For the first time, China has overtaken the US to become the country with the most popular scientific publications in the world, that is, those with the highest number of cross-citations by other scientists. This most resounding fact is a strong indication that populous China is not only producing a lot of research papers, but […]
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The largest rotating structures in the Universe are discovered: the scale is astounding – illustration
Planets, stars, galaxies and even their clusters revolve in the Universe. The latter is not known for certain, which is why many scientists believe that the phenomenon ends on these huge structures. Meanwhile, cosmologists from the Institute of Astrophysics. Leibniz in Potsdam believe: even cosmic filaments – giant “tubes” from galaxies, rotate. “There are […]
Europe has announced a space mission to Earth’s “evil twin”
The European Space Agency gave the go-ahead for the development of the EnVision mission, which from low orbit explores Venus – the second planet from the Sun and Earth’s neighbor. This was reported by the ESA press release. Scientists hope to shed light on when and how Venus survived the catastrophic greenhouse effect. EnVision […]
Suddenly. Human testicles and brain contain the highest amount of total proteins
In humans, the brain and testicles have the most proteins in common. This was discovered by an international group of scientists, as writes in an article for the journal The Royal Society Open Biology. The authors note that previously there were “some signs of similarity” between the testes and the human brain, and they, […]
SpaceX brings glowing newborn squids and water bears into space – broadcast
On June 3, at 20:29 pm Kiev time, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is to be launched, which will send a Cargo Dragon cargo ship with 3328 kg of cargo on a commercial flight to the International Space Station. The launch will take place from the SLC-39A site in the Space Center. Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, […]
An unknown source of energy is seen in a new panorama of the center of our galaxy – photo
American scientists stitched together 370 separate images and observations of the center of our galaxy in different spectra (mainly X-ray), obtaining an image of unprecedented clarity and completeness. An unknown energy source is visible in this mosaic, the Chandra X-ray Observatory press service writes. The center of the Galaxy is relatively close to us, […]
For the first time, the hydrogen corona of Mars is shown: photos came from the probe الأمل
The probe الأمل (“Hope”) of the first Arab interplanetary mission transmitted data to Earth, according to which scientists have collected the first and almost complete image of the exosphere of Mars – the so-called corona. The press service of the Hope Mars Mission writes about this. On May 10, from an orbit of 20,000 […]
Previously unknown “bridges” of dark matter between galaxies discovered – research
An international group of astrophysicists has developed a new model of the distribution of dark matter in the local Universe using machine learning – and discovered previously unknown filamentous structures-bridges between galaxies in it. They reported this in the Astrophysical Journal, writes SciTechDaily. According to the latest data, the observable Universe consists of 4.9% […]
For the first time in history. Blind 40-year-old man partially restored his sight – helped by genetics
For the first time in the history of medicine, genetic engineering was used to restore partial vision in a blind person: by “correcting” the ganglion cells of the retina, American scientists made them photosensitive again. The research is published in the journal Nature. A 58-year-old man went blind at the age of 18 as […]
Geophysicists have shown a quasicrystal formed by the explosion of the Trinity atomic bomb – photo
At the former nuclear test site in New Mexico, quasicrystals were discovered, which formed on July 16, 1945 after the first ever test of the Trinity atomic bomb. Quartz, feldspar, soil and other materials in the place of detonation melted and under shock and high pressure conditions formed vitreous red trinitite, writes Nature, citing research […]