The Dragonfly Targets the Moon of Saturn Titan | Human world

[ad_1] <! – -> Reprinted with permission of AmericaSpace. It was a long-awaited announcement, but the winner of NASA's next selection of missions in New Frontiers is … Dragonfly! This ambitious mission will be the first return to Titan, Saturn's moon, from Cassini / Huygens, and this drone-like gyroplane will fly to various places in … Read more

Scientists discover an "exceptional specimen" of a Cretaceous lizard … inside the belly of a dinosaur

[ad_1] The last moments of a Cretaceous lizard may have looked like this, because they were swallowed the head first by the dinosaur Microraptor zhaoianus. Credit: Doyle Trankina About 120 million years ago, a small dinosaur swallowed a lizard, swallowing all the reptile. The story of the little lizard may have ended here, but the … Read more

Researchers team up to make better batteries

[ad_1] Assistant Professor Jose Mendoza-Cortes and postdoctoral researcher A. Nijamudheen teamed up with Cornell researchers to design a more efficient battery. Credit: Florida State University A team of researchers from Florida State University and Cornell University discovered that batteries made from inexpensive and safe components can provide three to four times more power than batteries … Read more

Physicists discover the first possible 3D quantum spin liquid

[ad_1] Three-dimensional representation of the spin-excitation continuum – a possible characteristic of a quantum spin liquid – observed in a monocrystalline sample of cerium zirconium pyrochlore during experiments conducted at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Inelastic neutron scattering experiments at the ORNL spallation neutralization source revealed a spin excitation continuum in cerium zirconium pyrochlore … Read more

Update: a telescope designed to study a mysterious dark energy keeps the hopes of Russian space science | Science

[ad_1] A German survey instrument on Spektr-RG equipped with seven X-ray telescopes increased sensitivity. © P. Friedrich / Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics By Daniel CleryJul 15, 2019, 9:55 am * Update of July 15th at 9:55 am: At 18:31 The Russian Spektr-RG X-ray Observatory was launched on July 13th from the Baikonur Cosmodrome … Read more

Rocket to project on Washington Monument

[ad_1] TO CLOSE JoAnn Morgan sat in the middle of the sea with white shirts, black ties and pocket protectors inside the NASA shooting room for Apollo 11's takeoff. AP WASHINGTON – Fifty years ago, men were launched on the moon with the help of a Saturn V rocket. There are still only three types … Read more

SpaceX and NASA detail the cause of Dragon test failure, crewed flight seems "more and more difficult" – TechCrunch

[ad_1] SpaceX held a press conference Monday to discuss the results of a multi-month survey conducted by NASA and by itself on an anomaly that occurred during a static firing test in April. The investigation revealed that the "anomaly" that occurred during the test was the result of a mixture of very high pressure oxidant … Read more