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How to Boost Your Immune System With 5 Common Vitamins

Vitamin deficiencies can weaken your immune system. Boosting the levels through diet or supplements can help boost your immunity. Feeling under the weather? Worried about catching a bug the next time one begins to make its way through your family and friends? Post-pandemic, many people are realizing that their immune system could do with a boost. Our immune system is our first line of defense against the viruses and bacteria we encounter every day, so it pays to make sure yours is fighting fit, and one of the key ways to maintain immune health is by supplementing with immune-boosting vitamins…

NASA’s NuSTAR Mission Celebrates 10 Years Studying the X-Ray Universe

Lead Image: Artist’s concept of NuSTAR on orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This small but powerful space telescope has spent a decade of observing some of the hottest, densest, and most energetic regions in our universe — and still has more to see. Before NuSTAR launched in 2012, it promised to explore supermassive black holes hidden inside of galaxies. Now, a decade after launch, it has succeeded in illuminating black holes, as well as achieving many other cosmological discoveries. NuSTAR studies the universe in high-energy X-rays, detecting hard X-rays at energies of 5 to 80 kiloelectronvolts. This range in the electromagnetic spectrum…

Director Of The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Explains How They Did It

Lead Image: The Frontier supercomputer. OLCF at ORNL The world’s fastest supercomputer — called Frontier — is whizzing away in a national lab located in the foothills of East Tennessee. It’s the only machine in the world that has ever demonstrated that it could perform more than one quintillion (that’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second. In the language of computer science, that’s called an exaflop. Frontier’s project leader, Justin Whitt, told IE that his favorite way to explain the scale of his team’s achievement is to imagine if every single person on Earth could pull out a pen and paper and do one…

What Has Happened To The World’s Nuclear test sites?

Lead Image: An Artist’s impression of a nuclear blast on a city and the wave of destruction thereof. Nuclear Weapons are the pinnacle of our species’ ingenuity for large-scale devastation. While large proportions of their development could occur on paper and under lab conditions, the time soon came when real bombs would need to be field-tested. To this end, most of today’s nuclear powers have conducted hundreds of nuclear tests in various remote locations worldwide, taking place over decades. Thankfully, most of this testing ceased entirely in the late 1990s, with countries like India, China, and Pakistan not detonating another…

“Viral Dark Matter” Could Help Mitigate Climate Change – Here’s How

Lead Image: Recently scientists uncovered a treasure trove of new data about RNA viruses in the ocean including 5,500 new RNA virus species. Analysis suggests that a small portion of them had “stolen” genes from organisms they infected, which helps identify their functions in marine processes. Several may help drive carbon absorbed from the atmosphere to permanent storage on the ocean floor. Study identifies 1,200+ RNA viruses with connections to carbon flux. Many scientists believe that climate change is a significant threat and that we are running out of time left to act. On top of that, new research shows…