[ad_1] NASA has confirmed that the next launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is now scheduled to take place no earlier than 3:37 a.m. EDT (07:37 UTC) on Saturday, August 28. Known as CRS-23, the International Space Station (ISS) cargo refueling mission is remarkable for two main reasons. More importantly, the CRS-23 will mark SpaceX’s very … Read more
[ad_1] Deadman’s Island: Natalie Graham explores Coffin Bay Located at the mouth of the Swale River, opposite the Isle of Sheppey, the island is completely off-limits to the public. The grim truth behind Deadman’s Island has been revealed in unearthed accounts. More than 200 years ago, the island was used as a burial place for … Read more
[ad_1] Image 1 of 23 (Image credit: NASA Johnson) A large crew The full crew of 11 from Expedition 65 pose for a photo aboard the International Space Station on April 24, 2021. In the back row (left to right) are NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and the cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrovnik from … Read more
[ad_1] Cells in the brain of a mouse. Credit: ZEISS microscopy on Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) An artificial neural (AI) network designed by an international team involving UCL can translate raw data of brain activity, paving the way for new discoveries and closer integration between technology and the brain. The new method could accelerate discoveries … Read more
[ad_1] From the largest known dinosaur track sites in North America at Picket Wire Canyonlands in southeast Colorado to the Jurassic remains encrusted in the rocks at Dinosaur National Monument in western Colorado, it’s no secret that person that the state holds many clues to a prehistoric past. The age separation of reptiles and mammals … Read more
[ad_1] At the start of their quest to reach the lonely mountain in “The Hobbit” by JRR Tolkien (1937), Bilbo Baggins and his company encounter a huge shape-changing warrior named Beorn. “Sometimes he’s a huge black bear,” the sorcerer Gandalf says of the man, “sometimes he’s a big, dark-haired man with huge arms and a … Read more
[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public domain A team of scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developed a bioprocess using modified yeast that completely and efficiently converted plant material consisting of acetate and xylose into valuable bioproducts. Lignocellulose, the woody material that gives plant cells their structure, is the most abundant raw material on Earth … Read more
[ad_1] By using femtosecond laser pulses, it is possible to induce magnetic waves (coherent spin waves) in an antiferromagnetic domain (above). Magnetic waves from adjacent domains are coupled to each other through the walls of the domains on the ultrafast timescale (below). Credit: Davide Bossini How do magnetic waves behave in antiferromagnetics and how are … Read more
[ad_1] “Distances are among the most difficult things to measure in astronomy,” said co-author Alberto Krone-Martins, astrophysicist and lecturer in computer science at the University of California at Irvine and a member of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC). “It is only recent direct distance measurements from Gaia that make the geometry of … Read more
[ad_1] Baatarbileg Nachin and Brendan Buckley collect a tree core from a Siberian larch dated 1250, August 1998. Credit: Neil Pederson A relatively new way of analyzing tree rings has allowed researchers to reconstruct temperatures in Mongolia since 1269 CE. The new reconstruction confirms that since the 1990s, summer temperatures have been the hottest the … Read more