For 50 Years Through six different Apollo missions, astronauts brought back to Earth 842 pounds of rocks and soil from the moon. On Monday, during a speech about the White House’s proposed 2020 budget, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that…
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It seems that there is a conspiracy against reusability, such as the mythical “conspiracy of oil workers against electric vehicles”. In reality, conditions are dictated by the economy. The situation was best expressed by the head of the Ariane Group.…
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Biology and Life
Human Genome Summit | Genetically Edited Babies
by Gabriela Martins February 16, 2019Couples could choose whether to use edited or unedited embryos for pregnancy attempts. He Jiankui, an associate professor at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, addressed a packed hall of around 700 people attending the Human…
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Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, will not be involved in a plan to send two space tourists on a flight around the Moon and was not consulted about the project, the federal space agency said. This is a plain commercial…
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Communication, Education and Outreach
People Are Not That Different
by Lukas Norberg February 10, 2019Artificial intelligence, or AI, has been dramatized in plenty of science fiction movies. We all have many social identities, and we might act in different ways depending on which one is activated. Not many people know exactly what the future…
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Biology and Life
About Alzheimer’s Disease | Is There Room For Gene Editing?
by Gabriela Martins January 25, 2019In January 2019, scientists in China reported the creation of five identical clonedgene-edited monkeys, using the same cloning technique that was used with Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, and the same gene-editing Crispr-Cas9 technique allegedly used by He Jiankui in…
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Physics and Astronomy
Under General Relativity, A Black Hole Is Inescapable
by George Cronk January 25, 2019We Just Got Lab Made Evidence Of Stephen Hawking’s Greatest Prediction About Black Holes. Nothing, not even light, can escape from inside the event horizon. The black hole is the background spacetime for a quantum field theory. the heart of…
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Outer space
Artist’s Concept Of The Cassini Orbiter Crossing Saturn’s Ring Plane
by George Cronk January 24, 2019One of the last acts of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft before its death plunge into Saturn’s hydrogen and helium atmosphere was to coast between the planet and its rings and let them tug it around, essentially acting as a gravity probe.…
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Environmental and Earth
The Soyuz Rocket Space Agency Creates A Lunar Version
by Steffen Kohl January 20, 2019Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin (@Rogozin) has said that NASA had asked Roscosmos to create a lunar version of the Soyuz spacecraft as a backup manned space transport system for flights to the Moon. He didn’t offer further…
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A team led by Viviane Slon and Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, carried out genetic analysis on a fragment of bone, more than 50,000 years old, found in a cave in Russia.…