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[ad_1] For the first time in more than seven months, NASA has praised its Voyager 2 probe in intercellular space. On Thursday, October 29, Weiser 2 handlers showed a series of probe commands to the spacecraft using the Deep Space Station 43 (DSS 43) radio antenna in Canberra, Australia. Travel …

[ad_1] On November 2, 2020, the International Space Station celebrated its 20th anniversary of continued human occupation. With astronauts and cosmonauts from all over the world working together, the ISS has demonstrated humanity’s ability not only to live and work in space, but also to cooperate with each other. This …

[ad_1] Spacelab 2020 Last week, the US Air Force opened a new $ 4 million laboratory that will study and produce new materials for use in spacecraft. The launches are risky, with NASA estimating that nearly a quarter of small satellite missions have failed in the past few decades. The …

[ad_1] The desert city AlUla sits in a fertile oasis valley that has welcomed civilizations for more than 200,000 years. AlUla is best known among archaeological circles for Saudi Arabia’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Nabataean Tombs of Hegra. However, more than 27,000 other sites of archaeological interest have …

[ad_1] Of ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies November 4, 2020 A close up of a crown of thorns starfish. The creatures eat Acropora corals until they are actually homeless. Credit: Morgan Pratchett A world-first study of the Great Barrier Reef shows …

[ad_1] Fortunately for spiders, millennia of evolution have made spidroins versatile. Proteins, Dr. Rising explained, are structured like rockers: a long messy rope covered at each end by a bolt-like blob. In the silk glands, these rockers are thought to naturally mate at one end, creating V-shaped duets that move …

[ad_1] Since 2007, astronomers have known about a type of interstellar phenomenon called fast radio bursts, or FRBs for short. They are light emissions of radio waves that can generate more than 100 million times the power of the sun in a matter of milliseconds. Until recently, they were only …

[ad_1] The food preparation preferences of Chinese cooks – such as the technological choice of boiling or steaming cereals instead of grinding them or turning them into flour – have had continental consequences for the adoption of new crops in prehistoric China, according to a Washington research. University of St. …

[ad_1] A flash of luck helped astronomers solve a cosmic mystery: What causes powerful but fleeting radio bursts that dart and zigzag across the universe? Scientists have known about these energy pulses – called fast radio bursts – for about 13 years and have seen them come from outside our …

[ad_1] That discovery was particularly exciting. One of his collaborators kept finding bullet points, Dr. Haas said, and then a collection of points and other stone tools, with the remains of a skeleton. The excavator group was thrilled, he said, and the gist of the conversation was, “Oh, he must …