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[ad_1] Not long after China’s Chang’e-5 lunar sampler was launched into space, an official working on the Chinese space program again mentioned the plan for a research base on the moon. “Chang’e-6, 7 and 8 will be gradually realized,” said Xu Hongliang, general secretary of the China National Space Administration …

[ad_1] The question of whether a 7-million-year-old primate nicknamed “Toumai” walked on two or four legs has sparked drama among paleontologists, complete with a missing femur. From the discovery of Sahelanthropus tchadensis’s first fossil in 2001, it has often been cited as our first known hominin ancestor. Initial analysis suggested …

[ad_1] Astronomy milestone: Researchers first discovered neutrinos from the Sun’s so-called CNO cycle, a fusion reaction predicted 82 years ago. Protons do not dissolve directly, but bind to helium through the catalysis of heavy elements such as carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. The first direct evidence of this CNO cycle has …

[ad_1] View inside the Borexino detector. Credit: Borexino Collaboration Neutrinos give the first experimental evidence of dominant catalyzed fusion in many stars An international team of about 100 Borexino Collaboration scientists, including particle physicist Andrea Pocar of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, reports in Nature neutrino detection from the sun …

[ad_1] Taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, this image of the moon is part of the collection of … [+] the highest resolution and near global topographic maps of the moon ever created. Superimposed on this image are some of the hotspots identified for cosmological telescopes on the moon; few …

[ad_1] Taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, this image of the moon is part of the collection of … [+] the highest-resolution, near-global topographic maps of the moon ever created. Superimposed on this image are some of the hotspots identified for cosmological telescopes on the moon; few ideal locations for …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: SpaceX will continue beta testing its Starlink satellite broadband service next year, the company said on Tuesday at the end, with no commercial service likely to be offered in 2020. Elon Musk, a privately held space research company based in Hawthorne, Hawthorne, California, has launched approximately 900 Starlink …

[ad_1] SpaceX will continue beta testing of its Starlink satellite broadband service into the next year, the company said on Tuesday at the end, indicating that the commercial service would likely not be offered in 2020 as previously planned. Hawthorne, California, SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private space exploration company, has launched …

[ad_1] Scientists were surprised by the genome sequencing of 16 wheat species. One of the most cultivated and oldest crops in the world, wheat is a genetically strange plant with 10 times more fertility genes than other cereal crops. While putting the building blocks of wheat on paper during the …

[ad_1] Earth is the only planet that we know contains life. Is our planet special? Scientists over the years have mulled over which factors are essential or useful for life. The answers will help us identify other potentially inhabited planets elsewhere in the galaxy. To understand what conditions were like …