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[ad_1] The International Space Station is the 150 billion-dollar spaceborne orbiting space laboratory since 2000. Since its launch, NASA astronauts aboard the ISS have made countless scientific discoveries, ranging from medical breakthroughs in the improvement of materials for future space missions. However, a prominent UFO fighter believes that the International Space Station has now made … Read more

[ad_1] It is the 39th of an exclusive series of 50 articles, published daily until July 20, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first landing on the Moon. You can check every day 50 days on the moon. In the middle of a dusty landscape anchored in a futuristic space outpost, two children, a … Read more

[ad_1] After two strong earthquakes in California last week, internet searches for the Yellowstone caldera and volcano have increased. The earthquakes – respectively magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 on July 4 and 5 – had apparently caused fears of a supervolcan eruption caused by these events. According to Google Trends, related search terms include "California Earthquake" … Read more

[ad_1] Artistic representation of gravitational waves produced by a compact binary white dwarf system with a Jovian planetary mass companion. Credit: Simonluca Definis In a recent article in Nature Astronomy, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute / AEI) in Potsdam and the French Committee of Alternative Energies and Atomic … Read more

[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public Domain The world's population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 – but how are we going to feed all these people? About one-third of the world's arable land suffers from a lack of accessible iron, which makes it inhospitable for staple crops such as corn and soybeans. Last year, … Read more

[ad_1] It's getting a little colder in the far reaches of the solar system, beyond the sun's bubble of influence, where NASA's Voyager probes are in their fifth decade by quickly moving away from the Earth. NASA engineers turned off a heater on the Voyager 2 because of the steady decrease in power supply facing … Read more

[ad_1] Chameleon Theory The theory of general relativity explaining the gravity of Einstein may not explain the whole story of the formation of galaxies and black holes in the universe. According to a press release from the University of Durham, new simulations of supercomputers implementing something called Chameleon Theory provide an alternative explanation of galaxy … Read more

[ad_1] A ROGUE Glacier dubbed "the most dangerous in the world" may melt completely – causing a catastrophic rise in sea level. Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica, is now approaching a "tipping point" that would cause an unstoppable flow of ice into the ocean. 6 The Thwaites Glacier covers an area about half the size of the … Read more

[ad_1] Russia successfully launched its Soyuz rocket on Friday morning (5 July), putting into orbit the Meteor M2-2 weather satellite and 32 other smaller satellites. The carpool mission took place from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in eastern Russia at 0841 local time (01:41 EDT or 0541 GMT). The Russian meteorological satellite Meteor M2-2 will provide Russian … Read more

[ad_1] Christian Arnold / Baojiu Li University / Durham Few things are more constant than gravity. Of all the objects of a shelf or an office with large planets like Jupiter and Saturn, everything obeys gravity in the same way. But physicists at the University of Durham in the UK now say that may not … Read more