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Comet surface Tempel 1 contains ice
It was confirmed by the US Space Agency (NASA) after analyzing data collected from the Deep Impact probe. On July 4 last year, the ship crashed into comet Tempel 1, abou…
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Space science
Japanese spacecraft cannot land on asteroids
The Japan Space Agency has announced that its exploration ship failed to land Itokawa's asteroid on November 20. The reason is that problems occur at a height a few mete…
Space science
Detect high energy signals coming from outside the Earth
The astrophysicists have discovered a signal of high-energy galaxies in the Fermi Laboratory data.
Space science
The biggest black hole collision is 9 billion light-years away
Thanks to gravitational wave data, experts discovered a special event that created a supermassive black hole dozens of times more massive than the Sun.
History
December 18, 1987 - Larry Wall released the first version of the Perl programming language
Perl (short for Practical Extraction and Report Language) was built by Larry Wall in 1987, with the main purpose of creating a programming language capable of distilling…
Biology
Amazon forests are being destroyed at an unprecedented speed in the last 10 years
According to data recently provided by the Brazilian Ministry of Environment, the rate of forest trees destroyed in 2018 was 72% higher than in the same period of 2004.
Biology
About 50% of natural history specimens may be being mistakenly named
Up to 50% of natural historical specimens stored in museums around the world may be misquoted.
Biology
Detection and conservation of wild food crops
Scientists have published the most complete data regarding wild plants with relatives with today's popular food crops.
Biology
Detecting new viruses in human gut
Scientists have found a virus that has never been recorded in human gut, according to a new report on the Nature Communications journal.
Biology
He deciphered the ash tree sequence
British scientists have mapped the genome of the British ash tree, in a search to find a way to protect forests from a deadly fungus.
Biology
Important role of wild insects with agriculture
Scientists studying data from 600 fields in 20 countries have found that nourished honey bees are not successful in pollinating crops with wild insects, mostly species.…
Biology
Coffee plants are about to become extinct due to climate change
A new study by British and Ethiopian scientists said that within 70 years, Arabica coffee, an important African coffee tree, will become extinct due to climate change.
Biology
Spider silk is used for electronic computer chips
Spiders and some creatures can use silk to form very strong cocoons or cocoons. But now scientists also detect spider silk that can be used in computer electronics chips.
Biology
Data from satellites help track the world's largest kelp forest
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara University, USA, have developed a new way to study how environmental and climate factors affect giant kelp forest ecosystems on a large sc…
Biology
Set up a genetic database of 10,000 animals
A group of about 70 scientists worldwide have proposed to establish one