NASA Releases Stunning 4K Video of International Space Station and other top stories.

• NASA Releases Stunning 4K Video of International Space Station

  Nov 02, 2016 05:02 AM EDT People often wonder what it feels like to be inside the International Space Station (ISS). A small, pressurized metallic abode floating in space that houses astronauts and tons of scientific instruments in microgravity. Now, people can experience that through a 4K stunning ultra HD video of the station released by NASA, the closest to the real thing people will get to experience. The Space Station Fisheye Fly-Through 4K (Ultra HD) video released by NASA on Oct. 27 sh..

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• Gilead was Great Once but is Now Awful and Depressing

  

  I want the old Gilead back! The present Gilead, with a stock down 27% for the year, trading at levels not seen since April 2014, is too sad to bear. Adam Feuerstein. Follow. Nov 2, 2016 6:20 AM EDT. Get TheStreet Quant Ratings' exclusive 5-page report ...

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• Biggest telescope may swap continents

  

  Image copyright TMT Image caption Artist's impression: How the huge telescope might look when built One of the world's biggest telescope projects might be forced to move its location.The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) was due to be built in Hawaii, but ran into opposition with indigenous groups which consider its proposed site sacred.Now the TMT's board says a site in the Canary Islands, Spain, could act as a potential alternative.The $1.4bn project wil..

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• Researchers reveal massive brine pool off the coast of New Orleans

  

  It is known as the 'jacuzzi of death' - and is one of the oddest places on the planet.Researchers first discovered a massive brine pool under the Gulf on Mexico in 2014 using a robosub.Now, they have returned to create the first high resolution map of the area - and say it could hold the key to finding life on other planets. Scroll down for video  The first high resolution map of the 'jacuzzi of despair' that kills almost anything that swims into it. The circular pool - about 100 feet in circumf..

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• NASA advisory committee questions SpaceX's unorthodox fueling process

  

  A NASA advisory committee has twice questioned SpaceX’s fueling process — a procedure that came under closer scrutiny after one of the company’s rockets exploded on a launch pad in September while being fueled.The group’s concerns — expressed before and after the explosion — show ongoing doubt with the Hawthorne company’s unorthodox fueling practice as it plans to transport astronauts to the International Space Station. Those worries, analysts say, aren’t likely to affect the company’s return t..

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• These bionic spinach plants can sniff out bombs

  

  VIDEO MIT researchers have engineered a bionic plant that can detect explosives and send a warning signal — without wires! — to scientists nearby. Talk about spinach as superfood, Popeye! In a new paper in the journal Nature Materials, the scientists explain how they can turn plants into bomb-sniffing machines with the help of tiny cylinders of carbon that can detect “nitroaromatics” — chemical compounds often used in explosives. As the plant absorbs air and groundwater from the environment aro..

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• New twist explains how a single giant impact could blast the moon into being

  

  The moon. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute) Four-and-a-half billion years ago, something humongous sideswiped our planet. The debris from the collision was tossed into the sky and eventually coalesced into a brand-new body that began following Earth around its orbit, mimicking Earth's spin as it circled tightly around it. Gradually, like a tiring partner in a very long dance, the smaller body began to slow down and drift away until it reached its current spot in space. For years, that has b..

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• Mysterious 'Alaskan Ice Monster' surfaces in Bureau of Land Managment video

  

  Alaska's Bureau of Land Management posted a perturbing video of what they dubbed the "Chena River Ice Monster" that quickly racked up speculation online. Days later, the office announced that it was most likely an ice-covered log and a frozen rope. (Bureau of Land Management - Alaska) There was something in the water in the Chena River in Fairbanks, Alaska. Two employees of the Alaskan Bureau of Land Management, Craig McCaa and Ryan Delaney, caught whatever it was video. It was big. Mayb..

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