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China pushes ahead with plans to build a space defense system
Beijing is looking to build a system capable of effectively monitoring asteroids and changing their course to protect Earth from potential impacts.
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The secret not everyone knows of the elements!
If you are a chemistry person, you are probably familiar with the periodic table, but the truth behind what those elements are is probably not everyone knows.
Space science
If born in space, can humans live normally on Earth?
Biological processes in the weightless environment take place in a different way than on Earth, adaptive mechanisms in the human body must be rebuilt.
Scientific application
Nuclear reactors on… trucks: A chance to score points for the kind of energy that is considered 'poisoning the Earth'
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plans to develop and commercialize nuclear reactors small enough to be transported on trucks by the end of the next decade. The compa…
Space science
Scientists urge people to find 0.5kg of meteorite that fell in the UK
The meteorite that hit Earth last week could break into four pieces, about the size of an egg and be glossy black or brown.
Space science
Angel Wings: Scary future when the galaxy containing the Earth collides
A window into the future has been captured by the Hubble telescope: A view of two equally massive galaxies that make up the object known as the Angel's Wing.
Environment
How did climate shape human evolution?
Climate change is an inevitable fact in the history of the formation and development of the Earth, whereby species that want to survive must change to adapt to this chan…
Space science
3,000 years ago, the sky turned blue and red because of something that 'landed' from space
Legendary descriptions of a cosmic influence in ancient Chinese texts increased its value many times over, as it was the first scientific report of a geomagnetic storm.
Environment
'Decode' the deadliest island on Earth, no one dares to enter
Vozrozhdeniya became the deadliest island on Earth after the appearance of tons of deadly diseases like anthrax, as well as other strange diseases.
History
'Monsters' from the ground that made people disappear for 1,000 years may rise again
The chilling discovery of an event that happened 3,800 years ago in the Atacama death desert serves as a grim warning of a repeatable disaster, far beyond what modern hu…
Space science
The shocking truth about creatures that settled on the Moon thanks to 'smuggling tickets' on spaceships
Human spaceships are not the first victims of undead monsters. They still often smuggle tickets to other Earth creatures when they need to travel far.
Biology
'Strange beast' alive from the primitive earth: Inhaling air, exhaling electricity
The planet Earth billions of years ago had biological power plants... that you had to use a microscope to see.
Oceanography
Sea water suddenly turns red around the super volcano
The waters around the Campi Flegei supervolcano in Italy turn red, signaling increased activity below the water's surface.
Space science
'Tsunami of light' just peeled Mercury into a strange comet
In parallel with the plasma punch that ignited Earth's northern sky recently, the Sun also blasted its nearest planet - Mercury - with a plasma tsunami.
Space science
New discovery of space weather through samples from the Moon
Samples from the Moon brought back by China's Chang'e-5 probe have helped researchers better understand the impact of latitude on space weather.