Sci-tech
China gets ready for 1st Mars mission
The launch, initially scheduled for Wednesday from the Tanegashima Space Center, has been reset for 6:58 a.m. Monday (2158 GMT Sunday), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the provider of the H-IIA rocket, said Friday. The probe is one of three racing to the Red Planet, with Chinese and United States rockets also taking advantage of the Earth and Mars being unusually close: a mere hop of 55 million kilom... [Full Article...]
Dutch say 25 mink farms now infected with coronavirus
The mink are believed to have been infected by one of the workers. As per the report, results of tests done on 13 July showed that 87 percent of the mink were infected with the virus leading to health authorities ordering the culling of all the 92,700 semi-aquatic animals. [Full Article...]
Scientists shed light on how the blackest fish in the sea 'disappear'
Some of these fish reside 5,000 metres deep. Scientists have now discovered at least 16 species of ultra-black fish, each equipped with specialised skin that allows them to evade detection while hunting or hiding in the dark. The darkest species they found, a tiny anglerfish not much longer than a golf tee, soaks up so much light that nearly none - 0.04% - bounces back to the eye. [Full Article...]
Siberia heatwave 'almost impossible' without climate change
This Sunday, June 21, 2020 photo provided by Olga Burtseva shows an outdoor thermometer indicating 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) around 11 p.m in Verkhoyansk, Sakha Republic, about 4,660 kilometers (2,900 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia. A group of worldwide scientists, including Professor Olga Zolina from Russia's Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, discovered that temperatures were at least two de... [Full Article...]
These Researchers Have Created a Tiny Camera Backpack for Beetles
As well as recording everything an insect sees, it can be used as the "eyes" for small robots. Beetles proved better mounts for the camera than the team's robots, as the robots' vibrations blurred the images unless they stopped every time they took a photo. [Full Article...]
Comet NEOWISE may have sodium tail, new images suggest
Comets are far less predictable than the weather , and after NEOWISE passes, it is unclear when the next chance will come to spot a comet in the night sky. If you miss NEOWISE , you'll only have to wait until the night of August 12 to see another lovely space show. Image credit and copyright: Johnathan Truong. [Full Article...]
Trump tells judge he will keep fighting Vance tax subpoena
President Trump will have less than two weeks to submit new arguments in his case against Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance over a subpoena for financial records, including his tax returns. Mr Consovoy suggested the president believes the new lower-court review can not be quickly resolved. William Consovoy, an attorney for Trump, said they had not yet decided which of the areas they might ch... [Full Article...]
Astronomers discover large galactic wall concealed driving Milky Way
It is one of the biggest structures in space we ever have seen before. It was found out when experts saw galaxies in diverse directions close to it impacted by its gravitational pull. By using the Cosmicflows-3, the researchers were able to keep track of the movements of galaxies behind the Zone of Avoidance . The South Pole Wall remained hidden in plain sight until now and is a so-called c... [Full Article...]