[ad_1] Jesse Reimink, assistant professor of geosciences at Penn State, is part of a team of researchers who used the mineral zircon to help understand how Earth’s continents formed billions of years ago. Credit: Penn State Geoscientists have long known that parts of continents formed deep in the Earth’s past, …
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Read More »NASA News: Hubble Captures “Monstrous Black Hole” 13 Million Light Years Away | Science | news
[ad_1] “The outer ring, located about 700 light years from the center, appears mostly red and is home to tremendous bursts of star formation. “A never-before-seen inner ring visible within the green disc is only 130 light years from the center.” The nostalgic look at one of Hubble’s most famous …
Read More »NASA will nominate companies selected to raise lunar resources under the Artemis program
[ad_1] screen_shot_2020-12-01_at_2.04.57_pm.png NASA is taking a major step forward in its lunar exploration goals by selecting commercial companies to harvest lunar resources as part of the Artemis program. Credits: NASA NASA will hold a media conference call on Thursday, December 3 at 1:00 PM EST to announce the companies it …
Read More »The wild ancestor of the tomato is a genomic reservoir for plant growers
[ad_1] The fruits of Solanum pimpinellifolium, the wild ancestor of modern cultivated tomatoes, are about the size of blueberries. Credit: Scott Peacock and the CM Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center. Thousands of years ago, people in South America began domesticating Solanum pimpinellifolium, a herbaceous plant with small, intense flavor fruits. …
Read More »Scientists Fear No Deal Brexit Nears Deadline | Science
[ad_1] DAVIDE BONAZZI / SALZMANART By Cathleen O’Grady1 December 2020, 15:20 Brexit is set to become a reality, but its likely consequences for researchers are still emerging. The UK left the European Union on January 31, but remained part of the EU trade and travel deals while the final Brexit …
Read More »For people with certain BRCA mutations, activating the immune system could be a promising treatment
[ad_1] Credit: Public Domain Unsplash / CC0 Treatments that use the immune system to fight cancer have greatly improved outcomes for some people with cancer. Scientists are learning more about why some people respond so much better than others to these drugs. One major factor is something called tumor mutation …
Read More »Reading the Rocks: Investigating Martian Meteorites
[ad_1] Scientists are studying Martian meteorites to better understand the structure and geological history of the Red Planet. Scientists such as Geoffrey Howarth, a geologist at the University of Cape Town, are studying Martian meteorites to better understand the structure and geological history of the Red Planet. Here’s what we …
Read More »The Arecibo Observatory telescope collapses in Puerto Rico months after the cables snap
[ad_1] A huge Arecibo radio telescope already damaged in Puerto Rico completely collapsed after its 900-tonne receiving platform fell onto the reflector dish below. Key points: The telescope was closed earlier this month after a main cable broke Scientists had used the telescope to study pulsars to detect gravitational waves …
Read More »A mysterious object flying to Earth could be a 1960s rocket
[ad_1] Astronomy enthusiasts eager to get a glimpse of what might be a piece of space junk from a 1960s NASA mission are in luck. An object called 2020 SO – which was captured last month by the Earth’s gravitational pull during its solar orbit – is expected to arrive …
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