WASHINGTON (AP) – US labs are undergoing a plethora of coronavirus tests, creating processing delays that experts say are undermining the response to the pandemic. With the US infection count of 3.9 million on Wednesday and new cases on the rise, bottlenecks are creating problems for workers who are out …
Read More »China is about to launch a trio of spacecraft to Mars, including a rover
In early July 23, China is slated to launch its most ambitious space mission to date, sending a trio of spacecraft to Mars, including a rover to explore the planet’s surface. If successful, China will become the second nation to land and operate a rover on the Red Planet. The …
Read More »Paleontologists discover part of baby dinosaur’s jawbone in Arctic Alaska
DALLAS – After years of searching the Arctic Alaska, scientists at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas discovered the fragment of a baby dinosaur’s small jaw, providing what they believe is a significant clue to the behavior of certain dinosaurs. . The theory: Some carnivorous dinosaurs, called dromaeosaurs, lived year-round …
Read More »Meteors more massive than the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth 800 million years ago
About 800 million years ago, a flurry of little ones asteroids it strucked with Moon, hitting the lunar surface with groups of craters. But the moon was not the only victim of this cosmic bombardment. If the moon experienced multiple asteroid strikes during this time, its close neighbor and parent …
Read More »The WISE In NEOWISE: How a Hibernating Satellite Awoke to Discover the Comet
In the last few weeks, the media has been full of talks about NEOWISE, one of the brightest and most spectacular comets that has ever passed through our solar system and that can still see if it rushes. While the excitement for this interstellar traveler is more than justified, it …
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