[ad_1] NASA is betting big on the future of space robots. As automated gadgets become more and more advanced, scientists are starting to imagine how robots could not only help space travelers, but could even assume some of the burden associated with various tasks. To explore these possibilities, NASA sent a trio of Astrobee robots … Read more
[ad_1] A mineral map of a cumulate mineral sample. Credit: Sarah Lambart / University of Utah In countless grade-school science textbooks, the Earth's mantle is a yellow-to-orange gradient, a nebulously defined layer between the crust and the core. To geologists, the mantle is so much more than that. It's a region that lives somewhere between … Read more
[ad_1] May 20 (UPI) – The rat poison used to kill rats in Cape Town, South Africa, infiltrates the environment and harms local wildlife, including caracals, mongooses, otters and owls. . Scientists from the University of Cape Town measured levels of poisoned compounds in rats in liver and blood samples collected from 41 animals in … Read more
[ad_1] The cave of the Klasies River. Courtesy Wits University Starches have been staple foods for even more than it seemed possible. For the first time, archaeological evidence confirms that humans have been roasting and eating plant starches for 120,000 years, more than 100,000 years more than we could have grown. An international team of … Read more
[ad_1] The first stage of ULA's Atlas 5 rocket will take place Friday at Cape Canaveral Complex 41. Credit: United Launch Alliance The first bronze leg of the upcoming United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket arrived Friday on the Cape Canaveral launch pad, where it will be joined by five solid fuel boosters, a Centaur … Read more
[ad_1] NASA's Curiosity robots, InSight Lander and Reconnaissance Orbiter are all doing remarkable work on and around the red planet, but that does not stop scientists from moving forward with their plans to send new high-tech equipment to the world. Martian surface. The March 2020 mission will send another rover to Mars and there is … Read more
[ad_1] Tech2 News StaffMay 20, 2019 16:04:08 IST A mysterious material has drilled holes in our galaxy but seems invisible when viewed directly by a telescope. However, scientists know that it exists. Researcher Ana Bonaca, a researcher at Harvard University, discovered these "bullet holes".Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "It's a dense ball of something," Bonaca said. … Read more
[ad_1] Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, based at Stanford University, have created such a powerful underwater sound that it instantly vaporizes water and seems to set the threshold for intensity. real sound. Scientists used The powerful X-ray laser from SLAC to blow tiny jets of water with short pulses of high frequency energy. When … Read more
[ad_1] Pluto has left astronomers perplexed since the world was first discovered in 1930. And its mysteries grew only as a result of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which crossed the dwarf planet in 2015. A point of confusion is Sputnik's Planitia , part of the familiar heart-shaped region of the northern hemisphere of Pluto. New … Read more
[ad_1] To discover the operation of a completely new two-component system, synthetic biologists from Rice University have rewired the genetic circuits of seven strains of bacteria and examined the behavior of each during exposure to 117 different chemicals. Credit: Jeff Fitlow / Rice University Synthetic biologists at Rice University have hacked bacterial detection with a … Read more