[ad_1] Artist's view of the Beresheet probe on the lunar surface. (SpaceIL) Israel is about to embark on a historic mission of laying a spacecraft on the surface of the moon. The unmanned Beresheet spacecraft will be launched from Cape Canaveral Air Base atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket later this week. Beresheet, which is … Read more
[ad_1] The internet is lots of videos of thoughtful people burning things up. Here's an eternal favorite: cut a grape in half, leaving a little skin connecting the two hemispheres. Blitz in the microwave for five seconds. For a glorious moment, the grape halves will produce a fireball unfit for domestic life. The physicist Stephen … Read more
[ad_1] Clown of the class An anthropologist at the University of Florida says long space missions, such as a crewed trip to Mars, would require crew members with a strong sense of humor to build social bridges and defuse tensions at a distance. perilous distance from the Earth. "These are people who have the ability … Read more
[ad_1] This composite image shows ISS passing through the moon. Szabolcs Nagy Raise your eyes at the right moment and you can see the International Space Station with the naked eye. It looks like a tiny bright spot moving in the night sky. You can also do what the astrophotographer Szabolcs Nagy did and use … Read more
[ad_1] <div _ngcontent-c14 = "" innerhtml = " The rover lasted well beyond its expected lifeNASA Last week we said a dark goodbye NASA's rover Opportunity, active on Mars for nearly 15 years. What better way to remember the mission than to look at the last picture sent home? The occasion landed on Mars on … Read more
[ad_1] The illusion of Pinna-Brelstaff is extremely amusing: concentric rings of shapes, with reverse shading. When you move your head closer to illusion, the rings appear to rotate, zoom, and contract (continue, we'll wait while you try this with the photo above). We know that the shading effect helps our brain to perceive movement, even … Read more
[ad_1] The diversity of species living on the planet has NOT increased since the death of dinosaurs, reveals a study of 30,000 sites worldwide Scientists thought that species diversity had increased over millions of years New research indicates that the number of species has increased in sporadic bursts The species from one ecosystem to another … Read more
[ad_1] China would work on an experimental space station that would capture solar energy and transmit it to the ground. China's official media recently announced that the country plans to build a solar power plant in orbit around the Earth, capable of capturing solar energy without any interference. The report comes from China's Science and … Read more
[ad_1] NASA has big plans to return to the moon, but private companies will do the bulk of the work. (Credit: NASA) In November, NASA contracted nine private space flight companies to bid on future projects. Yesterday, they explained what these projects would be at an industry forum. From the beginning of this year, NASA … Read more
[ad_1] "The founders of this city had a valid theory of human nature, but they pushed it too far.It is the problem of big social ideas in general, they break if you tell them give too much weight. " In each book, there is a moment. A moment when the author must expose, in simple … Read more