The danger that this might occur in the future, however, led the study authors to urge closer monitoring of this flu virus. This new strain is believed to be a combination of three flu strains: A/H1N1, found in European and Asian birds, and a North American H1N1 that has genes from bird, human, and pig influenza viruses. [Full Article...]
Joseph James DeAngelo Jr ., who worked as a police officer during that time, dodged arrest for four decades before being apprehended in 2018. I know many of them rightfully believed that this day would never come. "The family members of the murder victims have waited for decades for justice for their loved ones, the sexual assault victims have waited decades for justice", she said. [Full Article...]
The mission today will take off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the Falcon 9 booster used for this mission has flown four times previously, including for Crew Dragon's first uncrewed demonstration mission, as well as twice before for earlier Starlink missions. [Full Article...]
Antarctica's temperature varies widely according to season and region, and for years it had been thought that the South Pole had stayed cool even as the continent heated up. Antarctica's interior has been found to have faced the most drastic climate shifts over the last 30 years and scientists think these abrupt changes are going to continue. [Full Article...]
NASA astronaut Doug Hurley tweeted last Sunday: "We flew over this Saharan dust plume today in the west central Atlantic". Wilkinson compared Saharan air layers to thunderstorms. The dust cloud arrived in Tulsa on Saturday. 'There's emerging evidence of potential interactions between air pollution and the risk of COVID, so at this stage we are concerned, ' said Gregory Wellenius, an professor ... [Full Article...]
Commander Chris Cassidy said the mirror quickly floated away. Right now, the mirror will be one of the vast collections fo space junk that orbit around the planet. It is hard to work with since each battery is about a meter tall and wide, and weighs 400 pounds each. Their spacewalks are expected to continue through July before Behnken returns to Earth in August aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule. [Full Article...]
Since launching in February 2010, the NASA probe has documented the Sun with daily high-resolution photography. The Solar Dynamic Observatory of NASA has been looking over the Sun's activities for the past decade every day. And though NASA's SDO has watched the Sun without respite for 10 years, there are notable anomalies during the time-lapse. The custom music for the video is titled "Solar... [Full Article...]
Both of them are close to the habitable zone of the system, which is actually closer to the star compared to the zone where the Earth is because Gliese 887 is smaller and dimmer than the Sun. A study led by the University of Göttingen reports the discovery of a system of super-Earth planets orbiting nearby of red dwarf Gliese 887 or GJ 887 and may possibly possess conditions that can harbor life... [Full Article...]