The engineers guiding its mission had hoped that the six wheeled robot will be back to normal and start signaling back to earth after the storm is past and sunlight touches its panels again but there has been no sign of life from the craft. [Full Article...]
The probe was just six minutes from its closest approach to Ultima Thule , an object formally named 2014 MU69 , which resides in the Kuiper Belt around the outer Solar System. NASA says whether the small, dark pits near on Ultima Thule are impact creators, collapse pits, or something else will be debated by the science team. [Full Article...]
The council will reportedly not be held to the transparency standards the Federal Advisory Committee Act dictates since it is not a formal organization. Attendees at the session, which included acting interior secretary David Bernhardt and senior officials from throughout the government, debated how best to establish a group of researchers that could scrutinize recent federal climate reports. [Full Article...]
The new DNA-like creation by the researchers has been called "hachimoji" DNA - hachi means eight in Japanese, emoji means letter. Instead of using four ingredients, it uses eight. "It pairs predictably, and rules predict its stability". Hachimoji DNA can be copied to make hachimoji RNA, able to direct protein synthesis. "Hachimoji RNA can have a selectable phenotype [physical structure], in this... [Full Article...]
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer said Friday the committee has already heard from the clerk of the Privy Council, Michael Wernick, that "Justin Trudeau had his fingerprints all over this". "I thought it was excellent", said MP Andrew Leslie when asked how the meeting went. There was vigorous debate internally about whether Wilson-Raybould should exercise a legal option to instruct the director of... [Full Article...]
As a result of the savage seas, all 34 beaches on the Gold Coast will remain closed this weekend. Surf Life Saving Queensland has warned people in the state's southeast against swimming at closed beaches amid fears of complacency following the storm weakening. [Full Article...]
If successful, Beresheet would make Israel the fourth nation to land on the moon - along with the United States, Russia and China . Beresheet (Hebrew for "in the beginning") was put together by non-profit outfit SpaceIL to win the Google Lunar XPRIZE . [Full Article...]
Although Mars can no longer host liquid water on its surface, it is possible forms of life are still able to survive below the surface, something the ESA is looking into. "Various channels split off from the central valley, forming little tributaries that often split again on their journey outwards", ESA wrote. The same systems of dendritic structures are visible on Earth, too, in our planet's d... [Full Article...]