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[ad_1] Tokyo, November 4th Research on mice sent to the International Space Station (ISS) has helped scientists identify a protein that appears to play an important role in the aging process, suggests a joint study by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Tohoku University. The research showed that the …

[ad_1] This was a record week for global hurricanes as powerful storms hit both the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean basins, leaving scientists wondering if they are harbingers of a more destructive climate-warmed future or if they are outliers that put limits to the test, but they remain within the realm …

[ad_1] This year, persistent cold and strong circumpolar winds (also known as the polar vortex) contributed to the formation of a large and deep Antarctic ozone hole, just a year after scientists recorded that 2019 was the smaller since the ozone hole was discovered in 1982, according to a report …

[ad_1] The planet between Saturn and Uranus was “ ejected from the Solar System ” in its infancy, displacing the ice giants in new orbits around the sun US researchers have run 6,000 models of the evolution of the solar system They identified the pattern that best explained the orbital …

[ad_1] The discovery that coral-eating starfish are early risers and feed mostly at night could help slow the decline of the Great Barrier Reef and other shallow-water corals already ravaged by global warming, scientists reported Wednesday. Crown-of-thorns starfish suck color and life from corals, a favorite food, but in a …

[ad_1] 3-D: Short for three-dimensional. This term is an adjective for something that has characteristics that can be described in three dimensions: height, width and length. astronaut: Someone trained to travel to space for research and exploration. cell: The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism. Typically too small …

[ad_1] Of the thousands of constraints and design decisions to consider when building a robot, the way it moves is perhaps one of the most fundamental. The method of motion limits the design and use case of the robot perhaps more than any other parameter. A team of Texas A&M …

[ad_1] A distant asteroid following the gravitational trail of Mars has been observed in more detail than ever, and the foreground reveals a striking similarity, which raises some interesting questions about the object’s ancient origins. The asteroid in question, named (101429) 1998 VF31, is part of a group of Trojan …

[ad_1] How long have mammals been social creatures? At least on the late Cretaceous side of the dinosaur era, according to a new study, which reports the first evidence of the behavior around 10 million years old. Studying fossils of the small rodent Filikomys primaevus (meaning “young and friendly mouse”) …

[ad_1] Astronomers have discovered the most inhospitable planet ever that rains rocks, with seas of lava 60 miles deep and winds of over 3,000 mph. The Earth-sized planet has twenty four times the speed of sound with temperatures around 3,000 degrees Celsius on one side, hot enough to vaporize the …