Here's a pretty cool way to explore Earth's final frontier - Nuytco’s Exosuit, which keeps its inhabitants at surface atmosphere even when they're more than 300 metres below the surface. This $600,000 suit has already been worn by divers to repair the New York City water supply pipes and it'll soon be used to check for oil pipeline leaks off Dubai. It's even got thrusters and an optional hook hand too, just to make it extra cool.
Snakes don't need a plane! A new study has found that some Southeast Asian rainforest snakes can remain airborne for up to 30 metres. They can launch themselves from any position on a tree, stretching and flattening their bodies from a circle shape into an arched semi-circle, looking kind of like a UFO in the process. It's a great way to move around their treetop home and escape from predators.
Trials have revealed that Muller glia cells taken from the back of donated human eyes can restore some vision to completely blind rats. Muller glia cells can transform into the specialised cells in the eye and could be used to treat a wide range of sight disorders. In humans, the improvement would not provide vision enough to read, but would lead to improved quality of life, according to the researchers.
Andromeda
is headed our way at around 120km/second and is predicted to collide
with the Milky Way galaxy in three or four billion years. The result, if
anybody is around to see it, will be beautiful. As there's so much
empty space and such large distances between stars, the two galaxies
will pass through each other first and it's very unlikely any stars will
collide, but dust and clouds will, meaning the rate of star creation
will be greatly boosted and supernovae will become more common.
