Dust was long considered the bane of astronomers, blocking off light and hiding away objects they wanted to observe. But with the advent of infrared astronomy, researchers found that dust is not a du… [+2684 chars]
NASA is set to launch a probe the size of a tennis court to the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter this year; where the remnants of the early solar system circle the sun. After the … [+3202 chars]
NASA's Lucy probe has gained a ninth asteroid destination for its 12-year mission. Lucy launched in October 2021 and is bound for the Trojan asteroids, which, thanks to the pull of Jupiter's imm… [+2294 chars]
Made to last just five years, the two Voyager spacecraft are still pushing through the vacuum of space, representing humanity beyond the influence of the Sun. Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launch… [+2446 chars]
SpaceX's second Falcon 9 launch was a success. The independent aerospace agency previously announced that it would conduct three consecutive spaceflights before June ends. The first one was a succ… [+2374 chars]
A celestial workhorse and its dedicated team of astronomers are at it again by delivering a hypnotic new image of a globular cluster and its infinite depth of stars. But while a new image from the H… [+2317 chars]
ByCornell UniversityJune 19, 2022 A recent study shows that taking 500 milligrams of the nutrient choline helps the body more effectively metabolize an omega 3 fatty acid that is crucial for the fet… [+5189 chars]
Ballinalee was the place to be last Sunday afternoon as crowds gathered for the first Connemara Pony Show to take place since 2019.Local Cllr Colin Dalton praised the Pony Show Committee for what he … [+640 chars]
Hello and welcome to yet another This Week on iTP rundown, where we list the top stories from the past week. Before we get started, we just want to which all the daddies, dads, papas, fathers, and po… [+2680 chars]
Pantoea agglomerans is primarily an environmental and agricultural organism that rarely causes disease in healthy individuals. We present a case of P. agglomerans bacteremia in an immunocompetent fou… [+8632 chars]
It is not unusual to spot clouds hovering over at least part of the largest inland body of water on the planet, the Caspian Sea. but on May 28, NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (M… [+1809 chars]
Cataclysm: Artists illustration of two merging neutron stars. (Courtesy: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet) Physicists have created a framework for better understanding the super-dense ma… [+5127 chars]
