[ad_1] Copyright of the image Getty Images An international team has launched a mission to sequence the genome of all known animals, plants, fungi and unicellular organisms known as protozoa. The Earth …
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[ad_1] Researchers have just described 17 stunning new species of sea slugs that live among coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific region. All the species belong to the genus Hypselodoris, and come in …
Read More »NASA objects lost in the middle of poor record keeping
[ad_1] (CNN) – The agency's monitoring concluded that NASA has lost invaluable remnants of the history of space, largely because of poor record keeping and its tracking. The Inspector General recently concluded …
Read More »AstroSat and the Chandra X-ray Observatory discover a black hole that runs almost to the maximum
[ad_1] Scientists using data from India's first dedicated astronomy satellite, AstroSat, and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory have discovered that a black hole in the star system binaries 4U 1630-47 turned near the …
Read More »Black Holes and the Chaos at the Center of the Milky Way
[ad_1] The video is positively ghostly. Clumps of gas swirl around the black hole, traveling at about 30 percent of the speed of light. Astronomers collected the data for the visualization using …
Read More »Parker Solar Probe Starts Its First Skim Past the Sun
[ad_1] NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has had a big week: on Monday (Oct. 29) it broke two world records and on Wednesday (Oct. 31) it began its first close pass over the …
Read More »A supercomputer on the ISS will be open for science experiments
[ad_1] Astronauts will be able to use a supercomputer to help run experiments on the International Space Station. The Spaceborne Computer, a joint project between NASA and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, was launched …
Read More »Watch the Russian rocket failure that forced two astronauts to make an emergency landing
[ad_1] The Russian space agency Roscosmos has released footage Soyuz rocket launch that grounded at NASA Astronaut and Russian Cosmonaut last month. The two crew members were on their way to the …
Read More »Karate Karate-Kicks Wasp To avoid becoming a brainless Zombie
[ad_1] A cockroach was filmed by karate kicking a parasitic wasp to protect itself from becoming a zombie. Ken Catania, a biologist at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, was studying the interactions between …
Read More »Rare Blue Asteroid Behaves Sometimes Like a Comet | Space
[ad_1] <! – -> The artist's concept of what Phaeton could look like. Image via Heather Roper. Blue asteroids are rare and blue comets are almost unknown. An international team of astronomers …
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