Earth has captured a small object from its orbit around the sun. It is probably part of a rocket that was used in 1966 to launch the Lander Surveyor 2 to the moon, space agency reports NASA. The object was discovered through a telescope in Maui, Hawaii last September. Astronomers noted that this unknown object … Read more
Escorted by a colorful flotilla from the Statue of Liberty, the sailboat docked among the yachts of the North Cove Marina, a stone’s throw from the luxurious malls and skyscrapers of Manhattan’s Financial District. 16-year-old Swedish Greta Thunberg arrived in New York on Wednesday afternoon, after two weeks of crossing the Atlantic aboard the Malizia … Read more
Kursk State Medical University has developed a drug that can shorten the recovery process of patients with COVID-19 by several days. According to Leonid Yampolsky, Associate Professor of the Department of General and Bioorganic Chemistry of the KSMU, the new drug helps to quickly get rid of breathing and lung problems typical for those infected … Read more
Astronomers have discovered a planet where conditions are so extreme that rock evaporates and winds are faster than sound. The planet has also filled 100 kilometers deep oceans with magma. American astronomers write that in the trade journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Exoplanet K2-141b is very close to its star and about … Read more
Göttingen (dpa / lni) – Although there are far fewer high school graduates from Lower Saxony this year, 3300 new students have enrolled at the University of Göttingen. The university announced that the total number of students would remain more or less constant. It has almost 30,000 students, 4,800 of whom enrolled for the 2020/2021 … Read more
Vienna (OTS) – With immediate effect, the public is again called upon to vote for the best science book in 2021 in four categories. A specialist jury with the participation of a children’s jury in the Junior category made the nominations and is now presenting them to the audience. The election runs until January 11, … Read more
New York: At the center of the epidemic Local inspection in a metropolis in crisis modeDesign: Max Böhnel and Andreas Robertz Journal-Panorama To the series20 04 2020 – – The corona crisis in New York is far from over. The state of New York with the metropolis of the same name records a third of … Read more
Experts from the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology of the Medical University of Vienna divided the symptoms of a mild form of coronavirus into groups and identified blood biomarkers that allowed monitoring treatment. The results of a study by Austrian scientists were published in the journal Allergy. Researchers led by immunologist Winfried Pickl … Read more
On Monday morning, astronaut André Kuipers handed over the Dutch flag that he had taken to the International Space Station ISS to the Rijksmuseum. He does this in honor of twenty years of people on board the ISS, an anniversary that will be celebrated on Monday. The flag came back to the Netherlands when the … Read more
The result of the third phase of the teststhe vaccines most promising for covid-19 will be known in the coming weeks. Most of the vaccines that reached this stage originated in laboratories in rich countries, such as the USA, the United Kingdom, or were developed in research centers in the European Union. The European Center … Read more