[ad_1] Seeking to become the third country in the world to bring Moon samples to Earth, China is preparing to launch the Long March 5 Chang’e-5 rocket – and has already placed it on the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center platform. The expectation is that the take-off will take place next …
Read More »The Arecibo radio telescope, an icon of astronomy, has been lost
[ad_1] The National Science Foundation (NSF) will be deactivated Arecibo ObservatoryThe huge radio antenna after damage made the structure too dangerous to repair, the agency announced today (Nov.19). The announcement came from scientists awaited a verdict on the fate of the iconic observatory after the damage to the complex wiring …
Read More »4 Arab countries are on the list of highest cases and deaths in Corona in the eastern Mediterranean
[ad_1] The latest statistics of infections and deaths with the Coronavirus “Covid 19” in the countries of the eastern Mediterranean during the past week showed that 4 Arab countries were among the most affected by the epidemic. Today, Thursday, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Ahmed Al-Mandhari, announced that …
Read More »Angry caterpillars fight for food, “Hunger Games” style
[ad_1] We all know what it is like feel a little hungry. You haven’t eaten in hours, your stomach starts rumbling and you start getting a little nervous. Maybe you answer a co-worker or unexpectedly raise your voice in a conversation with loved ones. It can be a consolation to …
Read More »The legendary Arecibo telescope will close forever – scientists are wavering
[ad_1] One of the most famous telescopes in astronomy – the 305-meter-wide radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico – is permanently closing. Engineers can’t find a safe way to fix it after two cables supporting the structure suddenly and catastrophically broke, one in August and one in early November. It …
Read More »Faced with the collapse, the famous Arecibo Observatory will be demolished
[ad_1] Puerto Rico’s famed Arecibo Observatory, known for helping scientists peer into deep space and listen to distant radio waves, is set to be dismantled and demolished after engineers conclude the structure’s structure is at risk of collapse. While the teams attempt to salvage parts of the observatory, the decommissioning …
Read More »Researchers peer inside the deadly pathogen’s anti-theft kit
[ad_1] DURHAM, NC – The bacterium that causes tularemia, the tick-borne disease, is a lean and mean infecting machine. It carries a relatively small genome and a unique set of infectious tools, including a collection of chromosomal genes called the “island of pathogenicity”. A team of researchers from Duke University, …
Read More »Climate change has devastated the dinosaurs not once, but twice
[ad_1] Most people know that terrestrial dinosaurs were wiped out some 66 million years ago when an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed into Earth. If the explosive fireball didn’t catch them, the dip in global temperature on a planet with little or no ice – caused by …
Read More »Astronomy – Stars colliding | Scientific technology
[ad_1] November 21, 2020 T.HIS IMAGE shows the 5,000-year-old consequences of a merger between two stars, even though the light that created it took another 6,000 years to reach Earth’s vicinity. It was published in Nature this week by Keri Hoadley of the California Institute of Technology and her colleagues. …
Read More »Air leaks remain from the Russian module of the ISS – Science & Space
[ad_1] MOSCOW, November 19. / TAX /. The crack in the previously insulated intermediate chamber of the Zvezda module remains, cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov told Mission Control. Previously, the crew closed the hatches in the intermediate chamber. Mission Control asked if the crew measured the pressure before the hatch in that …
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