The Rare “Extraterrestrial Mud Ball” – Researchers Studied the Meteorite That Fell in Costa Rica
Back in April, residents in Aguas Zarcas, a small town in Costa Rica, witnessed a “large fireball in the sky” approaching the city. It was a meteorite the size of a washing machine, but before hitting the ground, it broke into small pieces, raining over…
The Lunar Library Contains Data Embedded Into Nickel
In 2018, the Arch Mission Basis was an archive in Elon Musk’s glove compartment. The archive contained Isaac Asimov’s Basis trilogy, inscribed in a quartz disk that uses experimental 5D optical technology. But this method of storing important data has some limitations. The storage methods…
New Dinosaur Species Discovered Shows The Creature Had Membranous Bat-like Wings
In 2017, a farmer from northeastern China (Wubaiding village) found a fossil that turned out to belong to a dinosaur. But Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Min Wang knew there was something special about this specimen. After a complete analysis, Wang and his co-authors reached an…
The Economic Impact of Melting Permafrost in the Arctic is set to $70 trillion
A study on the impact of melting ice coats in the Arctic that has been conducted by Dimitry Yumashev and a team of researchers at Lancaster University, was published on the journal Nature Communications on April 23. The study is entitled “Climate policy implications of…
NASA arrives at Phrase C in its scheduled mission to asteroid 16 Psyche
With less than a month separating us from a key aspect of review approval, released data on the NASA’s “16 Psyche” mission is becoming clearer. The expedition’s goal is to get close to an asteroid named 16 Psyche in our local main asteroid belt, which,…
The Haystack Observatory in Westford Had a Big Role in the Black Hole’s Image
Wednesday, April 7, 2019, was a great day in humankind history. The National Science Foundation shared the first image of a black hole! The impressive black hole is inside the Virgo Galaxy, also known as Messier 87. The image was captured in 2017, and until…