[ad_1] <! – -> Astronomers working with data from the Chandra X-ray space observatory said this week (25 September 2019) that they had located three supermassive black holes on a collision course. The system in which this merger of three black holes is in progress is called SDSS J0849 + 1114. It is located about … Read more
[ad_1] Real life is certainly stranger than fiction. A microscopic worm that has three different sexes, manages to survive a dose of arsenic that would kill a person 500 times more and is able to carry its young to the inside of its body, as a kangaroo was discovered in one of the most uninhabitable … Read more
[ad_1] The skeleton of a former sports fan was discovered next to an 1800-year-old jar shaped like a wrestler's or boxer's head that would have had a broken nose, archaeologists reported. The "spectacular" balsamarium – a jar used to store liquids such as balm or perfumes – was discovered in a tomb located in the … Read more
[ad_1] We humans have officially entered unknown territory. Over the course of some 2.5 million years, our species has walked on Earth. Never before have we endured such an atmosphere. New research on ancient soils has now confirmed that the levels of carbon dioxide of the last sixty years are the highest in human history. … Read more
[ad_1] Copyright of the image University of Bern Legend Work: The gaseous world and its star are about 30 light-years away from us. Astronomers have discovered a giant planet that, according to current theories, should not exist. The Jupiter-like world is unusually large compared to its host star, which contradicts a widely held idea about … Read more
[ad_1] Geologists have discovered a new hidden continent in the Mediterranean region after analyzing in detail all the mountain ranges from Spain to Iran for 10 years. The research, published in the journal Gondwana Research, revealed how a piece of continental crust the size of Greenland once separated from North Africa had plunged into the … Read more
[ad_1] Evolutionarily related viruses infecting bacteria and humans adopting one of the newly established protein patterns of icosahedral capsids. Bacillus phage Basilisk (a), herpes simplex virus 1 (b) and bacteriophage lambda (c). Credit: Antoni Luque, San Diego State University and Reidun Twarock, University of York. New research reveals that the way in which viruses have … Read more
[ad_1] Just north of the Tennessee River near Huntsville, Alabama, is a six-storey rocket test bench located in a small lolly pine clearing. It is here, in an isolated corner of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, that the US Army and NASA have conducted critical tests during the development of the Redstone rocket. In 1958, … Read more
[ad_1] What does it look like @Space station when your best friend realizes her dream of always going into space. Took the second step in progress! We are looking forward to welcoming you on board, crew members of the Soyuz 61! pic.twitter.com/Ws7tInY58P – Christina H Koch (@Astro_Christina) September 25, 2019 The photo shows plumes of … Read more
[ad_1] Astronomers are only beginning to understand locate interstellar objects, space debris that fled another solar system to sweep ours. But signs suggest that there should be many more identifications to come. This is the conclusion of a new research being published when scientists encountered the second known interstellar object, a comet called Borisov, which … Read more