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Inside NASA’s Jaw-Dropping Plans To Fly To Titan, Burn Its Lakes And Bring Home The ...
Experts are now actively examining just how the space agency could reach Titan, scoop-up a sample and then use Titan’s lakes of liquid methane and ethane as propellant to get the sample home. ...
What is a lemon shark? Meet the docile, shy creature named after a fruit
A man is recovering in hospital after being bitten by a sicklefin lemon shark. But experts say lemon shark attacks are rare and more needs to be known about them. ...
Is Simone Biles’ Twisties Caused By Mineral Deficiency?
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Virus-origin study based on science expected
China has submitted a proposal to the World Health Organization for the second phase of the COVID-19 origin study in an effort to support and coordinate with the organization in tracing the origins of the virus globally, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian
New Russian science lab briefly knocks space station out of position
A newly arrived Russian science lab briefly knocked the International Space Station out of position Thursday when it accidentally fired its thrusters. For 47 minutes, the space station lost control of its orientation when the firing occurred a few hours after
'Stuff fell down': Alaska measures strongest US earthquake in 56 years
Tsunami warnings are issued and coastal residents are evacuated after a magnitude-8.2 Chignik Earthquake strikes, the most powerful on US soil since 1965. ...
How A Group Of Russian Engineers Revived Telegram’s Blockchain
In 2018, mainstream cryptocurrency payments seemed within reach, as Pavel Durov sought to bring instant crypto payments to 500 million active Telegram users, enabling instantaneous and affordable peer-to-peer global transactions. ...
Space station mishap prompts NASA to postpone launch of Boeing Starliner
July 29 (Reuters) - NASA on Thursday postponed a planned launch of a Boeing (BA.N) CST-100 Starliner capsule to the International Space Station after the orbiting outpost was briefly thrown out of control by jet thrusters inadvertently activated on a newly
France Calls British Travel Rules 'Discriminatory,' Not Science-Based
France's European Affairs Minister on Thursday called Britain's decision to lift quarantine requirements for all fully vaccinated travelers arriving from Europe except France "discriminatory and incomprehensible" and said he hopes it is reviewed as soon as
Russian Module's Engines Fire Unexpectedly After Docking With ISS
A Russian space-laboratory module unexpectedly fired its engines on July 29 after successfully docking with the International Space Station (ISS), changing the position of the ISS until another set of thrusters could be fired. NASA said the newly arrived
Dogs can recognize a bad person and there’s science to prove it.
This article originally appeared on 06.06.19 Dogs can smell fear, but can they sniff out the truth? Your dog might actually be smarter than you're giving it credit for. It turns out, dogs are pretty good at picking up on human behavior. Science says so. A team
Russia rocket mishap briefly nudges International Space Station out of position
After several ‘hiccups’ on the journey to the ISS, the Nauka lab module accidentally fired its rockets after docking Russia’s troubled Nauka laboratory module has caused a fright when its rockets accidentally fired after docking the with the International
New Russian lab briefly knocks space station out of position
A newly arrived Russian science lab briefly knocked the International Space Station out of position Thursday when it accidentally fired its thrusters. For 47 minutes, the space station lost control of its orientation when the firing occurred a few hours after
Talk About Renewable Energy: Toilet Turns Excrement Into Power AND Currency
A professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea basically turned led into gold. The toilet he created uses human feces “to produce biogas and manure.” Not only that, every person using it gets paid in “a virtual
International Space Station knocked out of position for 47 minutes
A newly arrived Russian science lab briefly knocked the International Space Station out of position Thursday when it accidentally fired its thrusters. ...
Pataa - the app that is solving India’s addressing problem
The Pataa app has been developed keeping the Indian addressing problems in mind which cost the country a huge loss of around Rs.75, 000crores annually as per a survey report by MIT, US. The maximum cost incurred by delivery companies is the last mile cost,
Concordia's Daniel Sem bridges science, entrepreneurship
With CU Ventures and several other initiatives he's involved with, Concordia University Wisconsin's Daniel Sem is combining his interests in science and healthcare with his passions for entrepreneurship, business and mentorship. ...
Congressman: Pelosi No Longer 'Benevolent Dictator,' Now She Is a 'Tyrant'
Republican Rep. Barry Moore (AL) slammed
Drones deployed to monitor whales along the NSW coast
Each year, endangered Southern Right Whales travel along the NSW coastline. Now, citizen scientists are deploying drones to help protect the species. Cecilia Connell reports. ...
Russian module suddenly fires thrusters after docking with space station
/ Russian "Nauka" module approaches the International Space Station. (credit: Roscosmos) Flight controllers at NASA and Roscosmos averted a disaster on Thursday
This 3D-printed soft robotic hand beat the first level of Super Mario Bros.
A team led by University of Maryland mechanical engineering Professor Ryan Sochol has created a soft robotic hand agile enough to manipulate a game controller. A team of engineers at the University of Maryland has built a three-fingered soft robotic hand that
Florida, district education test scores drop in math, science, social studies
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Results of 2021 Florida Standards Assessment and End-of-Course Exams dropped significantly this year in math, science and social studies from two years ago before the coronavirus pandemic, according to data from the Florida Department
In Conversation with VFX artist and Youtuber Lokesh Khatri
Interviewer – How was your experience in terms of making career choices and actually enjoying the work you did? Was it new and refreshing or exhausting at times? LOKESH KHATRI – I have always loved working because it keeps me engaged and productive, thus
A process hidden in the depths of the earth swallows more carbon than expected | ...
We now have a good understanding of surface carbon reservoirs and the flow between them, but we do not know about the Earth’s internal carbon stores that have been recycling carbon for millions of years. A team of researchers from the University of
International Space Station briefly loses control
By Kristin Fisher | CNN An unusual and potentially dangerous situation unfolded Thursday at the International Space Station, as the newly-docked Russian Nauka module inadvertently fired its thrusters causing a “tug of war” with the space station
AI Gives ‘Days of Advanced’ Warning in Recent NORTHCOM Networked Warfare Experiment
A new test of information dominance concepts shows how rapid data sharing can accelerate warfare. ...
Colorado beats out Texas for aerospace company’s new research, development headquarters
A California company that has designed a plane capable of vertical take-offs and landings will open its new research and development headquarters in Colorado Springs. Gov. Jared Polis said Thursday that PteroDynamics’ new facility will also focus on
Climate change may be driving sharks to northern shores
Shark sightings have been on the rise this summer up and down the Northeast coastline. Mola Lenghi dives into why climate change could be to blame. ...
Second lab worker with deadly prion disease prompts research pause in France
/ A pathologist examines brain tissue of a diseased deer. The white circular shapes are the sponge-like holes found with prion-related diseases called transmissable spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). (credit: Getty | Star Tribune) Five
Science Museum gagged by sponsorship deal with Shell
Climate change campaigners have condemned the Science Museum for signing an exhibition sponsorship contract with Shell in which it
Survey of astronomers and geophysicists reveals systemic bullying
A survey of astronomers and geophysicists has unveiled a “systemic bullying problem” which is “disproportionately worse” for women and members of minority groups, already under-represented in the field. In a survey of 650 scientists
Curiously Creative: The power of science fiction
Mackenzie Hicks I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been big on science fiction in any form. Sure, I love the stars and space when it’s in photos or the news followed by the letters N-A-S-A, but science fiction — I could take it or leave it. Recently, for a
Physicists at CERN Just Discovered a Brand New Particle
In quantum physics, one breakthrough can quickly lead to several more. This could happen in the wake of a brand new particle recently discovered by a group of scientists with the Large Hadron Collider (LHCb), called Tcc+ and dubbed a tetraquark, according to
North Bay Museum restoring 1928 fire engine
The North Bay Museum is working with a Powassan man to restore and display a 91-year-old fire engine. ...
National Science Foundation selects Carnegie Mellon University researchers to participate in $220 million national AI initiative
The new batch of research institutes will build on the first round of seven of these types of entities that launched in 2020 and that now span 40 states and Washington, D.C. ...
France Calls British Travel Rules ‘Discriminatory,’ Not Science-Based
France’s European Affairs Minister on Thursday called Britain’s decision to lift quarantine requirements for all fully vaccinated travelers arriving from Europe except France “discriminatory and incomprehensible” and said he hopes it is
Greta Thunberg criticises Science Museum over reported Shell ‘gagging clause’
Sections of a contract between the two parties appeared to show an agreement ‘not to damage the goodwill and reputation’ of the company. ...
Ron DeSantis: Resist 'Faucian Dystopia,' Say 'No' to Restrictions and Mandates
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), during a speech at the American
The life sciences industry is booming to the point that office space emptied by the ...
The life sciences industry is booming to the point that office space emptied by the pandemic is being converted into labs. ↩︎ The New York Times View Post → ...
What Was There Before the Big Bang?
The Big Bang was the beginning of everything, according to the current modern science. Literally – everything was created in that instant that happened about 13.8 billion years ago. But what was there before the Big Bang? Image credit: N.R.Fuller,
Peru's Pedro Castillo chooses leftist party colleague Guido Bellido as PMBellido, an electronic engineer, vowed ...
Peru's President Pedro Castillo on Thursday named a prime minister from within his Marxist-Leninist Free Peru party -- 41-year-old Guido Bellido who first became a lawmaker six days ago and has never held public office. Inaugurated in Lima himself just
Cork hospital apologises over care of baby a day after birth
Cork University Maternity Hospital has apologised in the High Court to the parents of triplets over the care of one of the babies a day after birth. Maja Moldysz, from Rathcormac, Co Cork, suffered a “catastrophic event” on the second day of her life and is
Daft withdraws appeal against finding of discrimination in property ads
Property website Daft.ie has agreed to withdraw an appeal it made against a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) decision which found adverts it hosted breached anti-discrimination laws, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has said. The
Getting Preschoolers On Board With Science Of Vision Testing
A novel device designed by researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) to test the eyesight of pre-schoolers has been awarded $1.2 million in the Health Research Council (HRC) Project grants, which will enable the researchers to ... ...
Bill Gates' Terra Power is looking to build a small nuclear reactor in Wyoming
John Sexton Jul 29, 2021 5:25 PM ET Share Tweet Share Tweet There’s a coal power plant near Glenrock, Wyoming called the Dave Johnston Power Plant. Other than the local school district, the plant is the largest employer in Glenrock, employing about 200
Pelosi Bizarrely Declares Reason She Called GOP Leader A “Moron” Is “Science, Science, Science, And ...
Pelosi Bizarrely Declares Reason She Called GOP Leader A “Moron” Is “Science, Science, Science, And Science” Pelosi says “On almost every subject that you can name, science is the answer,” without explaining the what the science is Steve Watson After declaring
Russian lab module docks with space station after 8-day trip
Russia's lab module successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday. ...
Astronomers observe light from behind a black hole for the first time
The researchers, led by Dan Wilkins of Stanford University, observed light from behind a supermassive black hole located in the center of a spiral galaxy called I Zwicky 1. ...
New Russian lab briefly knocks space station askew
Unexpected thruster firings from a new lab module triggered a "tug of war" that briefly knocked the space station askew. ...
Gaeltacht: Just 23% of families raising their children with Irish
Just 23 per cent of families located in the Gaeltacht are raising their children with Irish, according to an in-depth study of Gaeltacht language planning areas. The research gives the most detailed indication yet of the number of families in Gaeltacht areas
Carol Roth: Lockdowns Helped Five Tech Companies Gain Trillions in Value While Collapsing Main Street
Government-decreed lockdowns helped Big Tech gain trillions of dollars in valuation, said Carol Roth, author of The War on Small Business. ...
Atlanta Follows Biden's Surrender, Issues Indoor Mask Mandate with Fines for Violators
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) followed the Biden administration's surrender and issued an executive order requiring people to wear masks in indoor spaces in the city with limited exceptions. ...
NASA has delayed Boeing's spaceship flight after a Russian module pushed the space station out ...
An illustration of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spaceship orbiting Earth. Boeing NASA is delaying a test flight of Boeing's Starliner spaceship after a major space-station mishap. A new Russian module, Nauka, fired its engines unexpectedly and rotated the space
NASA postpones do-over test launch of Boeing Starliner to orbit
A previous uncrewed Starliner test launch to orbit in 2019 ended with a nearly catastrophic failure of the spacecraft to dock with the space station. ...
Over half the deer in Michigan seem to have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2
/ Plague-bearing Bambi? (credit: Cheryl E Davis / Getty Images) On Wednesday, the US Department of Agriculture released some rather disturbing news: a survey of wild deer populations has found that large numbers of the animals
Gut Microbes Help Coordinate Immune Activity in Mice
The microbiota helps align a mouse's innate immune system with its feeding patterns, prepping the animal to fend off infection when it's most likely to be eating. ...
p53 Unleashes Endogenous Retroviruses to Tackle Tumors: Study
New experiments suggest the famous tumor-suppressing protein uses viral elements lingering in the genome to get cancerous cells to announce their presence to the immune system. ...
Groundbreaking Sleep Researcher J. Allan Hobson Dies at 88
He famously contradicted Sigmund Freud's views on the meaning of dreams. ...
Mars' 'hidden underground lakes' might just be frozen clay, which has the exact same radar ...
NASA is exploring Mars with the hopes of looking for fossilized life, but the chances organisms currently exist on the Red Planet may have taken a significant nosedive, according to a new study. What researchers once believed to be lakes of liquid water hiding
Cave of bones: Hyenas have been using lava caverns in Saudi Arabia to store their ...
Tens of thousands of bones, both animal and human, were found covering the floor of a dried-up lava tube in northwestern Saudi Arabia, which experts say was a hyena feasting ground for thousands of years.
Atlas V Heads to Launch Pad
An Atlas V rocket rolls to the launch pad Thursday, July 29, 2021 carrying the Starliner crew capsule. ...
This fossil could be Earth's earliest known animal
A sponge-like fossil dating back approximately 890 million years may be the oldest prehistoric animal on Earth. ...
Liquid core fibers: A data river runs through them
Data and signals can be transmitted quickly and reliably with glass fibers—as long as the fiber does not break. Strong bending or tensile stress can quickly destroy it. An Empa team has now developed a fiber with a liquid glycerol core that is much more robust
Building Blocks: Hinkley Building
A new multistory building is expected to contribute to revitalization in Clackamas' Southgate neighborhood. . ...
Exclusive — Rep. Greg Murphy on Masking Children: 'There Is No Science Behind That'
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC), a physician, said "there is no science behind" masking children in pursuit of reducing the coronavirus transmission. ...
No Transparency: CDC Withholds Data Behind Coronavirus Surrender
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has cited only "unpublished data" as the rationale for its surrender to the Chinese coronavirus, mandating vaccinated people wear masks. ...
'Drunk on Power': Republican Lawmakers Bash Nancy Pelosi's Order to Arrest Maskless Staff, Visitors On ...
Many House Republicans have announced plans to defy House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "unlawful and tyrannical" arrest order. ...
Meat could 'lead you into sin': the story of vegetarianism in Australia
From the strictly religious to a group of nudists, from rioters to corporations, the complicated rise of vegetarianism in Australia has it all. ...
Assured Mission Adaptation of UAVs
UAV is the acronym of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, which we commonly refer to as drones in our day-to-day life. We have seen drones make last-mile delivery easy for delivery companies. Firefighters can use it to aid their firefighting efforts and photographers
Tab2Know: Building a Knowledge Base from Tables in Scientific Papers
Scientists frequently need to analyze data in tabular form. However, irregular layouts and special abbreviations make it hard to process tables automatically. A recent study on arXiv.org offers a way to help researchers get data from tables in scientific
Russia’s Nauka space lab pushes ISS out of position after engine glitch
Russian astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) informed
Paul Goldsmith: Matauranga Māori shouldn't be taught at the expense of science
National has joined the chorus upset at a recent NCEA report putting Māori knowledge on par with its western
Surfside mayor: Why did Miami-Dade delay hiring engineer for probe of condo collapse?
More than a month after the Champlain Towers South fell, Miami-Dade County police are advertising for an engineer to study the Surfside condominium collapse. Surfside’s mayor has a question: What ...
Investigating lymphangiogenesis in vitro and in vivo using engineered human lymphatic vessel networks [Applied Biological Sciences]
The lymphatic system is involved in various biological
Three-color single-molecule imaging reveals conformational dynamics of dynein undergoing motility [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
The motor protein dynein undergoes coordinated
A bending fluctuation-based mechanism for particle detection by ciliated structures [Physics]
To mimic the mechanical response of passive
Outer membrane permeability: Antimicrobials and diverse nutrients bypass porins in Pseudomonas aeruginosa [Microbiology]
Gram-negative bacterial pathogens have an outer
Microplastics destabilize lipid membranes by mechanical stretching [Sustainability Science]
Estimated millions of tons of plastic are dumped
Dodecagonal quasicrystals of oil-swollen ionic surfactant micelles [Chemistry]
A delicate balance of noncovalent interactions directs
Non-Markovian modeling of protein folding [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
We extract the folding free energy landscape and the
Asymmetry in scales enhances learning of new musical structures [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]
Despite the remarkable variability music displays
Orthogonal neural codes for speech in the infant brain [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]
Creating invariant representations from an
Nature of dynamic gradients, glass formation, and collective effects in ultrathin freestanding films [Applied Physical Sciences]
Molecular, polymeric, colloidal, and other classes of
Soluble mannose receptor induces proinflammatory macrophage activation and metaflammation [Immunology and Inflammation]
Proinflammatory activation of macrophages in metabolic
Rotation suppresses giant-scale solar convection [Astronomy]
The observational absence of giant convection cells near
Increased copy number couples the evolution of plasmid horizontal transmission and plasmid-encoded antibiotic resistance [Evolution]
Conjugative plasmids are mobile elements that spread
The contribution of mutation and selection to multivariate quantitative genetic variance in an outbred population ...
Genetic variance is not equal for all multivariate
Mechanoelectric coupling and arrhythmogenesis in cardiomyocytes contracting under mechanical afterload in a 3D viscoelastic hydrogel [Physiology]
The heart pumps blood against the mechanical afterload from
Formation of porous ice frameworks at room temperature [Chemistry]
Bulk crystalline ices with ultralow densities have been
A large-scale study of stress, emotions, and blood pressure in daily life using a digital ...
Stress is often associated with pathophysiologic
High-mass MALDI-MS unravels ligand-mediated G protein-coupling selectivity to GPCRs [Biochemistry]
G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) are important
The p53 transcriptional response across tumor types reveals core and senescence-specific signatures modulated by long ...
The p53 pathway is a universal tumor suppressor
A comparative metabologenomic approach reveals mechanistic insights into Streptomyces antibiotic crypticity [Chemistry]
Streptomyces genomes harbor numerous, biosynthetic gene
Wild-type GBA1 increases the {alpha}-synuclein tetramer-monomer ratio, reduces lipid-rich aggregates, and attenuates motor and cognitive ...
Loss-of-function mutations in acid beta-glucosidase 1
Bargaining council looks into complaint against Blade Nzimande
Before his suspension last Friday, Gwebinkundla Qonde, the director general of higher education and training, had lodged a complaint about unfair labour practices and abuse of power against his boss, Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Blade
Russian Module Unexpectedly Fires Thrusters After Docking to ISS
Serious drama unfolded in low Earth orbit
