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Scientist harvests radish crop at International Space Station, NASA shares video
NASA said that astronauts successfully grew radishes on board the International Space Station for the first time in NASA history. "Radish is found in the Advanced Plant Habitat". Is grown. Advanced plant Habitat is the chamber of development for the research of plants. 'Replicating the plant experiment increases the sample size and improves scientific accuracy'. [Full Article...]
Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory 'not closing' after collapse
The fall of this mythical observatory shocked the scientific community, and in particular the astronomers and astrophysicists who had consulted the vast database of the radio telescope for several decades. Has been in operation for over half a century The Observatory played an important role Creation and behavior of the Earth's upper atmosphere Using powerful lasers to observe deep space targets... [Full Article...]
New billion-star 3D map of Milky Way 'most detailed ever'
More specifically, scientists measured the acceleration of our solar system relative to the movement of distant galaxies captured by the cutting-edge observatory. "These data are one of the backbones of astrophysics", he added. Gaia will continue gathering data until at least 2022, with a possible mission extension until 2025. [Full Article...]
Maths Paper 2 and Physical Science Paper 2 to be re-written
The department says it and other roleplayers considered three options: a national re-write, a national Maths re-write and a selective re-write of Physical Science or no re-write. Motshekga said following an assessment of the leaks, it was concluded that the integrity of the exams was compromised. Last week, Themba Daniel Shikwambana, 31, was arrested following a Hawks Serious Corruption Unit inv... [Full Article...]
Chinese scientists achieve quantum computational advantage_英语频道_央视网
This leap in the technology puts China among the top world leaders in the race of quantum computing . A team of scientists, led by Jian-Wei Pan and Chao-Yang Lu of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Shanghai, claims to have demonstrated the feat of quantum supremacy by performing certain computations almost 100 trillion times faster than the world's most advanced su... [Full Article...]
NASA reveals that Earth's 'Mini Moon' 2020 SO is definitely space junk
That's when they realized the steel they were looking at it had been in space for 54 years, exposed to radiation and other hazards, and they set out to find a way to verify what such an object would look like now. What is a close approach? Nasa has confirmed that an object spotted by its asteroid-hunting facilities was actually something else entirely. Paul Chodas, researcher at the Center for... [Full Article...]
United States limits Chinese Communist Party member visas
He said China is engaged in a "massive influence campaign" targeting U.S. lawmakers of Congress and congressional aides to push local politicians to take a softer line on China. The nation's top intelligence official just unloaded on China in unusual fashion. The administration has previously imposed sanctions on Chinese businesses and individuals, including party officials, and has tried to drive... [Full Article...]
Fauci apologizes for suggesting United Kingdom rushed vaccine decision
Britain on Wednesday became the first Western nation to authorize widespread use of a COVID-19 vaccine when regulators gave emergency approval to a product made by US drugmaker Pfizer and Germany-based BioNTech. Fauci had earlier described Britain's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) as having "ran around the corner of the marathon and joined it in the last mile" and "rushe... [Full Article...]