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A strange yellow spider-like creature with four almost black eyes and large bulbous claws was pulled from the depths of the ocean near Antarctica. The never-before-seen animal, a sea spider, is a distant relative of horseshoes and arachnids that live on the ocean floor, eat with a straw-like proboscis instead of a mouth, and breathe […]
On December 14, China launched its secret reusable spaceplane on its third-ever mission, Space.com reports. A Long March 2F rocket with a spaceplane on board was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The mission will conduct scientific experiments in space. Little is known about the Chinese reusable spaceplane Shenlong, or “Divine Dragon.” It is […]
On Thursday, December 14, a NASA spacecraft detected a huge pulse of energy radiation. The sun has released the most powerful flare since September 2017. About this he writes Space.com. “The flare, which occurred at 12:02 a.m., is registered as X2.8, making it the most powerful solar flare since September 2017,” the report said. Sun […]
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, which carries the X-37B reusable unmanned spacecraft, has been unable to launch for the third day in a row. What’s the problem? Initially, the launch was scheduled for December 11, but SpaceX postponed the launch due to a problem in the ground system and rescheduled it for the evening of the […]
The researchers described the remains of ancient sea “dragons” that are surprisingly well preserved – predatory underwater reptiles of mososaurs. The fossil, named Wakayama Soryu, meaning blue dragon, was discovered in Wakayama Prefecture in 2006. This is the most complete mosasaur skeleton ever discovered in the Northwest Pacific. Study co-author Akihiro Misaki of the University […]
A new video published by the agency shows the Orion spacecraft re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 11 kilometers per second, which is 32 times the speed of sound. The footage was shot as part of the Artemis-1 mission last year and became one of the most impressive of the entire year. A […]
A new study has demonstrated the prospects of combining human brain cells with computers. Live neurons learned faster than artificial models and demonstrated almost identical results. With the help of stem cells, researchers were able to create a colony of cells that replicate the structure of neural connections and neurons in the human brain. The […]
iSpace continues to test the new Hyperbola-2 rocket. Within a few weeks, the Chinese company organized two jump tests. The first test of Hyperbola-2 took place at the beginning of last month. The second test took place a few days ago. The rocket was able to climb to an altitude of 343.12 meters, after which […]
In the UK, paleontologists have recovered a giant skull of a marine reptile pliosaurus, which lived in the ocean about 150 million years ago, from the Jurassic rocks on the coast of Dorset, BBC reports. It is noted that the length of the found skull is about 2 meters. “This is one of the best […]
Blue Origin plans to resume launches of the reusable spacecraft for suborbital flights New Shepard next week after a 15-month break. The pause was due to an investigation by US regulators into the failed launch of the ship last September. The first mission will be unmanned. “We are targeting the launch window that opens on […]