[ad_1] Kirsten Siebach has to persevere a little longer, waiting for her ship to arrive. That ship is in space and is carrying a rover called Perseverance to Mars. And Siebach, a Martian geologist at Rice University, is now one of 13 scientists recently selected by NASA to help run …
Read More »The 2020 Christmas sky will see Jupiter and Saturn in a rare dual planet alignment – Technology News, Firstpost
[ad_1] FP trend26 November 2020 9:04:18 IST Jupiter and Saturn will get closer to each other in Earth’s night sky than they have in nearly 800 years around Christmas this year. According to a Rice University statement, just after sunset on the evening of December 21, Jupiter and Saturn will …
Read More »Understanding the frustration could lead to better medications
[ad_1] Knowing exactly where proteins are frustrated could go a long way in making better drugs. This is one of the findings of a new study by Rice University scientists looking for mechanisms that stabilize or destabilize key sections of biomolecules. Atomic-scale models by rice theorist Peter Wolynes, lead author …
Read More »Former bottom piece of the Pacific Ocean taken deep beneath China
[ad_1] In a study that gives new meaning to the term “rock bottom,” seismic researchers discovered the underside of a rock slab of the Earth’s surface layer, or lithosphere, which was dragged more than 400 miles below north China. from the tectonic subduction process. A graph showing the convective heat …
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