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WEBX-ray Pulses from Nuclear Explosions Can Deflect Dangerous Asteroids, Researchers Say. Around 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid impact triggered mass extinction, mega-tsunamis and a spell of global warming that lasted for around 100,000 years. Although NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission demonstrated that …
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WEB5 days ago · Sep 27, 2024 by News Staff. Ceres is a key object in understanding the evolution of small bodies and is the only dwarf planet to have been orbited by a spacecraft, NASA’s Dawn mission. Dawn data paint an inconclusive picture of Ceres’ internal structure, composition and evolutionary pathway. New research shows that a crust with nearly 90% ...
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WEB5 days ago · Sep 27, 2024 by News Staff. Sea robins are unusual ocean fish that possess specialized leg-like appendages used to ‘walk’ along the sea floor. New research shows that these appendages aren’t just used for walking; in fact, they are bona fide sensory organs used to find buried prey while digging. Lepidotrigla papilio.
Scientists Discover Impenetrable Barrier 11,500 km above Earth
WEBNov 27, 2014 · Next ». A group of researchers headed by Prof Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has discovered a nearly impenetrable barrier some 11,500 km above our planet that blocks so-called ‘killer electrons,’ which can fry satellites and degrade space systems during intense solar storms.
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WEB2 days ago · Sep 24, 2024 by News Staff. Around 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid impact triggered mass extinction, mega-tsunamis and a spell of global warming that lasted for around 100,000 years. Although NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission demonstrated that near-Earth objects can be successfully targeted, …
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WEBSep 20, 2024 · Researchers Store Entire Human Genome on ‘Everlasting’ 5D Memory Crystal. Sep 20, 2024 by News Staff. Unlike other data storage formats that degrade over time, 5D memory crystals can store up to 360 terabytes of information without loss for billions of years, even at high temperatures, according to a team of scientists at the …
Collision between Milky Way and Its Satellite May Have Triggered ...
WEBMay 26, 2020 · The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy is an elliptical loop-shaped galaxy that is currenly located 78,300 light-years away. “It is known from existing models that Sagittarius fell into the Milky Way three times — first about 5 or 6 billion years ago, then about 2 billion years ago, and finally one billion years ago,” said Dr. Tomás Ruiz-Lara, an astronomer …
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WEBSep 26, 2024 by News Staff. Astronomers using the Keck II 10-m telescope have discovered evidence for an Earth-mass planet and a brown dwarf orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet has a mass of 1.9 Earth masses and orbits the white dwarf at a distance of 2.1 AU (astronomical units) — about twice the distance between the Earth and Sun.
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WEBSep 24, 2024 by News Staff. Around 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid impact triggered mass extinction, mega-tsunamis and a spell of global warming that lasted for around 100,000 years. Although NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission demonstrated that near-Earth objects can be successfully targeted, deflecting the ...
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WEBSep 25, 2024 by News Staff. Despite the long history of consumption of fermented dairy, little is known about how the fermented microbes were utilized and evolved over human history. By retrieving ancient DNA of 3,500-year-old kefir cheese from Xinjiang, China, Dr. Qiaomei Fu from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology ...
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