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Cold plasma can kill coronavirus on common surfaces in seconds

[ad_1] Wirz / UCLA Research Group The cold atmospheric plasma device that treats metal samples. The bluish glow is caused by the presence of excited air molecules. UCLA engineers and scientists have shown that cold atmospheric plasma treatments at room temperature can kill the coronavirus present on a variety of …

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Equatorial space stations

[ad_1] A space station is thought of as an orbital vehicle capable of supporting one or more humans for a long period of time. These generally lack the main propulsion, reentry and landing systems. These vehicles have docking ports to allow rendezvous and docking of other spacecraft for the purposes …

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A disk that forms a planet still powered by the mother cloud

[ad_1] Star systems such as our own form within interstellar clouds of gas and dust that collapse producing young stars surrounded by protoplanetary disks. Planets form within these protoplanetary disks, leaving clear gaps, which have recently been observed in evolved systems when the mother cloud was eliminated. ALMA has now …

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Here I am looking at you, MKID

[ad_1] In the years since astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system, more than 4,000 have been observed. Usually, their presence is revealed by the slight effects they have on their parent stars, which cloud them enormously. For a decade and a …

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Fly to Jupiter in a video from NASA’s Juno mission

[ad_1] How about taking a ride on the Juno mission and seeing Jupiter up close without leaving home? This is what NASA proposes with the video of the last flyby of its spacecraft on the largest planet in the Solar System, published in October. The recording, which lasts just over …

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