Category: Science

A team of paleontologists describes the discovery of several mosquitoes in 125 million year old Lebanese amber. They represent a new species. Unexpectedly, the males appeared to have piercing proboscis armed with pointed mandibles and were probably bloodsucking like today’s females. An exceptional discovery Female mosquitoes, well known for their hematophagy (feeding on blood), are […]

A few thousand kilometers per hour whip an arc of tiny quartz crystals across the glowing, silicate-rich atmosphere of a distant gas star named WASP-17b. That’s, at a minimum, what the latest analysis from scientists at the James Webb Telescope indicates, This is a new observation. It is an exoplanet situated around 1,300 light years […]

A small mission aimed at testing technology capable of detecting radio waves originating from over 13.4 billion years ago will arrive on the far side of the Moon in 2025. Below are key takeaways from this lunar project. The Universe before Light Before light Our universe as we know it began approximately 13.8 billion years ago […]

Luna-25 was the very first lunar landing module to be launched on November 11, 1905,  by Russia via the Vostochni Cosmodrome. It was launched after more than 50 years to discover an underlying source of water near the south-north pole of the moon, but it was shifted to an incorrect orbit and could result in […]

Dutch psychologists have recently published a simple technique for detecting if someone is a liar. Its effectiveness has been tested in several experiments. The secret lies in the level of specificity of the statements made by the interlocutor. Nearly 80% of the time, we are successful You suspect a friend of lying when he tells […]

Hydrogen-based energy generation technologies, such as fuel cells, are expected to play an important role in the transition to a more sustainable and circular economy. Heraeus Precious Metals and Hulteberg Chemistry & Engineering AB have entered into a strategic partnership to jointly develop and commercialize a range of catalysts required for solid oxide fuel cell […]

2022 will again have been a rich year for space exploration, with notable successes such as the completion of the Artemis 1 lunar mission, the inauguration of the James Webb Telescope and the assembly of the new Chinese space station. However, it is not over. 2023 is also shaping up to be another busy year. […]

NASA’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) moon rocket blew through the launch tower elevator doors during its maiden liftoff last week. The damage remains minor, but this data will be taken into account to prevent such events from happening again. On November 16, nearly 4,000 tonnes of thrust enabled the SLS – the world’s most […]

According to a study, Jupiter’s interior is home to the remains of sunken protoplanets while the future giant was expanding. These results come from the first clear view of the chemistry taking place beneath the planet’s cloudy outer atmosphere. The formation of Jupiter If Jupiter appears today as a huge swirling ball of gas, it […]

A study reports that ribonucleic acid (RNA), a DNA analog believed by many to be the first genetic material of life, forms spontaneously on basalt lava glass. The discovery leaves a few questions unanswered, but provides a surprisingly simple answer to one of science’s most complex questions. Fossil records suggest that life appeared on Earth […]