[ad_1] A Chinese spacecraft has departed from the moon, carrying pieces of its surface. It will be the first time lunar rocks have been returned to Earth in decades, and marks a major step forward in China’s mission to get people to the moon and travel further into the solar …
Read More »The first Arab country to authorize the emergency use of the Pfizer vaccine
[ad_1] The Bahrain News Agency said: “The National Authority for the Regulation of Professions and Health Services today approved the emergency use of the vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and Biontech against Coronavirus (Covid-19), making the I reign as the second country in the world to authorize the use of this …
Read More »NASA astronauts grow radishes in SPACE for the first time aboard the International Space Station
[ad_1] Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have added a new item to the dinner menu: radishes. NASA astronauts recently harvested fresh radish plants from the station’s Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) and Vegetable Production System (Veggie), which use LED lights to stimulate plant growth. Kate Rubins pulled 20 of the …
Read More »Jupiter and Saturn will appear together as a bright Christmas week as a “double planet”
[ad_1] According to astronomers, the two largest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, will appear closer to each other in the night sky during the week of Christmas than at any time in the past 800 years. Both gas giants have gradually moved closer to each other since …
Read More »NASA confirms that “asteroid” spotted above Earth was actually a rocket from the 1960s
[ad_1] NASA confirmed that an object identified by its asteroid-hunting facilities was actually something else. The object, known as the 2020 SO, is actually a Centaur rocket from the 1960s, the space agency said. It likely made its way into space with the 1966 Surveyor 2 mission – which was …
Read More »Laser-guided electronic acceleration optimization
[ad_1] Credit: Public Domain CC0 The interaction between laser and matter is at the forefront of new investigations into fundamental physics, as well as providing a potential foundation for new technological innovations. One of the initiatives leading this investigation is the Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) project. Here the …
Read More »Detection of solar neutrinos with the Borexino experiment
[ad_1] Neutrinos are uncharged particles with a mass about one millionth of that of an electron that are created by the nuclear processes that take place in the Sun and other stars. These particles are often colorfully described as the “ghosts” of the particle zoo because they interact so weakly …
Read More »China becomes the second nation to plant the flag on the moon
[ad_1] The lander has deployed a Chinese flag China planted its flag on the moon, more than 50 years after the United States first planted the stars and stripes there. Images from China’s National Space Administration show the five-star red flag hovering over the windless lunar surface. They were taken …
Read More »Simplifying long-range quantum interactions in many-body systems
[ad_1] Figure 1: Modeling of long-range entanglement in quantum many-body systems is made easier by assuming the law of area. Credit: Tony Melov / Science Photo Library Calculations for some quantum systems whose parts interact over long distances will be much easier to perform thanks to the work of a …
Read More »If this pandemic teaches us a lesson, it will be to think more carefully about who to sneeze | Coronavirus
[ad_1] II felt like everyone hunkered down for a long discussion based on the idea that the vaccine was years away. “It’s a distant dream, so we should learn to live with death” was one side, the other was: “Or maybe we could learn to live with this completely different …
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