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Engineers In Colorado Design Spacecraft To Take Humans To Moon And Beyond
Lockheed presented the lunar lander concept to the International Astronomical Congress (IAC ) in Germany yesterday. ISA and SpaceIL will share data with the U.S. "We're not content with just leaving behind footprints", he said, during the 30-minute speech, reiterating the Trump administration's objective of "establishing a permanent presence around and on the Moon". [Full Article...]
Man displaced by Hurricane Florence accused of raping woman
North Carolina State University entomology professor Michael Reiskind tells The Fayetteville Observer that Florence's floodwater has caused eggs for mosquito species such as the Psorophora ciliata to hatch. "And I'm not even on the side of town that had the major flooding". Thankfully, experts anticipate that the mosquito population will drop off dramatically once the weather gets colder. [Full Article...]
Researchers may have found the first signs of an exomoon
Planets too close to their host stars are less likely to feature moons. Second, 3.5 hours after the dip caused by Kepler-1625b, another Neptune-size dip began-suggesting a moon, trailing after the planet. These enabled astronomers to derive the masses of the planets directly from the transit light curve. "Including rocky exomoons in our search for life in space will greatly expand the places we ca... [Full Article...]
3 win chemistry Nobel; Findings led to best-selling drug
Winter used that method for evolving antibodies with the aim of producing new drugs. " Chemistry is filled with brilliant women, so I think we'll see a steady stream of Nobel prizes awarded to women", says Arnold. The first drug based on this work is used against rheumatoid arthritis , psoriasis and inflammatory bowel disease, the academy said. Virtually all of them build on what went on... [Full Article...]
$40-billion LNG project in BC will proceed
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Shell had previously postponed an FID on LNG Canada in 2016. LNG Canada is expected to start supplying customers with gas before 2025. A clutch of projects are vying for FID, including four mega trains in Qatar, Arctic LNG-2 in Russian Federation, at least one development in Mozambique and several USA projects. [Full Article...]
The Goblin, a dwarf planet, found far beyond Pluto
Measurements seem to show that The Goblin completes a full orbit around the sun once every 40,000 years. For scale, Pluto , which is not a planet, is about 34 AU. They have classified it as an inner Oort Cloud object since it hovers within the shell of distant icy objects covering the Solar System. Its orbit has a larger semi-major axis than both 2012 VP11 and Sedna , so it travels much farthe... [Full Article...]
Traveling to Mars could give you gut cancer, and that’s not good
So, how can we protect spacefarers' guts from radiation damage? The NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) in NY had scientists use mice in their trials. There was also evidence that iron radiation induced DNA damage and increased the number of "senescent" cells that had stopped dividing. One the reasons the GI tract is so vulnerable is because the cells in it are constantly being replaced... [Full Article...]
Chemistry Nobel awarded for groundbreaking research on proteins
The uses of enzymes, developed by her, include more environmental-friendly manufacturing of chemical substances, such as pharmaceuticals, and the production of renewable fuels for a greener transport sector. "I hope that my getting this prize will highlight the fact that, yes, women can do this, they can do it well and that they can make a contribution to the world and be recognized for it", Arn... [Full Article...]