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[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The sun appears to be much less active than similar stars in terms of brightness variations caused by sunspots and other phenomena, a “boring” personality, according to scientists, which may not be a bad thing for us Earthlings . FILE PHOTO: A medium-sized solar flare (M2) …

[ad_1] Washington, April 30 The first NASA helicopter on Mars has a name now and the credit goes to Vaneeza Rupani, a 17-year-old girl of Indian descent. Rupani, a high school student from Northport, Alabama, earned the honor of naming the helicopter after submitting her essay in NASA’s “Name the …

[ad_1] NASA asked. 56,000 votes decided. In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and the 20th anniversary of NASA’s Earth Observatory, the space agency invited the public to vote on the best images that capture our beautiful planet in the Earth Observatory collection. (The Earth Observatory is a …

[ad_1] Best Western Hotels & Resorts previously released improved cleaning protocols and breakfast standards in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but on Thursday announced a new, stricter program based on guidance provided by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. . USA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Environmental Protection …

[ad_1] IMAGE: Infrared (top left) and other images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed strange, bare places where the omnipresent moon dust is missing. The spots suggest an active tectonic process … see plus Credit: NASA PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – Researchers have discovered a system of ridges that extend …

[ad_1] IMAGE: Benjamin Keisling, at that time a Ph.D. from UMass Amherst. Student, did field work in Northeast Greenland at the East Greenland Ice Project (EGRIP) camp during his NSF GROW scholarship to … see plus Credit: UMass Amherst / B. Keisling AMHERST, Mass. – For years, geologists have debated …

[ad_1] A NEW estimate of how space rock should fall to Earth has been revealed each year, and it’s probably much more than you thought. A team of UK scientists focused on meteorites above 50g and think about 16,000kg annual rainfall on us. Manchester scientist Romain Tartèse with a meteorite …

[ad_1] Formation of a fast jet of water due to the interaction of two bubbles. Credit: Vicente Robles Two microscopic bubbles are better than one in penetrating soft materials, concludes a new study by engineers at the University of California, Riverside. Optical cavitation, which uses a laser to bubble into …

[ad_1] Pacific Yew Bark. Credit: Walter Siegmund / Wikimedia / CC BY 2.5 Scientists are one step closer to understanding how trees make the cancer drug Taxol. In a recent article published in the Biological Chemistry Magazine, a group of researchers led by Mark Lange of Washington State University, have …

[ad_1] This site can earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A new document suggests that there may be 19 asteroids, all part of the Centaurus family, that did not come from our own solar system. If this were proven to be true, it would …