The discovery, published in Science, was led by Marco Delbo from the Côte d'Azur Observatory (OCA) in Nice, France. Using data from NASA’s WISE satellite in orbit, they studied various groups of asteroids located in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The case may offer fresh clues to what makes long-term remission possible. In most people living with HIV who stop taking drugs, the virus comes roaring back within weeks. If long drug holidays were possible, it could simplify people’s lives, slash the costs of treatment, and reduce long-term side effects. And the research into what some call "sustained viral remission" could help inform the search for a complete cure.
For nearly 2 decades, cosmologists have known that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, as if some mysterious "dark energy" is blowing it up like a balloon. Just what dark energy is remains one of the biggest mysteries in physics.
Astronomers have pinpointed the location of an enigmatic celestial object that spits out brief, but powerful, blasts of radio waves. Surprisingly, the source of these intermittent signals lies not in a bright galaxy but in a small, dim one, some 2.5 billion light-years from Earth.
From the released images so far, the new smart phone is code-named Mercury. Steve Cistulli, TCL's General Manager for North America, has already started teasing the phone on his social media account.