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[ad_1] A joint US-Europe satellite, built to monitor global sea levels, took off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base just after 9:00 am Pacific time on November 21, 2020. About the size of a small pickup truck , Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will extend a nearly …

[ad_1] Mechanical engineer Michael Gollner and his graduate student, Sriram Bharath Hariharan, of the University of California, Berkeley, recently visited NASA’s John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. There, they dropped burning objects into a deep pit and studied how fire vortices form in microgravity conditions. The Glenn Center …

[ad_1] United States ally ready to equip itself with modern military GPS equipment Press release from: Los Angeles Air Force Base Published: Monday 23 November 2020 On September 30, the Space Production Corps of the Center for Missile and Space Systems hit a major milestone when the Global Positioning System …

[ad_1] A multi-institutional team co-led by a Cornell University researcher has identified the genetic mechanisms that enable the production of a deadly toxin called Victorin, the causative agent of oat blight, a disease that wiped out oat crops in the United States. United in the 1940s. Victoria blight is caused …

[ad_1] Composite image of the moth Antheraea pernyi (top) and the butterfly Graphium agamemnon (bottom) showing photographs on the left and ultrasound (tomography) on the right. Notice how moth wings have weaker echoes (acoustic image) than butterfly wings.Marc Holderied and Thomas Neil False color 3D representation of a 0.21 mm …

[ad_1] Two teams of scientists have resolved a longstanding controversy over the origins of complex life on Earth. The joint studies found that molecular fossils extracted from 635-million-year-old rocks are not the earliest evidence of animals, but instead common algae. Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU), Max Planck Institute …

[ad_1] The spiral-shaped disc of stars and planets is being pulled, twisted and deformed with extreme violence by the gravitational force of a smaller galaxy: the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Scientists believe that the LMC crossed the Milky Way’s border about 700 million years ago – recent by cosmological standards …

[ad_1] The largest aggregation of fish ever recorded in the depths of the abyssal sea was discovered by a team of oceanographers from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa (UH, USA), the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI, USA) and the National Oceanography Center (NOC, United Kingdom). Their findings were …

[ad_1] The lead author, Dr. Sridhar Ravi, studied the way bumblebees sailed through a tunnel with a series of gates with holes of different sizes. The bees were able to successfully fly through the openings, thanks to a remarkable sense of their own size and a detailed perception of obstacle …

[ad_1] The spacecraft will arrive on Earth with a precious cargo – at least 100 milligrams of material collected from the surface of the asteroid “Ryugu”. The capsule with the cargo will fall to Earth, but the probe itself will continue its way into space. According to Science Alert, the …