[ad_1] Why should life really be a walk in the park: green spaces improve mood as much as Christmas day and make people happier and less egocentric For three months, a team from the University of Vermont studied hundreds of tweets These have all been displayed in 160 different parks in San Francisco, California. The … Read more
[ad_1] In 2023, NASA plans to launch the Europa Clipper mission, a robotic explorer who will study the enigmatic moon of Jupiter, Europa. The purpose of this mission is to explore the ice pack and the interior of the Europa ice to learn about the composition, geology and interactions of the Moon between the surface … Read more
[ad_1] A banana killer fungus that has been destroying crops in Asia and Australia for decades is now in the Americas, which produce the majority of world banana exports. Colombia declared a national emergency on August 8th after laboratory results confirmed the presence of the fungus, known as Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 (TR4), within … Read more
[ad_1] The Canadian hydrogen intensity mapping (CHIME) experiment is a radio telescope designed to detect fast radio bursts (via André Renard / MIT). Astronomers have identified eight new, repeated sources of fast radio gusts using Canada's CHIME telescope. The results, led by Bridget Andersen of McGill University, could be a breakthrough in the study of … Read more
[ad_1] Round the house The Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan 2 is now orbiting the Moon. That means we are about to touch the lunar surface on September 7th, according to France Media Agency. If the mission continues as planned, India will become the fourth country to place a spacecraft on the moon, after Russia, the United … Read more
[ad_1] NASA is looking for ideas from private companies to deliver supplies to its future Gateway Station around the Moon, the agency's flagship Artemis program aimed at returning to the lunar surface. As part of the Artemis program, NASA aims to land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024. This … Read more
[ad_1] You have eaten exactly the same type of banana hundreds, probably thousands of times before. Sometimes he was comically tall; to others, usefully size palm for a convenient snack. Ripe or greener, in transit or freshly landed from the market, sick or healthy – from a genetic point of view, it's the same old … Read more
[ad_1] The moment of judgment has finally arrived for India's most daring lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2. On Tuesday, August 20, almost a week after leaving Earth's orbit, the probe will be inserted into a lunar orbit before an unprecedented soft landing. The insertion is tentatively scheduled between 8:30 and 9:30 Tuesday, announced the president of the … Read more
[ad_1] Artist's design shows the launch of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket. (ULA illustration) United Launch Alliance's new-generation Vulcan rocket – and Blue Origin's BE-4 rocket engine – have been chosen to send the Astrobotic Lunar Lander Peregrine and the Dream Chaser mini-shuttle. 39, Astrobotic to the last frontier in 2021. None of last week's … Read more
[ad_1] Artistic representation of the surface of LHS 3844b, a planet that has no atmosphere. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Injured (IPAC) Study reports on the search for an atmosphere around the planet a little similar to ours. Astronomers at MIT, Harvard University and other countries searched a rock-like Earth-sized exoplanet for traces of … Read more