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Europe postpones launch of planet mission, seeks Soyuz fix
- December 18, 2019
The live telecast of the launch can be clocked from Arianespace . This article was originally published by Business Insider . A technical rocket glitch during the final countdown Tuesday (17 December) pushed back by a day the blastoff of Europe's CHEOPS planet-hunting satellite, launch company Arianespace and Russia's Roscosmos agency said. (more...)
- December 18, 2019
The live telecast of the launch can be clocked from Arianespace . This article was originally published by Business Insider . A technical rocket glitch during the final countdown Tuesday (17 December) pushed back by a day the blastoff of Europe's CHEOPS planet-hunting satellite, launch company Arianespace and Russia's Roscosmos agency said. (more...)
Yesterday Was Australia's Hottest Ever Day On Record
- December 18, 2019
Australia recorded its hottest-ever day on 17 December with the average maximum across the country reaching 40.9 degrees Celsius (105.62 degrees Fahrenheit), the country's Bureau of Meteorology said, as it warned of a heatwave across the more densely-populated southeast that was likely to add fuel to already raging bushfires. (more...)
- December 18, 2019
Australia recorded its hottest-ever day on 17 December with the average maximum across the country reaching 40.9 degrees Celsius (105.62 degrees Fahrenheit), the country's Bureau of Meteorology said, as it warned of a heatwave across the more densely-populated southeast that was likely to add fuel to already raging bushfires. (more...)
Almost 6000-year-old chewing gum reveals life of ancient girl
- December 18, 2019
Based on the human genome , the researchers could tell the birch pitch was chewed by a female. Almost 5,700 years ago, a woman followed up a meal of hazelnuts and duck with an after-dinner trick many of us still use today: she chewed a piece of gum. (more...)
- December 18, 2019
Based on the human genome , the researchers could tell the birch pitch was chewed by a female. Almost 5,700 years ago, a woman followed up a meal of hazelnuts and duck with an after-dinner trick many of us still use today: she chewed a piece of gum. (more...)
Losing weight after age 50 linked to lower breast cancer risk
- December 18, 2019
Women who lost 4.5 to 9 kg (10- 20 lbs.) had a 16% lower risk (HR=0.84, 95% CI: 0.73-0.96). "We're so thankful to be able to say it's not too late to lower your risk if you've previously gained weight , even after age 50", says study co-author Lauren Teras, scientific director of epidemiology research at the American Cancer Society . (more...)
- December 18, 2019
Women who lost 4.5 to 9 kg (10- 20 lbs.) had a 16% lower risk (HR=0.84, 95% CI: 0.73-0.96). "We're so thankful to be able to say it's not too late to lower your risk if you've previously gained weight , even after age 50", says study co-author Lauren Teras, scientific director of epidemiology research at the American Cancer Society . (more...)
There's Buried Treasure on Mars - Here's NASA's Treasure Map
- December 17, 2019
We have known that there is water ice on Mars since 2008, and according to this new research, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on Tuesday, NASA is continually discovering more and more of the same. Researchers have created the first map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of a planet besides Earth, using data from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft that were collected during the last two years. (more...)
- December 17, 2019
We have known that there is water ice on Mars since 2008, and according to this new research, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on Tuesday, NASA is continually discovering more and more of the same. Researchers have created the first map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of a planet besides Earth, using data from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft that were collected during the last two years. (more...)
World's Deepest Land Canyon Discovered in Antarctica
- December 16, 2019
A HIGH-PRECISION map of Antarctica's ice sheet bed is set to help scientists predict the impact of climate change on the frozen continent. "The newly released Antarctica topography map, BedMachine Antarctica , and related findings were published today [Thursday] in the journal Nature Geoscience ", the article said. (more...)
- December 16, 2019
A HIGH-PRECISION map of Antarctica's ice sheet bed is set to help scientists predict the impact of climate change on the frozen continent. "The newly released Antarctica topography map, BedMachine Antarctica , and related findings were published today [Thursday] in the journal Nature Geoscience ", the article said. (more...)
COP25 negotiators reach climate deal — UN Climate Summit
- December 15, 2019
What is the evidence for global warming? Green activists dumped horse manure and staged a mock hanging outside the venue of a United Nations climate summit in Madrid on Saturday, airing their frustration at the failure of world leaders to take meaningful action against global warming. (more...)
- December 15, 2019
What is the evidence for global warming? Green activists dumped horse manure and staged a mock hanging outside the venue of a United Nations climate summit in Madrid on Saturday, airing their frustration at the failure of world leaders to take meaningful action against global warming. (more...)
Musk's SpaceX Launches Second Batch of Starlink Satellites
- December 15, 2019
The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, which flew in three previous missions, landed back on a drone ship about 8 1/2 minutes after the launch. When your big task is to provide internet connection to the entire world, that means sending 60 satellites into the stratosphere. (more...)
- December 15, 2019
The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, which flew in three previous missions, landed back on a drone ship about 8 1/2 minutes after the launch. When your big task is to provide internet connection to the entire world, that means sending 60 satellites into the stratosphere. (more...)
NASA's Juno Probe Spotted Massive Cyclones On Jupiter, Once Again
- December 15, 2019
Maybe the JIRAM data from future flybys will show the cyclone growing to the same size as its neighbors". NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a storm the scale of Texas swirling close to Jupiter's south pole. "We are beginning to grasp it through observations and computer simulations". Scientists believe that more data provided by the Juno spacecraft will help to reshape human understanding about the formation and evolution of cyclones in Jupiter . (more...)
- December 15, 2019
Maybe the JIRAM data from future flybys will show the cyclone growing to the same size as its neighbors". NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a storm the scale of Texas swirling close to Jupiter's south pole. "We are beginning to grasp it through observations and computer simulations". Scientists believe that more data provided by the Juno spacecraft will help to reshape human understanding about the formation and evolution of cyclones in Jupiter . (more...)
NASA picks the spot on asteroid Bennu
- December 15, 2019
This is an image of the asteroid Bennu was taken by the navigation camera aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at about 10 p.m. ET on October 26, 2019, during a flyby that brought the spacecraft within a little more than half a mile, or 1 kilometer, of Bennus surface. (more...)
- December 15, 2019
This is an image of the asteroid Bennu was taken by the navigation camera aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at about 10 p.m. ET on October 26, 2019, during a flyby that brought the spacecraft within a little more than half a mile, or 1 kilometer, of Bennus surface. (more...)
World's First Female Spacewalking Team Makes History
- December 15, 2019
As NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, whose father is Israeli, completed the job with wrenches, screwdrivers and power-grip tools, it marked the first time in a half-century of spacewalking that men weren't part of the action. (more...)
- December 15, 2019
As NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, whose father is Israeli, completed the job with wrenches, screwdrivers and power-grip tools, it marked the first time in a half-century of spacewalking that men weren't part of the action. (more...)
Florida Experiments Hitch Ride On Blue Origin West Texas Rocket Launch
- December 13, 2019
The corporate acknowledged that it's working towards taking other folks to accommodate. The one which flew on Wednesday had already completed five previous launches. "We're going to ask K through 12 students to send us postcards with their dreams of the future and then we are going to send them to space on New Shepard , bring them back and mail them back". (more...)
- December 13, 2019
The corporate acknowledged that it's working towards taking other folks to accommodate. The one which flew on Wednesday had already completed five previous launches. "We're going to ask K through 12 students to send us postcards with their dreams of the future and then we are going to send them to space on New Shepard , bring them back and mail them back". (more...)
The Year's Biggest Meteor Shower Peaks This Month
- December 12, 2019
The Geminids are worth watching for one or two mornings before the peak; there will be slightly less moonlight interference, and some locations will get a short moonless period before morning twilight. Geminids are pieces of debris from 3200 Phaethon, basically a rocky skeleton of a comet, or an asteroid, that lost most of its outer covering of ice after too many close encounters with the sun. (more...)
- December 12, 2019
The Geminids are worth watching for one or two mornings before the peak; there will be slightly less moonlight interference, and some locations will get a short moonless period before morning twilight. Geminids are pieces of debris from 3200 Phaethon, basically a rocky skeleton of a comet, or an asteroid, that lost most of its outer covering of ice after too many close encounters with the sun. (more...)
Come 2020, NASA to send one more rover to Mars
- December 12, 2019
For assisting in the hunt of water on neighbouring Mars , NASA has issued a treasure map of the potential ice locations on the red planet . The map above points out a lot of blue and purple hues in this region and they represent water ice less than one foot ( 30 centimeters ) below the surface, while warm colors are over two feet (60 centimeters) deep. (more...)
- December 12, 2019
For assisting in the hunt of water on neighbouring Mars , NASA has issued a treasure map of the potential ice locations on the red planet . The map above points out a lot of blue and purple hues in this region and they represent water ice less than one foot ( 30 centimeters ) below the surface, while warm colors are over two feet (60 centimeters) deep. (more...)
December ‘cold’ full moon is the decade’s last
- December 12, 2019
That's also within 15 minutes of sunset for each city; full moons, since they're opposite the sun in our sky, always rise at sunset. Because of the early-morning timing of its maximum phase on Thursday, the moon will look full Wednesday night, Thursday night and Friday night. (more...)
- December 12, 2019
That's also within 15 minutes of sunset for each city; full moons, since they're opposite the sun in our sky, always rise at sunset. Because of the early-morning timing of its maximum phase on Thursday, the moon will look full Wednesday night, Thursday night and Friday night. (more...)
Final full moon of 2019 -- will it bring cooler weather?
- December 12, 2019
The full moon in December, known as the Cold Moon is the last moon of the year - and the last of the decade - and it gets brighter and early Wednesday. The Naked Numerology account on Twitter informed followers that the 2019 full moon opens a 12:12:12:12 "portal" that will lead to a "turning point" for people. (more...)
- December 12, 2019
The full moon in December, known as the Cold Moon is the last moon of the year - and the last of the decade - and it gets brighter and early Wednesday. The Naked Numerology account on Twitter informed followers that the 2019 full moon opens a 12:12:12:12 "portal" that will lead to a "turning point" for people. (more...)
Greta Thunberg is 'Time' magazine's Person of the Year 2019
- December 11, 2019
The TIME cover story on Thunberg cites her meteoric rise throughout the year as she raised awareness about the need to curb carbon emissions to prevent the most catastrophic effects of an overheating planet . Three people at the center of the impeachment proceedings against President Trump - including the president himself - were also in the running for Person of the Year. (more...)
- December 11, 2019
The TIME cover story on Thunberg cites her meteoric rise throughout the year as she raised awareness about the need to curb carbon emissions to prevent the most catastrophic effects of an overheating planet . Three people at the center of the impeachment proceedings against President Trump - including the president himself - were also in the running for Person of the Year. (more...)
A ‘BLACK’ supermoon will rise tomorrow in the sky
- December 11, 2019
Here's everything you need to know about this astronomical event. A new study spearheaded by Earth scientists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Geology and Mineralogy has constrained the age of the Moon to approximately 50 million years after the formation of the solar system. (more...)
- December 11, 2019
Here's everything you need to know about this astronomical event. A new study spearheaded by Earth scientists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Geology and Mineralogy has constrained the age of the Moon to approximately 50 million years after the formation of the solar system. (more...)
NASA Blows Hole In World's Largest Rocket Fuel Tank (On Purpose)
- December 11, 2019
It will offer a close-up look at the core stage of the first Space Launch System ( SLS ) rocket. With this last hurdle overcome (it was the largest-ever controlled test-to-failure of a NASA rocket stage pressurized tank), and the previous ones aced, the fuel tank (not the one that blew up, of course) is deemed ready for operation. (more...)
- December 11, 2019
It will offer a close-up look at the core stage of the first Space Launch System ( SLS ) rocket. With this last hurdle overcome (it was the largest-ever controlled test-to-failure of a NASA rocket stage pressurized tank), and the previous ones aced, the fuel tank (not the one that blew up, of course) is deemed ready for operation. (more...)
Melting Greenland ice 'could leave 400 million homeless by end of century'
- December 11, 2019
A team of 89 polar scientists from 50 global organisations have produced the most complete picture of Greenland ice loss to date. "Their satellite observations show that both melting and ice discharge from Greenland have increased". In summer 2019, unusually warm air caused widespread melting across the entire ice sheet . Greenland's ice sheet is melting much faster than previously thought, threatening hundreds of millions of people with inundation and bringing some of the irreversible ... (more...)
- December 11, 2019
A team of 89 polar scientists from 50 global organisations have produced the most complete picture of Greenland ice loss to date. "Their satellite observations show that both melting and ice discharge from Greenland have increased". In summer 2019, unusually warm air caused widespread melting across the entire ice sheet . Greenland's ice sheet is melting much faster than previously thought, threatening hundreds of millions of people with inundation and bringing some of the irreversible ... (more...)
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