Sci-tech
NASA seeks social isolation experts to spend 8 months in Russian lab
Four Russians and two Americans are part of the global crew that spent the duration of the analog mission in Russia's Institute for Biomedical Problems' Nazemnyy eksperimental'nyy kompleks (NEK) facility. There are a variety of necessities candidates want, together with being a US citizen between 30 and 55 years outdated, being proficient in Russian and English, and having a school diploma, ideall... [Full Article...]
Satellites and spacecraft malfunction as Earth's magnetic field mysteriously weakens
Scientists from European Space Agency (ESA) from the Swarm Data, Innovation and Science Cluster (DISC) are using this data from ESA's Swarm satellite constellation to study the anomaly. For years, the weakened field has been on the experts' radar - they know it has lost nine percent of its intensity over the past 200 years. After analyzing data collected by Swarm, researchers found that the stre... [Full Article...]
Falcon 9, Crew Dragon In Position At Launch Pad
And on Monday (May 25) comes the final launch readiness review, which will incorporate analyses of the data from the static fire and the dry dress along with other information, NASA officials said. "We're living the dream", he said. President Donald Trump has indicated he wants to witness the launch. A photo released by NASA on Thursday showed the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon being raised i... [Full Article...]
Wuhan bans eating wild animals in wake of coronavirus pandemic
Local authorities of Wuhan , a city with 11 million inhabitants, chose to ban not only the eating of all wild animals but also their hunting, declaring the territory a wildlife sanctuary. Two central provinces in China have already outlined details of the buy out programme to help breeders transition to alternative livelihoods. Local authorities have also launched compensation programs to enc... [Full Article...]
Trump may watch SpaceX's 1st astronaut launch for NASA in person
U.S. astronauts have been flying to the ISS on Russian Soyuz rockets since the space shuttle program ended in 2011. A photo released by NASA on Thursday showed the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon being raised into a vertical position on Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A, which was also used for the Apollo and space shuttle programs. [Full Article...]
Renewables installations to shrink 13% this year: IEA
Dr Fatih Birol , executive director of the IEA, praised the resilience of renewable electricity as good news, but warned that it can not be taken for granted. "Putting emissions into a structural decline needed renewables to grow much faster across all sectors even before the COVID-19 crisis", the report said. [Full Article...]
NASA Has Discovered There's a 'Parallel' Universe where Time Runs Backwards
In a scenario that sounds straight out of science fiction, a team of NASA scientists may have detected evidence of a parallel universe - where time runs in reverse. Not everyone, however, was comfortable with the hypothesis. CNET notes that the initial report claiming that scientists found evidence of a parallel universe appears on New Scientist in an article behind a paywall that may ha... [Full Article...]
Mysterious 'First-of-Its-Kind' Trojan Asteroid is Detected by Astronomers
These objects initially appear to be asteroids, and later develop activity, such as tails, that are typical of comets . A new kind of space rock that is a crossover between an asteroid and a comet - called an active asteroid - has been spotted sharing an orbit with Jupiter . [Full Article...]