Biochemists FITs biotechnology RAS as part of an international team of scientists deciphered the mechanism underlying the activation of orange carotenoid protein – photoreceptor cyanobacteria, protecting them from excessive exposure to light. The creation of a unique mutant variant and…
Falcon 9 first stage makes record tenth flight The Falcon 9 rocket was launched on May 9 from the Cape Canaveral Cosmodrome. It successfully delivered into orbit the 27th working batch of spacecraft Starlink. But the main focus of the…
The TESS space telescope is designed to detect exoplanets using the transit method. But, as is often the case in astronomy, the device began to be used for additional tasks and managed to make a number of unplanned discoveries. For…
The PSP probe (Parker Solar Probe) passed its eighth perihelion on April 29. This convergence was a record: the device flew at a distance of 10.4 million kilometers (0.07 AU) from the solar surface, and its heliocentric velocity exceeded 532…
Chinese experts have successfully completed the installation of the Changcheng-5B heavy rocket on the launch pad of the Wenchang Cosmodrome. The launch is scheduled for April 29, which will be an important milestone for China’s manned space program. The fact…
In 2025, Russia plans to withdraw from the ISS project and start building its own orbital station. A statement to this effect was made by Roscosmos management and published on the corporation’s website. The station will be launched into a…
Staff from INGG SB RAS together with colleagues from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, CANS proposed an updated correlation scheme between Upper Jurassic (163.5 million years – 145 million years ago) and Lower Cretaceous (145 million years –…
Mount Wilzenberg, where the weapons were found, was considered a particularly revered place since the III century BC. German archaeologists have discovered a huge treasure trove of weapons dating back to the Iron Age, reports Archaeologynews. During 3 years of…
Only modern man is able to think abstractly. A group of experts from around the world during the study of the genomes of modern humans, Neanderthals and their common distant ancestors and relatives, came to the conclusion that only modern…
We live in an amazing time when space missions are being sent to the stars, humans are beginning to explore the moon, and robots are becoming full-fledged crew members. But there are still simple questions that we will give simple…