[ad_1] (MENAFN – IANS) Khartoum, December 1 (IANS) Sudan Sovereign Council President Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed arrangements to remove the Northeast African country from the list of states sponsoring terrorism in the next weeks. During a phone call with Pompeo on Monday, they …
Read More »Poor air quality can increase the consequences of Covid-19: Study
[ad_1] (MENAFN – IANS) London, 29 Nov. (IANS) New research adds to the growing body of evidence that high levels of air pollution can amplify waves of contamination from SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19 disease. The study, published in the journal Earth Systems and Environment, investigated the possible interactions …
Read More »This galaxy survives a black hole party
[ad_1] (MENAFN – IANS) Washington, November 28 (IANS) Researchers have discovered a galaxy that managed to survive starvation of a black hole by continuing to give birth to new stars, about 100 stars the size of the Sun per year. The discovery of NASA’s telescope on a plane, the Stratospheric …
Read More »Pandemic curbs have reduced global NO2 concentrations by 20%: NASA
[ad_1] (MENAFN – IANS) New York, November 18 (IANS) Using computer models, NASA researchers found that since February, the pandemic restrictions of Covid-19 have reduced global concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by nearly 20%. Nitrogen dioxide is an air pollutant produced mainly by the combustion of fossil fuels used by …
Read More »Scientists have deciphered how Mars lost its water and continues to leak
[ad_1] (MENAFN – IANS) Washington, November 15 (IANS) Scientists have further decoded the phenomenon that caused Mars to lose the equivalent of a global ocean of water up to hundreds of feet deep in billions of years. Scientists using an instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft …
Read More »Scientists have deciphered how Mars lost its water and continues to leak
[ad_1] (MENAFN – IANS) Washington, November 15 (IANS) Scientists have further decoded the phenomenon that caused Mars to lose the equivalent of a global ocean of water up to hundreds of feet deep in billions of years. Scientists using an instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft …
Read More »Plumes on Europa could come from water in Jupiter’s lunar crust
[ad_1] (MENAFN – IANS) Washington, November 15 (IANS) According to new research, plumes of water vapor that could escape into space from Jupiter’s moon Europa could come from within the same ice crust. A model using images collected by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft outlines a process for brine, or salt-enriched water, …
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