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This was the second test of the Space Launch System’s engine in less than a week. On January 23, NASA completed the second test of the RS-25 engine, which will power the world’s most powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket during the Artemis-5 mission to the Moon. The test lasted approximately 8 minutes and was […]
The random nature of genetic mutations means that evolution is largely unpredictable. But recent research shows that this is not entirely true. If this is true, we will have to change our understanding of nature. This is reported by PNAS. Details of the opening A new study suggests that interactions between genes play a greater […]
Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have conducted aerial photography of the uninhabited volcanic island of the Zavadov Archipelago in the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. The goal was to study the largest penguin colony, numbering more than a million individuals. A group of six scientists arrived on the remote 25-square-kilometer […]
Climate warming and the concomitant development of the region may awaken pathogens that are older than the human species. Humanity may face a dangerous new pandemic due to zombie virus strains or Methuselah germs frozen in the Arctic permafrost, scientists warn. According to them, a new global emergency may be triggered not by some disease […]
RAM is one of the key components in many electronic devices, so manufacturers are constantly striving to improve it. Scientists from Tsinghua University in China have made a perhaps unusual and yet very big step in this direction – according to them, they have developed the first ever rare-metal RAM, called FlexRAM. The image published […]
Scientists have tied the smallest and tightest knot in history — their shamrock knot contains only 54 atoms. In 2020, chemists in China were able to create a chain of 69 atoms that intersected three times to form a shamrock knot with no free ends. Now, researchers from the University of Western Ontario in Canada […]
The difference between the life expectancy of women and men has been shrinking all over the world. This has happened due to improved living and working conditions, but scientists suggest that the difference will not disappear completely, given the biological differences between the sexes. The study was reported by New Scientist and published in the […]
Scientists have detected an asteroid that flew over the German capital before it burst into flames over the Earth. It has been possible to predict a collision with a celestial body only 8 times in history. The asteroid, named 2024 BXI, was first discovered by Hungarian astronomer Christian Sarnecki. He identified the space rock using […]
Zika virus may have the potential to treat certain types of cancer. Scientists have already confirmed their data during experiments and they showed impressive results. This is reported by Live Science. The results of the study were published in the medical journal Cancer Research Communications earlier this month. The scientists involved mice implanted with human […]
A recent NASA satellite photo taken over Canada provides a unique opportunity to look at the Aurora Borealis in infrared light. The image was acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the NASA/NOAA National Polar Orbiting Partnership satellite. The VIIRS instrument, sensitive to emission of faint light in a broad spectral […]