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[ad_1] NASA's Earth Observation satellites have spotted the world's largest seaweed overgrowth, a seaweed belt spanning 8,850 kilometers from Africa. the West up to the Gulf of Mexico. Brown algae, called the Great Sargassum Atlantic Belt, have floated on the surface of the tropical Atlantic Ocean for eight years. By 2018, more than 20 million … Read more

[ad_1] Even in the strange world of open quantum systems, the arrow of time is constantly pointing to the front – most of the time. New experiments conducted at the University of Washington in St. Louis compare the trajectories of the superconducting circuits called qubits, and find that they follow the second law of thermodynamics. … Read more

[ad_1] A galaxy located about 2.5 billion light-years away has a pair of supermassive (encrusted) black holes. The locations of the black holes are lit by the hot gas and the bright stars surrounding the objects. The discovery improves the estimates of when astronomers will detect for the first time the gravitational wave background generated … Read more

[ad_1] Nearly 50 years ago, on July 20, 1969, NASA was able to place the Apollo Lunar Module on the surface of the Moon. The event immobilized the world while millions of people watched live TV with concern, before Armstrong delivered his legendary speech "A small step" that marked the end of the race at … Read more

[ad_1] Coral reefs retreat from equatorial waters and establish new reefs in more temperate regions, according to a new study published in the journal Progress series in marine ecology. The researchers found that the number of young corals on tropical reefs had decreased by 85% – and doubled over subtropical reefs – over the last … Read more

[ad_1] Anything that shines … can be gold. At least, that's what scientists think of a brilliant asteroid, the size of Massachusetts, which can be stuffed with precious metals. NASA recently approved a mission to visit space rock, which orbits the sun in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The mission – the … Read more

[ad_1] Mission control monitors probe at 300 million kilometers The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 began Wednesday to descend for its final landing on a remote asteroid, hoping to collect samples that could illuminate the evolution of the solar system. "At 9:58, we made the decision" Go "for the second hit of the probe Hayabusa2," said the … Read more

[ad_1] NASA has reacted to recent reports of "lost" airstrips for Apollo 11 Moon, but firmly believes that no sequence of the historic mission has been lost. "In the run-up to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, NASA would have lost valuable video footage of this first moonwalk," explained the space agency … Read more

[ad_1] Florida-sized glacier melting much faster than expected and may soon cause sea level rise of 50 cm, according to a new NASA-funded study published online by the National Academy of Sciences report science. The study found that over the past six years, several closely observed Antarctic glaciers have doubled their melting rate. Their melting … Read more