Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have observed the smallest exoplanet to have water vapor in its atmosphere. Planet GJ...
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The historic journey of Ingenuity, the first Earth-based helicopter on Mars, has come to an end
Originally designed as a technology demonstration to perform up to five experimental test flights over 30 days, the first off-planet...
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NASA’s DSOC sent video using a laser to Earth from a distance of 31 million kilometers
Following successful testing of DSOC technology in Earth orbit and on the Moon, NASA is now using deep space optical...
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Antarctica: Humanity still has time to prepare for rapidly rising sea levels
Antarctica's glaciers are melting at a catastrophic rate, but humanity still has time to prepare for rapidly rising sea levels....
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The largest living organism on Earth is the mycelium of the honey fungus, its age is more than 2.5 thousand years
The honey mushroom is recognized as the largest living organism in the world. Or rather, not he himself, but his...
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The oldest forests on Earth are over 32 million years old
Kelp forests arose on the floor of the Pacific Ocean at least 32 million years ago, not 14-15 million years...
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Pakistan-India relations are united by air pollution
Delhi and Lahore have been named the most polluted cities in the world. Pakistani Lahore was once called the “city...
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Getting closer to Jurassic Park – Harvard scientists clone mammoths
The woolly mammoth shares 99.6% of its DNA with the Asian elephant, leading scientists to believe they are well on...
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Japan’s Sniper Moon (SLIM) probe lands on the Moon
On January 19, 2024, Japan's national robotic spacecraft SLIM landed on the lunar surface, marking a huge success for Japan,...
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Dagestan, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan announced an environmental disaster in the Caspian Sea
The water level in the Caspian Sea is rapidly decreasing; since 1996, the water level in the Caspian Sea has...
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A wall of 17 artificial islands in the Pacific Ocean with a total length of 24 kilometers will be built around the capital of Indonesia
Jakarta, a metropolis of 10 million, is recognized as the most sinking city in the world. Every year the capital...
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Increased volcanic activity has been recorded in Japan and Iceland
Volcanoes in seismically troubled island states have shown increased activity. A state of emergency has been declared in the south...
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Scientists have grown a mini-biocomputer from human stem cells – Brainoware
Bioengineers from Indiana University in the US have combined lab-grown human brain tissue with microelectrodes. The scientists called their creation...
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Researchers are studying layers of water ice on Mars
Mars appears to be a dry world now, but there are plenty of signs on the planet's surface that there...
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The Arctic, Antarctica and Greenland have received special attention from organizations involved in space research
The Russian satellite constellation Arktika-M, launched in 2021 and 2023, transmitted the first images of the Arctic region and surrounding...
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The UN and UNESCO drew attention to the problems of artificial intelligence
“The existential risk does not come from a robot-created Armageddon that will lead to our demise. The real existential risk...
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Glaciers in northern Greenland have shrunk by more than a third in volume, and Greenland was ice-free a million years ago
Even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, the ice sheet would lose more than 110 trillion tons of...
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The USA and China are the main competitors in the Moon race
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is not concerned that China will beat the United States to returning astronauts to the Moon....
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The NASA/JAXA XRISM mission investigates the composition and physical state of space objects by detecting X-ray radiation
Invisible to our eyes, X-rays emitted by the hot gas that fills much of the Universe can shed light on...
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Seismic activity in Japan remains high
The death toll from earthquakes in Japan has reached 128 people, reports the Japanese newspaper Tokyo Shimbun. According to the...
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Uranus and Neptune are actually the same blue color, new color images show
While Voyager 2's familiar images of Uranus were released in a form closer to "true" color, the images of Neptune...
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NASA launches a new project – STASH to study the possibilities of slow metabolism in animals and humans (hibernation)
The use of non-model organisms in medical research is an expanding field that has already had a significant impact on...
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NASA has recognized the existence of life on Mars in the past and present
The goal of the NIAC project is to collect the necessary samples before human arrival on Mars, planned by NASA,...
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Top 12 unusual exoplanets discovered in 2023
In 2023, scientists discovered several stunning exoplanets. Last year, planetary scientists added a number of exciting new worlds to the...
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The James Webb Space Telescope has proven that complex organic compounds are present even in the most ancient galaxies of the Universe
The James Webb Space Telescope is capable of searching the "carbonaceous" atmospheres of exoplanets to search for alien life. “We...
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The beginning of 2024 was marked by an earthquake in Japan and the threat of a tsunami in the Primorsky Territory
Earthquake on the Noto Peninsula: Seismologists in Japan recorded more earthquakes in the first two days after the onset of...
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The European Space Agency has announced a space economy in collaboration with international partners
From managing climate change to emergency response and digitizing the economy, space exploration is becoming increasingly important to life on...
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The scientific community is studying the Apophis asteroid approaching Earth
Scientists estimate that asteroids the size of Apophis, about 367 yards across, come this close to Earth only once every...
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NASA has begun colonizing the Moon
The world's industrial giants have rushed in pursuit of helium-3 in order to achieve “cosmic” successes in nuclear energy. “Lunar...
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The era of liquid water on Mars ended three billion years ago
Chinese scientists have concluded that groundwater on Mars under the Utopia Planitia remained active until the Amazonian (recent) period of...
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Massive natural and industrial sources of greenhouse gases are accelerating warming
Leaks of methane and carbon dioxide from the ocean floor, from cracks in the ground, industrial leaks and emissions from...
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Modern humanity lives in the era of the sixth species extinction
Humanity is in the midst of a sixth mass extinction event - a man-made extinction event. Global warming, which causes...
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The operator of the emergency Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant discharges low-level radioactive water, but in very large quantities
According to the company's materials, the concentration of tritium in the water to be discharged is 55-77 becquerels per liter,...
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Scientists observe increased amounts of salt in water bodies
The global salt cycle in nature is disrupted, which leads to salinization of fresh water, and the distribution of salt...
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Russia and the United States expect to develop the resources of the Moon in the coming decades
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to begin test mining on the Moon before 2032. At the first...
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Humanity lives in a new geological era – the Anthropocene
In 2011, Nobel laureates concluded that the term "Anthropocene" could be a useful way to describe and summarize the situation...
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Blast from the past: a gamma-ray burst hit the Earth from a distant exploding star
A huge burst of gamma rays detected by the European Space Agency's Integral space telescope has hit Earth. The explosion...
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NASA demonstrates optical communications for deep space operations
DSOC, an experiment that could change the way spacecraft communicate, has sent data using a laser to and from the...
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Mars has its own aurora
A Mars probe has discovered that the Red Planet's atmosphere glows green at night. Scientists have observed the night glow...
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ARRAKIHS dark matter satellite will be launched in 2030
The mission is planned to study the dark matter halo of 75 different galaxies - a hypothetical component of galaxies...
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The European Space Agency has signed a contract to create its own space station, Starlab
Beginning in 2027, Starlab will maintain a permanent human presence in low Earth orbit, operated by Voyager Space and Airbus....
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European Institute for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence uses new radio frequency technologies
The SETI Institute received $200 million to search for evidence of alien life. The new funding will allow the SETI...
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Scientists are really into animal cloning
Cloning is a reality of our time; similar scientific activities are carried out all over the world; most often, pets...
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Its Own Flora and Fauna
Scientists have discovered more than 40 species of animals living in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage...
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Roscosmos extended the operation of the Russian segment of the ISS until 2028
Earlier, Roscosmos General Director Yuri Borisov reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the decision made to withdraw from the...
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DART mission changed the trajectory of an asteroid using a spacecraft
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photographs of the rapid changes to the asteroid Dimorphos when it...
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In Turkey, a series of earthquakes killed more than 45 thousand people and created a giant tectonic fault
In Turkey, a series of earthquakes killed 45,089 people, Anadolu Agency reports, citing data from the Turkish Disaster and Emergency...
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Forest fires are raging in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, residential buildings have been damaged, there is a victim
Aviation was brought in to extinguish wildfires in the Emelyanovsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the press service of the...
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New Delhi was blanketed in toxic smoke from a burning landfill amid extreme heat. The country recorded record high temperatures in more than 120 years
In India, on the outskirts of New Delhi, a landfill burned down. The flames engulfed a mountain of garbage taller...
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In the Kurgan region, about 1,300 residents were evacuated from settlements affected by major fires
Together with employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, more than 1,270 citizens were evacuated from settlements threatened by a...
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Roscosmos: nuclear tug “Zeus” will go to explore the natural satellites of Jupiter
Today, the satellites of Jupiter - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto - attract the closest attention of scientists around the...
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Scientists are discovering new species of animals on Earth
Experts have yet to discover several hundred more species of mammals. In addition, 5,000 viruses unknown to science were discovered...
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Lunar Mission: Polar Moon Craters Become Cold Traps and Capable of Preserving Water Ice
Planetary scientists have found that magnetic anomalies in the region of the Moon's south pole can protect deposits of water...
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One of the most active volcanoes in the world in Kamchatka threw out two columns of ash to a height of up to 10 thousand meters
According to seismic data, on April 20, ash emissions occurred at the Karymsky volcano to a height of 6 thousand...
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Tropical Storm Mega kills 224 people in Southeast Asia
Tropical Storm Mega made landfall on the islands of Samar, Biliran and Leyte in the eastern Philippines on April 10-12....
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Large-scale floods and landslides continue in South America
Typically, the rainy season in Colombia begins in August, but this year some areas of the country were hit by...
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The average tropopause heights of the Earth’s atmosphere have changed
The tropopause is a powerful retaining layer that prevents the vertical transport of aerosols and water vapor. The height of...
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Reluctant treatment: water bodies around the world are polluted with drugs and related waste
Painkillers, antibiotics, steroid hormones and contraceptives - this is not the entire list of medicines that are found in the...
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Russian orbital satellites continue operational monitoring of emergency situations and exploration of the Universe
The Russian orbital satellite constellation organized round-the-clock operational monitoring of flood conditions and natural fires on the territory of the...
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Mars exploration: China gains insights from its first rover
The team of China's first Mars rover, Zhurong, published the results of an analysis of data collected on Utopia Planitia...
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Far-reaching plans – terraforming Mars
The main problem for changing the appearance of Mars is the lack of a strong magnetic field that can protect...
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The Earth’s South Pole is melting and cracking, and many new faults have opened in recent years
The Glenzer-Conger Glacier collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long considered stable and not greatly affected by climate change. (more…)
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Planetologists continue to study asteroids
Organic substances have been discovered on the Ryugu asteroid. Another asteroid, 2022 FD1, discovered by astronomers only on the night...
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