[ad_1] You can cast your vote until May 7 for this year’s nominees, which include six JPL websites and social media efforts. The Rolling Stones on Mars, the reactions of the astronauts for their GIF and Moon Tunes collection: NASA social media and websites spanned the virtual universe in 2020, …
Read More »UK rejected offer of 10,000 tests a day four weeks ago | World News
[ad_1] The UK government rejected the opportunity to purchase tens of thousands of potentially “game-changing” coronavirus tests from an award-winning British scientist just days after Matt Hancock promised to reach 100,000 tests per day in late April. As the UK appears to miss its target, The Guardian may reveal that …
Read More »The largest ozone hole over the Arctic suddenly closed
[ad_1] In a bizarre fact, the largest hole in the ozone layer ever recorded over the Arctic suddenly closed a few weeks after scientists announced its existence. According to details, the unusually large hole in the ozone layer formed earlier this year and peaked in March, about 11 miles above …
Read More »Astronomers find a long-term gas giant around Kepler-88 | Astronomy
[ad_1] Using the Echelle High Resolution Spectrometer Instrument (HIRES) on the Keck I 10m Telescope at W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have discovered a giant planet in the Kepler-88 system. An artistic illustration of the Kepler-88 planetary system. Image credit: Adam Makarenko / W.M. Keck Observatory. Kepler-88, also known as KOI-142, …
Read More »NASA mobilizes staff to develop new technologies to help fight coronavirus
[ad_1] NASA announced that it has mobilized some of its best minds to apply research and ingenuity to combat the coronavirus. The US space agency showed a variety of devices to President Donald Trump, including a pressure helmet and a surface decontamination system, along with a fan. The technologies come …
Read More »New fine-structure constant measurements suggest laws of nature that are not as constant as previously thought | Astronomy, physics
[ad_1] The fine structure constant is a measure of electromagnetism, one of the four fundamental forces in nature; the others are gravity, weak nuclear force, and strong nuclear force. In an article published in the magazine. Scientific advances, a team of researchers reported that four new light measurements emitted by …
Read More »Molecularly Engineered Metal Coordination Interactions for Strong, Resilient, and Fast Recovery Hydrogels
[ad_1] Engineering of cooperativity, binding constants and molecular mechanism of metal ion coordination interactions at the molecular level to support loads. (A) The metal ion coordination complexes formed by individual ligands (PH1, left) are dynamic and weak. When a metal chelation site is formed from multiple ligands (PH3, medium), the …
Read More »Scientists brought us one step closer to a living computer.
[ad_1] The researchers used light exposure to impress a complex pattern (the former UC San Diego Geisel Library … [+] logo, spread across an area slightly smaller than the thickness of a human hair) in a biofilm community. Suel Lab, UC San Diego Sounds like something straight out of science …
Read More »Emirates Mars Mission: Hope Probe Ready for launch from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center
[ad_1] Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – (COMMERCIAL WIRE) – The UAE Space Agency and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center announced the safe transfer of the Mars Hope spacecraft to its launch site at the Tanegashima Space Center. The transfer was made in an 83-hour operation ahead of its …
Read More »4 billion-year-old nitrogen-containing organic material discovered in Martian meteorite
[ad_1] Martian meteorites are pieces of the surface of Mars that were impacted in space by meteorite impacts, and that eventually reached Earth. They give bits of knowledge to Martian history. One such meteorite is Allan Hills (ALH) 84001, named for the Antarctic region found in 1984, it is especially …
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