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Russia’s Luna 25 mission launches to the moon

11Aug

By Raeesa SayyadNo Comments

Science

Russia’s Luna 25 mission launches to the moon

Russia has successfully launched Luna 25, the country’s first lunar lander in 47 years. The uncrewed spacecraft lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia. Hitching a ride aboard a Soyuz-2 Fregat rocket, Luna 25 took flight at 8:10 a.m. local time Friday, or 7:10 p.m. ET Thursday. Residents of a Russian village were temporarily evacuated Friday morning since there is a “one in a million chance” that one of Luna 25’s rocket stages could fall there, according to Reuters.The spacecraft is expected to first enter an orbit around Earth before transferring to a lunar orbit and ultimately descending to the surface of the moon. Russia’s last lunar lander, Luna 24, landed on the moon on August 18, 1976. Luna 25 and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, which launched in mid-...

A Jupiter-size exoplanet formed around a tiny star. Astronomers aren’t sure how

5Aug

By Raeesa SayyadNo Comments

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A Jupiter-size exoplanet formed around a tiny star. Astronomers aren’t sure how

A massive, Jupiter-size planet has been found orbiting a relatively small, low-mass star, surprising astronomers and challenging theories on how planets form. The extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, orbits the red dwarf TOI-4860. Located in the constellation of Corvus, TOI-4860 has a mass equivalent to just around a third of the sun's. The exoplanet in question, aptly designated TOI-4860 b , falls close enough to the star to complete an orbit approximately once every 1.5 Earth days, classifying it as a "warm Jupiter." This is unusual for two reasons. First, with widths equivalent to about three-quarters of Jupiter's, planets like this one aren't supposed to form around low-mass stars. Second, TOI-4860 b seems to be enriched with a high proportion of metals — a term astronomers use ...

3Dec

By Lee TriebelNo Comments

Science

Keto Diet: Yours for The Taking

Everyone knows about the keto diet. It’s the most effective way to get your body to burn fat. The problem is, it’s hard to achieve! However, there’s a new way to get the benefits of the keto diet without massive lifestyle changes. The lifestyle/ health and wellness company, Limitless, has created a product that empowers your body to naturally burn fat through ketosis without crazy, low-carb eating. Recently, people have been trying to find ways around the keto diet including things like the new lazy keto diet. That’s why Limitless created Keto Trim! How does your body actually burn fat during ketosis? By entering ketosis, you are altering your body’s usual metabolic state, which normally uses carbs for energy, in favor of a different metabolic state that uses body fat for energy ins...

Atmospheric CO2 arrives at the top level at NOAA observatory

5Jun

By Gook JahnNo Comments

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Atmospheric CO2 arrives at the top level at NOAA observatory

The level of atmospheric carbon dioxide saw at a government facility in Hawaii arrived at another top in May, researchers from National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) and the University of California San Diego said Thursday. A month ago, that the convergence of carbon dioxide in the climate recording at the Mauna Loa observatory was as high as 417.1 parts per million (ppm). As indicated by an NOAA explanation, this was the highest month to month carbon dioxide level at any point recorded. It was 2.4 ppm higher than the 2019 pinnacle of 414.7 ppm. Carbon dioxide levels measure the amount of gas there is in the atmosphere. This is not quite the same as carbon dioxide emissions, which measure how much new carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. The rate...

The littlest dinosaur ever was discovered encased in amber

16Mar

By Mark RonaldNo Comments

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The littlest dinosaur ever was discovered encased in amber

A small chunk of fossilized tree sap holds the most diminutive dinosaur ever found, as indicated by a group of specialists. As BBC News reports, the fossilized sap, called amber, was found in Myanmar and holds what looks somewhat like a small bird skull. Going back somewhere in the range of 99 million years, the old remains are from the Cretaceous period and offer everyone a window into the past they seldom appreciate. The disclosure, which is the subject of a new research paper published in the journal Nature, does exclude a full skeleton, however, researchers can evaluate the size of the dinosaur dependent on its skull alone. They trust it might have been as small as the most diminutive species of bird alive today. Everyone frequently considers dinosaurs enormous, hulking beasts ...

Researchers find the first-known creature that needn’t bother with oxygen to endure

28Feb

By Mark RonaldNo Comments

Science

Researchers find the first-known creature that needn’t bother with oxygen to endure

Scientists have found the only known creature that needn't bother with oxygen to endure, a common parasite that to a great extent goes after salmon. The investigation, published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that the parasite Henneguya salminicola doesn't require aerobic respiration to endure — a disclosure that may change how everyone comprehends life on Earth and past. The multicellular organism, which is part of a group of creatures firmly identified with jellyfish known as the Myxozoa, doesn't inhale at all and doesn't have mitochondrial DNA. It's the first multicellular creature found in the wild to not have the DNA, which contains the genes liable for breath, and has lost "the ability to perform aerobic cellular respiration...

Asteroid Pallas’ violent history uncovered in new pictures

17Feb

By Dan BarwellNo Comments

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Asteroid Pallas’ violent history uncovered in new pictures

A gigantic, intensely cratered asteroid known as Pallas has a violent history, researchers uncovered in a new investigation. Pallas, which is the third biggest object in the asteroid belt and named after the Greek goddess of wisdom, can be seen in detailed pictures published Monday in a study in Nature Astronomy. Specialists believe that the asteroid's pockmarked surface is an aftereffect of its one of a kind orbit. Pallas has a tilted orbit, so it is essentially smashing through the asteroid belt at an angle, not at all like most other comparable objects. "Pallas' orbit implies very high-velocity impacts," Michaël Marsset, the paper's lead author and a postdoctoral student in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, told MIT News. "From these images, we ...

The Automaker’s 2019 Profits Were Essentially Wiped Out

3Feb

By Raeesa SayyadNo Comments

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The Automaker’s 2019 Profits Were Essentially Wiped Out

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Researchers build up an idea of a hybrid thorium reactor

30Jan

By Mark RonaldNo Comments

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Researchers build up an idea of a hybrid thorium reactor

Russian researchers have proposed an idea of a thorium hybrid reactor that acquires extra neutrons utilizing high-temperature plasma held in a long magnetic trap. This project was applied in close collaboration between Tomsk Polytechnic University, All-Russian Scientific Research Institute Of Technical Physics (VNIITF), and Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of SB RAS. The proposed thorium hybrid reactor is recognized from the present nuclear reactors by moderate power, relatively compact size, high operational security, and a low level of radioactive waste. "At the initial stage, we get relatively cold plasma using special plasma guns. We retain the amount by deuterium gas injection. The injected neutral beams with particle energy of 100 keV into this plasma generate the high-energy...

Researchers discover proof that Venus has active volcanoes

4Jan

By Dan BarwellNo Comments

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Researchers discover proof that Venus has active volcanoes

New research led by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and published today in Science Advances shows that lava flows on Venus might be just a few years old, recommending that Venus could be volcanically active today—making it the only planet in the solar system, other than Earth, with recent eruptions. "If Venus is indeed active today, it would make a great place to visit to better understand the interiors of planets," says Dr. Justin Filiberto, the study's lead author and a Universities Space Research Association (USRA) staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI). "For example, we could study how planets cool and why the Earth and Venus have active volcanism, but Mars does not. Future missions should be able to see these flows and changes in the surface and...