Science

NASA establishes council to review plans to return samples from Mars

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[ad_1] NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet’s surface for future missions to be recovered, as shown in this illustration. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech The advice will help analyze current plans and goals for one of the most difficult missions humanity has ever undertaken. NASA … Read more

NASA tracks large growing anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field

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[ad_1] NASA is actively monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field: a giant region of weaker magnetic intensity in the sky above the planet, stretching between South America and southwest Africa. This vast developing phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has puzzled and preoccupied scientists for years, and perhaps no more than NASA researchers. … Read more

Experts believe Neptune and Uranus are ‘mostly’ made of water

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[ad_1] While NASA offers a mission to Neptune’s moon, Triton, which may have an ocean capable of supporting life, researchers believe Neptune and Uranus are “mostly” made up of a strange form of water. Scientists have developed a computer model to examine “thermal and electrical processes occurring under physical conditions” on giant ice planets. In … Read more

The Perseids 2020 meteor shower just got easier to see: how to watch

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[ad_1] Some Perseids from 2019, seen from Macedonia. Spaceweather.com/Stojan Stojanovski It’s mid-August, which means the annual Perseid meteor shower is active and will be until August 24. The Perseids are among the best and the brightest. lots of shooting stars, and although they have already peaked, it may be easier to see them now with … Read more

NASA captures haunting view of northern lights meeting above Earth

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[ad_1] A NASA astronaut snapped this Aurora and Aerial Glow Combo Pack in March 2020. NASA Some images of Earth seen from the International Space Station show a gentle curve of light above our planet. Some show wispy, ethereal (and often green) dawn. A spectacular image of the ISS shared by NASA shows the two. … Read more

For the first time, physicists control the interaction of the crystals of time

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[ad_1] The existence of time crystals – a particularly fascinating state of matter – was only confirmed a few years ago, but physicists have already made a fairly significant breakthrough: they have induced and observed an interaction between two time crystals. In a helium-3 superfluid, two crystals of time have exchanged quasi-particles without disturbing their … Read more

Humans have slept on beds for their entire existence

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[ad_1] It was so easy that even a caveman could do it. Humans have been sleeping in beds for almost as long as they roam the earth, according to a new study published in the journal Science. At the world-famous Border Cave excavation site in South Africa, archaeologists have uncovered evidence of grass mats dating … Read more