If you knew how some foods are made, you would never eat them. Take, for example, foie gras, a delicacy that supposedly every visitor to France must try. In fact, this dish is the liver of an overfed goose or…
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn the attention of scientists and physicians to mRNA vaccines. As it turned out, they can not only protect against the coronavirus, but also become a powerful weapon against hard-to-treat cancer. This effect occurs when they…
Using data from the Gaia Space Telescope, scientists have created the first catalog of stellar systems from which hypothetical inhabitants can, could in the past or will be able to observe Earth’s transits across the solar disk. With scientific instruments…
China’s National Space Administration has published a series of new records showing the landing of the Mars rover Zhuzhong and its movement on the Martian surface. For example, the first video shows the process of reentry of the descent vehicle…
The image shown shows a dazzling swath of the Milky Way overhanging a mountain range, with a tower in the middle of it. It belongs to the New Technology Telescope (NTT), one of the most important instruments in the history…
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Virgin Galactic permission to fly commercially. This means that the company will be able to carry on SpaceShipTwo not only its employees and test pilots, but also customers who paid money for…