The Large Alpine Air Showers Observatory in Sichuan in southwestern China reported a photon with the highest energy ever observed, 1.4 petaelectronvolts (1.4 x 1015 eV). Such a discovery could lead to a serious change in the established ideas about our Galaxy, writes the press service of LHAASO. The results of the study will also […]
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The genomes of the “Spanish” flu virus have been deciphered: evidence of its evolution has been found
A century later, an international team of scientists deciphered the genetic code of the Spanish flu virus that led to the pandemic. Samples for analysis were taken from the lung tissue of two German soldiers, 17 and 18 years old, who died on June 27, 1918 from the “Spanish flu” in Berlin, and a 17-year-old […]
Voyager 1 heard “light rain noise” 23 billion km from Earth: audio from deep space
Launched 44 years ago, the Voyager 1 probe since August 2012 is no longer flying in the heliosphere of the solar system. With the distance from the Sun, solar disturbances at different frequencies subsided, which allowed the apparatus to register a barely noticeable but steady “hum” of extremely rarefied ionized interstellar gas. Writes about this […]
Coronavirus. What should be the second generation vaccine: the development of American biologists
To maximize protection against coronavirus, the next generation of vaccines should target not only the S-protein of viral particles, but also against the N-protein in which the genetic code of the pathogen is “packed”. The authors of two candidate vaccines write about this in the preprints of preclinical studies. Microbiologists from two universities in […]
Why do animals yawn – and people as well. Scientists decided it was not out of boredom: research
The larger the brain in vertebrates and the more neurons per unit volume, the longer they yawn. Such a study was carried out by an international group of scientists, the results were published yesterday in the journal Nature Biology. 1291 yawns were analyzed in 55 mammalian and 46 bird species. The authors went to […]
Humanity Will Launch Interstellar 1,000 Times Farther Than Record-breaking Voyagers
American and European scientists have developed and intend to assemble the Interstellar interstellar probe. Its task is to go beyond the solar system and transmit information about what is happening at a distance of about 1000 times farther than from the Sun to the Earth, writes the European Union of Earth Sciences. The project […]
The Oldest Dwelling Of Human Ancestors Was Found In AfricA: 3D Panorama, Virtual Tour Of The Cave
Archaeologists have discovered the most ancient dwelling of primitive people: this is the Vanderwerk cave (“Miracle” in Afrikaans, – ed.) in the African Kalahari Desert. The researchers reported the find in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. Authors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Toronto claim to have found fragments of […]
Colonization Of Mars Is Getting Closer: Oxygen Was Produced For The First Time On The Red Planet
On April 20, an experimental instrument aboard the Perseverance rover successfully produced oxygen on Mars. This was announced by the NASA subsite dedicated to the Mars 2020 mission. The MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-situ Resource Utilization Experiment) instrument at 800 ° C separates oxygen atoms from carbon dioxide molecules, releasing a by-product, carbon monoxide, into […]
NASA Showed The Brainwashing World Of The “hypnotic Dance” Of A Pair Of Supermassive Black Holes: Video
The US Aerospace Administration showed a visualization of what a pair of supermassive black holes looks like in a binary system. The video shows how these unusual cosmic objects distort the rays of light emitted by their accretion disks – “whirlpools” of gas heated to high temperatures during the prolonged fall of matter to the […]
Scientists Wrote A Genome On A Computer And Put It Into A Bacterium: It Began To Divide – Video
American microbiologists have created a primitive synthetic cell that grows normally and divides with a minimal set of genes. The Cell magazine writes about it. Scientists from the Venter Institute (JCVI) back in 2010 took the most low-organized and self-reproducing organism – mycoplasma, removed its DNA and instead “stuffed” a genetic code of 473 genes […]
