SpaceX is continuing its mission to provide high-speed internet access to the world with the launch of its second-generation Starlink satellites. On February 28, 2023, the Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to deploy 21 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit.[0] These satellites, equipped with more powerful […]
Continue reading NASA and SpaceX launched a Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 2, 2023, sending four astronauts into orbit. This is the sixth commercial crew rotation mission with SpaceX and will enable NASA to maximize use of the ISS, where astronauts have lived and worked continuously for more than 22 years. The […]
Continue reading In 2012, Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State’s Insect Identification Lab, was walking into a Walmart in Fayetteville, Arkansas to get milk when he spotted a huge insect on the side of the building.[0] Eight years later, while teaching an online course based on his personal insect collection, Skvarla realized he had misidentified the insect […]
Continue reading SpaceX launched a crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station on Thursday, March 2, 2023.[0] The crew includes two Americans, Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, the United Arab Emirates Sultan Al-Neyadi, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.[1] The launch came after the first attempt was called off earlier in the week due to a […]
Continue reading On September 26, 2022, a momentous event occurred in space: the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, sent by NASA, slammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at 13,000 miles per hour.[0] This impact, which covered 7 million miles, changed the extraterrestrial rock’s orbit around its larger companion asteroid, Didymos.[1] It was the first proof of […]
Continue reading What is the process by which woodcocks create the most dazzling white plumage patches among birds?[0] Journal: Journal of The Royal Society Interface[0] 10.1098/rs[1] 0. “Stunning Woodcock Is Now The Brightest Bird Known To Science” IFLScience, 2 Mar. 2023, https://www.iflscience.com/stunning-woodcock-is-now-the-brightest-bird-known-to-science-67774 1. “Woodcocks have the brightest white feathers ever measured” Phys.org, 1 Mar. 2023, https://phys.org/news/2023-03-woodcocks-brightest-white-feathers.html
Continue reading For those who have been looking up at the night sky over the past weeks, they will have noticed two bright planets getting closer and closer together.[0] On Wednesday, March 1, these two planets, Venus and Jupiter, will meet in a rare conjunction, appearing close to one another despite the fact that they are actually […]
Continue reading Recent research has revealed the pathways used by Neanderthals as they migrated out of Europe, with researchers identifying Iran as a potential meeting point between these three related species. Elham Ghasidian et al, in their study titled ‘Modelling Neanderthals’ Dispersal Routes from Caucasus Towards East’, used computer-based least-cost-path modelling for the Neanderthal dispersal routes from […]
Continue reading SpaceX launched a crew of four astronauts on a six month mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 2, 2023. The crew is composed of two NASA astronauts, Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, United Arab Emirates’ Sultan Alneyadi, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.[0] The launch was originally scheduled for Feb. 27 but […]
Continue reading Scientists from the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne have discovered how adult neural stem/progenitor cells (NSPCs) can be reactivated to form new neurons. This process of adult neurogenesis is important for memory and learning, but its capacity decreases with age. The researchers have identified the role of cell metabolism in this process and how to […]
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