Parkinson’s disease may start in the appendix, not the brain. People are less likely to get the condition if they had their appendix out decades previously. And a toxic compound found in the brains of people with this disease has now been spotted in the appendix.
NASA’s elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope’s demise Tuesday.
Already well past its expected lifetime, the 9 1/2-year-old Kepler had been running low on fuel for months. Its ability to point at distant stars and identify possible alien worlds worsened dramatically at the beginning of October, but flight controllers still managed to retrieve its latest observations. The telescope has now gone silent, its fuel tank empty.
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-kepler-telescope-dead-thousands-worlds.html
Very high Acqua alta in Venice, northeast Italy today, October 29. Report via Enrico Stomeo.
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The James Webb Space Telescope is in final stages of testing and there are four other new space telescopes in the planning stages.
We live in an amazing time when events like this are documented. So simple, yet so powerful to behold.