The company Virgin Galactic published photos and videos showing its new third-generation tourist spaceplane ( Space Ship Three ). It was named V S S Imagine and is designed to carry eight people: two pilots and six passengers. Virgin Galactic…
Early Mars most likely had a fairly strong hydrosphere. However, now, because of the low atmospheric pressure, water may exist on the surface of the Red Planet only in the form of ice or water vapor, and in the latter…
Andrey Kruglov, a researcher at the Immunology Department of Moscow State University, has developed a new method for detecting the antigenic response to viral proteins and used it with his German colleagues to study the cause of the severe course…
An international team of researchers has identified a contagious form of cancer in Far Eastern mussels. The disease can negatively affect populations of the mussels, which are actively bred in Russia. The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports.…
The probability that the asteroid Apophis will collide with Earth in the next 100 years is minimal. Such a prognosis after studying the passage of the celestial body in early March, experts NASA. The new information obtained with the help…
Northwest Antarctic ice caps have already been actively melting for reasons unrelated to global warming in the recent past. Such a conclusion was reached by scientists of the University of Tokyo, after examining the core of the Japanese Antarctic base…