[ad_1] Genes lost during vampire bats’ evolution may have helped them to adapt to their exclusive blood diet which is high in iron and fluid and low in calories Life 25 March 2022 By Alice Klein A common vampire bat in flight Barry Mansell/naturepl.com Vampire bats are missing several genes found in other bats, which…
[ad_1] MeerKAT radio telescope data (green) show the odd radio circle (ORC) 1, overlaid on optical and near-infrared images from the Dark Energy Survey. J. English (U. Manitoba) / EMU / MeerKAT / DES / DOE / FNAL / DECam / CTIO / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA “Odd radio circles” are, well, odd. These…
[ad_1] It seems everyone in astrophotography (including me!) always gives the same advice to newcomers: Start with a short-focal-length, wide-field telescope. The problem with this advice is that it assumes that everyone wants to take photos of galaxies, nebula, star clusters, etc. But there’s more in the sky than just faint fuzzies. The Moon and…
[ad_1] On this episode of This Week in Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik take a look at how NASA rolled out its massive megarocket, the Space Launch System for the Artemis 1 moon mission, to its Florida launch pad last week. Artemis 1’s SLS booster is the first moon rocket to emerge from NASA’s cavernous…
[ad_1] In 1921 in Chicago, Otylia “Tillie” Kupczyk asked her landlord if she might store a casket in their apartment building’s basement. Tillie had bought the casket on sale, and she had a feeling she would need it soon for her third husband, Frank. She had premonitions he was about to die and she wanted to…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — Scientists have switched off several on-board instruments to halt rising temperatures inside India’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft. The spacecraft carrying India’s first lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1, lifts off from Sriharikota. Mylswamy Annadurai, the project director for the lunar mission, told CNN that temperatures onboard Chandrayaan-1 had risen to 49 degrees…
[ad_1] DNA sequencing has revealed that a bright pink lake on an island off Western Australia gets its colour from a mix of salt-loving bacteria and algae Earth 10 March 2022 By Alice Klein Aerial view of Lake Hillier, Australia Tourism Western Australia The unusual bubblegum pink colour of a remote lake in Western Australia…
[ad_1] Genes lost during vampire bats’ evolution may have helped them to adapt to their exclusive blood diet which is high in iron and fluid and low in calories Life 25 March 2022 By Alice Klein A common vampire bat in flight Barry Mansell/naturepl.com Vampire bats are missing several genes found in other bats, which…
[ad_1] Particles of light called photons can be trapped inside mirrors to form a gas with unusual properties Physics 24 March 2022 By Alex Wilkins The photons are trapped inside two nanoscale mirrors Volker Lannert/University of Bonn A gas made of particles of light, or photons, becomes easier to compress the more you squash it.…
[ad_1] by Jorge Casesmeiro Roger On May 26 U.S. President Biden gave U.S. Intelligence agencies 90 days to report findings about the possible Wuhan lab origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. One component of this investigation, having subpoena power, should focus on the “U.S./Wuhan GoF controversy”. This is the hypothesis that the U.S. National Institutes of…