Science

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is headed for Mars. The country launched its first interplanetary mission yesterday (July 19) in an ambitious attempt to develop its science and technology sectors. the Emirates Mars Mission, also called Hope, took off from Japan after multiple delays due to bad weather and smoothly …

(Left) OIST’s Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit works with solar cells and modules of different sizes. (Right) In this study, the scientists worked with 5 cm x 5 cm solar modules. Credit: OIST Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have created next-generation solar …

Artist impression of the three spacecraft that China will send to Mars in the coming weeks. Astronomy of nature Sometime in late July (or early August, perhaps) a Long March 5 rocket will take off from the China Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on the island of Hainan in the South …

Scientists have identified 37 volcanic structures on Venus that appear to have been recently active, and probably still are today, painting the picture of a geologically dynamic planet and not a dormant world as previously thought. The research focused on ring-shaped structures called coronae, caused by a stream of hot …

John Beigel’s problem was that not enough Covid-19 people died. Not that he wanted them to, of course. It’s just that, as dire as the pandemic has been, it hasn’t killed as many people as it seemed. And Beigel, a researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, …