Starlink satellites: What are they for – What is SpaceX’s Starlink constellation? | Science | News

[ad_1] Starlink satellites have been appearing late at night in fast-moving trains resembling stars on the move. Stargazers and astronomers have reported the unusual sight up and down the country, sometimes seeing dozens of Starlink satellites at once. To date, SpaceX has launched a total of 422 Starlink satellites into orbit. One person from London … Read more

Scientists discover how the soil closes fatal wounds

[ad_1] Credit: Pixabay. A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia has shown for the first time that soil silicates promote blood clotting, quickly closing potentially fatal wounds. “Soil is not simply our matrix for growing food and building materials. Here we discovered that soil can actually help control bleeding after injury by … Read more

Rural areas near large cities are less vulnerable to disasters.

[ad_1] Rural populations living in large cities have better access to resources and are therefore less vulnerable to disasters than rural communities located near small cities, suggests a new study in Punjab province of Pakistan. About 70 percent of the Punjab population, home to 110 million people, is vulnerable to various disasters, but particularly to … Read more

Fighting the invisible enemy: what these coronavirus images reveal

[ad_1] Updated April 28, 2020 10:31:05 For more than two decades, Dr. Jason Roberts has been routinely observing underworld microscopes and observing the behaviors of some of nature’s deadliest nanometer-sized insurgents. Roberts, a senior scientist at the Victoria Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory in Melbourne, is also a virologist consultant to the Australian government’s polio eradication … Read more