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[ad_1] “That fireball may seem like a grand finale, but for us it’s our alarm that tells us it’s not a drill.” The probe’s arrival on Earth is the culmination of 10 years of effort to bring back a sample of material from a 4.6 billion-year-old asteroid. The mission program …

[ad_1] Shape, color and brilliance. These are the three most salient visual characteristics of an object. Currently, 3D printers can reproduce shape and color reasonably well. The shine, however, remains a challenge. This is because 3D printing hardware is not designed to handle the different viscosities of paints that give …

[ad_1] The bow bay cover is installed on the Artemis I spacecraft in the final assembly and system test (FAST) cell inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 23 November 2020. It protects Orion’s top during the …

[ad_1] Shape, color and brilliance. These are the three most salient visual characteristics of an object. Currently, 3D printers can reproduce shape and color reasonably well. The shine, however, remains a challenge. This is because 3D printing hardware is not designed to handle the different viscosities of paints that give …

[ad_1] “In the 130 years that have passed since the triceratops was first unearthed, there have been perhaps four or five more specimens starting to approach the greatness, completeness and exceptional quality of conservation,” said Erich Fitzgerald, senior curator. of paleontology. “This one stands out ahead. It will be a …

[ad_1] A long time ago, all continents were crammed together in a large mass of land called Pangea. The Pangea broke apart about 200 million years ago, its pieces moved on the tectonic plates, but not permanently. The continents will come together again in the deep future. And a new …

[ad_1] China has landed a spacecraft on the moon to conduct the first mission to recover lunar samples in more than 40 years, the official Xinhua News agency said. Chang’e-5, which landed on Tuesday at the end, is preparing for about 48 hours of work on the lunar surface, Xinhua …

[ad_1] The Melbourne Museum will become the permanent home of the most complete triceratops skeleton in the world, with the “immense and unprecedented” $ 3 million acquisition of a 67 million year old dinosaur fossil. After two years of negotiations and due diligence, the Victorian government and Museums Victoria have …

[ad_1] For their growth, cells need various nutrients and vitamins. So-called solute carriers (SLCs), proteins capable of transporting these substances across the boundaries of cell membranes, play a central role in metabolism. Scientists from Giulio Superti-Furga’s research group at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy …

[ad_1] Credit: Arianespace After months of delays caused by problems with launch vehicles and the coronavirus pandemic, a Russian Soyuz rocket and the Fregat upper stage took off from South America and delivered the French-built Falcon Eye 2 military observation satellite on a Tuesday night. orbit on target for the …