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The race to save Caribbean coral | The larger picture

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[ad_1] Emily Hower, research assistant at Nova Southeastern University, works in the field on coral off Key West, Florida. She comes out of the water and removes her diving mask. The news is not good. Most of the pillar corals that his team has been watching for years are dead. Sep 8, 2019. Key West, … Read more

A Japanese rocket takes off with batteries for the space station

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[ad_1] A Japanese supply ship exploded Tuesday to the International Space Station, two weeks after stopping the first countdown for a shot on the launch pad. Japanese authorities traced the fire to static electricity and the oxygen booster, and then corrected the problem. The shipment of 4 tons is expected to arrive at the space … Read more

The kimberlites reveal a 2.5 billion year evolution of a deep and isolated reservoir of the mantle

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[ad_1] 1. Hofmann, A. W. Chemical Differentiation of the Earth: The Relationship Between the Mantle, the Continental Crust and the Oceanic Crust. Earth. Sci. Lett. 90297-314 (1988). 2 Hofmann, A. W. in Treaty of geochemistry2nd edition, vol. 3 (Holland, H.D. and Turekian ed., K.T.) 67-101 (Elsevier, 2014). 3 Jackson, M.G. et al. Evidence of the … Read more

What whales and dolphins have left for life in the ocean

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[ad_1] When the terrestrial ancestors of today's whales and dolphins crawled into the seas a long time ago, they acquired many things, including fins, the ability to hold their breath for a long time, and their skin thick and hard. Along the way, they also ignored many features that were no longer relevant or useful. … Read more

NASA is ready to demolish the moon landing laboratory in 1969

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[ad_1] NASA is preparing to destroy the laboratory where the Apollo 11 astronauts were quarantined upon their return to Earth, following the historic landing of the moon in 1969. The space agency says that the so-called lunar reception laboratory (LRL) at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, has not been used for two years … Read more

These three supermassive black holes could one day join forces

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[ad_1] Triple fusionPhoto: X-ray: NASA / CXC / George Mason University / R. Pfeifle et al .; Optics: SDSS & NASA / STScI Scientists have spotted the best evidence to date of a trio of supermassive black holes in seemingly merging galaxies, says a new article. Evolutionary theories of the universe predict that galaxies and … Read more

What will we eat on Mars? Scientists already have our planned menu

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[ad_1] Photo: R_Type (iStock) Since James Bond's electable President James Bond, Elon Musk, announced plans to start a colony on Mars by the end of the century, the question was: "What's wrong with dinner in space? Printed beef? Are we going to establish domed farms on Ganymede? What about dehydrated Pizza Hut? According to a … Read more

Confirmation of the second interstellar object to visit the solar system, named after the amateur astronomer

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[ad_1] Technology 01:14 26.09.2019(updated 01:20 26.09.2019) Get a short URL The first interstellar comet and the second interstellar object to enter our solar system in modern history were originally discovered by a telescope maker with a strong history of recently identified comets. An unusual space object detected last month, of interstellar origin, was named in … Read more

A NASA planetary hunter has discovered a black hole "ripping stars".

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[ad_1] A "starry" black hole was first spotted by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Survey (TSS) satellite. "The TESS data allowed us to see exactly when this destructive event, called ASASSN-19bt, began to become brighter, something we had never done before," said Thomas Holoien, a Carnegie Fellow. at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. , in … Read more