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Mars will shine brighter than it has since 2003 this week

Mars will shine brighter than it has since 2003 this week

October 08, 2020

Two planets, Mars and Earth, will pass each other tonight closer than they will until September of 2035 . The day we'll be the absolute closest to Mars is the 6 October, so get a move on. Sure, the view won't be as spectacular as the 'Super Hi-Vision' cameras coming to Mars soon , but at least it'll be free. Typically, this message targets August 27, but the hoaxers always revive their story by just changing the date.

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Some planets may have more suitable conditions for life than Earth

Some planets may have more suitable conditions for life than Earth

October 08, 2020

If we thought that Earth is just the flawless planet for human beings to thrive, then we might be wrong as scientists have discovered two-dozen planets that are habitable and perhaps support suitable conditions for the thriving of life forms.

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Deadly flooding in Italy and France

Deadly flooding in Italy and France

October 08, 2020

The head of Italy's Piedmont region said the storm was the most serious in those parts since a flood killed 70 people in 1994. Gonzalez said four bodies found on a beach in Liguria, Italy, on Sunday most likely came from cemeteries swept away when rivers overran their banks.

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Asteroid Alert - 2020 SX3 to Fly By Earth on Thursday

Asteroid Alert - 2020 SX3 to Fly By Earth on Thursday

October 07, 2020

An asteroid that is bigger than a Boeing-747 is going collide with the orbit of the Earth next week, the Center for Near-Earth Objects of NASA stated. " On an average of every several hundred thousand years or so, asteroids larger than a kilometre could cause global disasters ". There are many space rocks in the Milky Way, and some rocks revolve around the sun.

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Coronavirus Canada Updates: Quebec records 1364 new cases of COVID-19

Coronavirus Canada Updates: Quebec records 1364 new cases of COVID-19

October 07, 2020

Ontario's case count fell slightly today to 548 new cases, down from 615 on Monday. Eight new deaths are being reported over the last 72 hours. New COVID-19 case numbers continue to surge in several parts of the country, particularly in Quebec and Ontario, which account for more than 80 per cent of the country's total cases.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX wins Pentagon award for missile tracking satellites

Elon Musk’s SpaceX wins Pentagon award for missile tracking satellites

October 07, 2020

Pad-caused miscarriages are nearly common, with an average of about 1 in 6 to 8 SpaceX launches, just before the lift. SpaceX has even recently inspired the Russians to produce reusable rockets for the bettering future of space exploration.

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Who is Tim Stützle? Alex Trebek announces Senators draft pick

Who is Tim Stützle? Alex Trebek announces Senators draft pick

October 07, 2020

Lafreniere also is the first Canadian to go at No. 1 since the Edmonton Oilers selected Connor McDavid in 2015. Lafreniere joins a young, developing Rangers team that features one of his favorite players, Hart Trophy finalist Artemi Panarin.

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Hurricane Delta strengthens to major Category 4 Hurricane

Hurricane Delta strengthens to major Category 4 Hurricane

October 07, 2020

From Tulum to Cancun, tourism-dependent communities still soaked by the remnants of Tropical Storm Gamma could bear the brunt of the storm. Prior to hitting the U.S., Delta will bring torrential rain, damaging winds and battering seas to the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula from Tuesday night through Wednesday .

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Mars is coming closer this week to Earth after 17 years

Mars is coming closer this week to Earth after 17 years

October 07, 2020

Arkos said three global space missions in the coming months are taking advantage of Mars' close proximately to Earth, which he said should produce valuable new images of the planet. Its closest approach to Earth that year will be 1 December, 2022. The message is that Mars will look as big as the moon in our night sky, which isn't the case.

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Trio win Nobel Physics Prize for black hole research

Trio win Nobel Physics Prize for black hole research

October 07, 2020

The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and prize money of 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.12m), courtesy of a bequest left 124 years ago by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. These "seductive dragon of the universe" described by astronomers as the "gates of hell, the end of spacetime and gateways to eternity" "after the iconic image of the M87 galaxy supermassive black hole was unveiled in 2019, were first named "black holes" in 1983 by Princeton quantum physicist John ...

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Six galaxies trapped in cosmic web could explain supermassive black hole growth

Six galaxies trapped in cosmic web could explain supermassive black hole growth

October 06, 2020

So it is such that it is being looked back about one billion years. Using a batch of powerful telescopes, and after a decade's worth of astronomical observations, an global team of scientists has confirmed the presence of multiple primordial galaxies caught under the influence of an unusually large and bright supermassive black hole , the light from which took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth.

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Hubble watches exploding star fade into oblivion - ScienceDaily

Hubble watches exploding star fade into oblivion - ScienceDaily

October 06, 2020

The thermonuclear explosion was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope which is jointly run by NASA and the Euoropean Sapce Agency. In the photographs, we can easily see a dim light coming out of supernova 2018gv . This particular white dwarf is part of a binary system, two stars orbiting around the same point in space. If the white dwarf reaches a critical mass - 1.44 times the mass of our sun - its core gets hot enough to ignite carbon fusion.

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Disgraced movie exec Weinstein hit with new sexual assault charges

Disgraced movie exec Weinstein hit with new sexual assault charges

October 05, 2020

The new allegations against him claim he raped a woman at a Beverly Hills hotel between September 2004 and 2005, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors say Harvey Weinstein has been charged with the rape of two more women in Los Angeles.

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NASA Is Sending a $23 Million Toilet to Space

NASA Is Sending a $23 Million Toilet to Space

October 05, 2020

The 8,000-pound (3,600-kilogram) shipment should reach the space station Monday. The production of the equipment cost $ 23 million (around 19.5 million euros), being the first toilet to be sent to the International Space Station in several years.

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Watch SpaceX launch a GPS satellite for the U.S

Watch SpaceX launch a GPS satellite for the U.S

October 03, 2020

For now, weather condition is looking alright for launch with a 70 percent possibility of beneficial conditions. The 60 new satellites are set to join the Starlink constellation, which now comprises more than 700 devices. This follows another decision to allow SpaceX to recover the rocket's first stage used on national security missions - which was previously banned.

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40% Of World's Plant Species Are At Risk Of Extinction, Say Scientists

40% Of World's Plant Species Are At Risk Of Extinction, Say Scientists

October 03, 2020

The new approach used by scientists this year predicted the overall proportion of threatened species to be 39.4%, nearly double the 21% of global plant species estimated to be threatened with extinction in 2016. They are calling for risk assessments to be fast tracked, using technology such as artificial intelligence, and for more funding for plant conservation.

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NHC: Tropical depression near Cuba may form by weekend

NHC: Tropical depression near Cuba may form by weekend

October 02, 2020

The National Hurricane Center continued to watch an area of low pressure in the northwest Caribbean on Friday, and it was getting its act together. Eastern Daylight Time on Friday, October 2, 2020, due to the presence of Tropical Depression Twenty-five (formerly Invest 91L) over the western Caribbean.

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Greenland Ice Loss Accelerates

Greenland Ice Loss Accelerates

October 02, 2020

However, projected mass losses for the rest of this century are expected to exceed those maximum rates, they added. Dr. Jason Briner from the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences and study author said: "Basically, we've altered our planet so much that the rates of ice sheet melt this century are on pace to be greater than anything we've seen under natural variability of the ice sheet over the past 12,000 years".

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Researchers have discovered proof of a few underground lakes on Mars

Researchers have discovered proof of a few underground lakes on Mars

October 02, 2020

The researchers spotted a liquid lake measuring about 20-by-30 kilometers, along with at least three smaller ponds, each a few kilometers across. In January of 2020, Caltech astronomers probed a mysterious feature at the South Pole of Mars -a massive deposit of Carbon dioxide ice and water ice in alternating strata, like the layers of a cake, shown at the top of the page, that extend to a depth of one kilometer, buried under a thin cover of Carbon dioxide ice.

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Indigenous woman's hospital abuse footage triggers Quebec probe

Indigenous woman's hospital abuse footage triggers Quebec probe

October 02, 2020

It added that despite previous reports indicating that racism within Quebec's public institutions harms Indigenous people, nothing was done to prevent Echaquan's suffering. The premier is expected to meet with Chief Picard on Friday. The Atikamekw council of Manawan also decried the nurses' remarks, saying they "clearly demonstrate racism against First Nations".

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Transatlantic scientific venture creates enzyme cocktail to quickly digest plastic

Transatlantic scientific venture creates enzyme cocktail to quickly digest plastic

October 01, 2020

The enzyme owes its origins to Ideonella sakaiensis , the plastic-eating bacteria found at a Japanese waste site in 2016. The super enzyme combines PETase and MHETase . After PETase was first isolated, the team worked to engineer it in the lab to make it more effective . McGeehan said that there is huge potential.

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Northern Lights will be visible in Ireland this week

Northern Lights will be visible in Ireland this week

October 01, 2020

You can see their predictions and graphics on their website . The hourly forecast from Fox 17 is calling for partly cloudy skies for most of Monday night with showers for Tuesday night. Alaska and Canada. However, the Aurora Borealis is not exactly a rare event in Alaska and northern Canada. However, he said that it will be visible in all parts of the country.

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Learn more about the mysteries of the Harvest Moon — JILL ELLSWORTH

Learn more about the mysteries of the Harvest Moon — JILL ELLSWORTH

September 30, 2020

The first full moon of fall rises the week - and it's also the first of two full moons in October 2020 . In Chinese culture, the full moon symbolizes prosperity and togetherness amongst families. In 2011, observers in Europe also spotted an impressive 600 meteors per hour. As the next perihelion isn't expected until 2025, an outburst from the Draconids is not really expected this year.

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Watch Elon Musk launch SpaceX's 13th Starlink mission today

Watch Elon Musk launch SpaceX's 13th Starlink mission today

September 30, 2020

The launch window opened at 10:22 a.m. Falcon 9 is on track to become the fastest commercial rocket in history to cross the 100-launch milestone and SpaceX is already well on its way to regularly out-launching entire countries with 20+ missions per year.

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A group of lakes found under the surface of Mars

A group of lakes found under the surface of Mars

September 30, 2020

More specifically, MARSIS sends radar pulses across the planet and these pulses reach subsurface levels of Mars before bouncing back to the scientists that sent them. This latest discovery suggests that some pockets of the Martian terrain may be habitable and could contain some form of microbial life that escaped from the planet's freezing surface to the waters beneath.

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Final whale saved from grim Australia mass stranding

Final whale saved from grim Australia mass stranding

September 30, 2020

Rescuers work to save a whale on a beach in Macquarie Harbour on the rugged west coast of Tasmania. He explained the pod might have come from any place in the area because pilot bees, unlike a number of other whale species, but aren't migratory.

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Supply Run to Space Station Will Have 2 Unusual Items

Supply Run to Space Station Will Have 2 Unusual Items

September 29, 2020

Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. "As a beauty industry leader in science and innovation, Estée Lauder is the first-ever beauty brand to participate in NASA's efforts to enable business opportunities on the International Space Station", Estée Lauder said.

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Mars's south pole may have an underground lake surrounded by ponds

Mars's south pole may have an underground lake surrounded by ponds

September 29, 2020

The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has been orbiting the planet since 2003. The report quoted one of the paper's authors - Elena Pettinelli from the University Rome, who called the discovery mechanism "complex" - "We identified the same body of water, but we also found three other bodies of water around the main one.It's a complex system".

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Canada's Quebec expected to announce new restrictions as coronavirus cases rise

Canada's Quebec expected to announce new restrictions as coronavirus cases rise

September 29, 2020

In the mean time he said that measures are being taken to help reduce wait times and ensure that people waiting to get tested can do so in a way that is sheltered from the elements. Quebec, the Canadian province hardest hit by the novel coronavirus, reported another sharp increase in daily infections on Monday, and media reports said Premier Francois Legault would announce new restrictions for Montreal and capital Quebec City.

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Northern Lights could be visible over MI tonight

Northern Lights could be visible over MI tonight

September 29, 2020

This week, the Space Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced G1 and G2 geomagnetic storm watches for September 27 through September 29. To see the lights, Wisconsinites will need to get away from city lights, and those in the Milwaukee area may need to head a bit north. People watching for the aurora are most likely to see it if they find a high place outside of town with as little light pollution as possible.

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NASA's New and Improved Space Toilet Is Ready for Takeoff

NASA's New and Improved Space Toilet Is Ready for Takeoff

September 29, 2020

State law allows them to use a secure electronic ballot to cast their ballots, which Mission Control sends to the county clerk, once completed. "I think it's really important for everybody to vote", Rubins said. "It is important that we participate in our democracy", she said. Northrop Grumman has named the mission the S.S. Kalpana Chawla after astronaut Kaplana Chawla, the first woman of Indian descent to go to space and one of the seven astronauts who died in the 2003 Columbia ...

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SpaceX Starlink launch suffers last-second scrub, ULA up next

SpaceX Starlink launch suffers last-second scrub, ULA up next

September 29, 2020

SpaceX executives and managers involved in launch go/no-go decisions clearly understand this and act accordingly. The mega constellation will provide internet access to every corner of the globe, including those parts where terrestrial broadband access is non-existent.

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Sobyanin urged elderly Muscovites to stay at home amid rising COVID cases

Sobyanin urged elderly Muscovites to stay at home amid rising COVID cases

September 28, 2020

On September 25, health officials reported 7,212 new cases, the highest daily surge since June. The Moscow mayor's decree presents the stay-at-home measure as a compulsory rule, with exceptions for medical care, shopping, walking dogs and commuting to work.

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The 2020 Perseid meteor shower is peaking: How to observe the demonstrate

The 2020 Perseid meteor shower is peaking: How to observe the demonstrate

September 28, 2020

The astronomical event is associated with the dusty debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 133 years. According to QCH Astronomer Dr Beshir Marzouk, the Perseid meteor shower is one of the highly important meteor showers seen from Earth as it flows with an average rate of 60 to 100 meteors per hour.

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Rescue of Stranded Whales in Australia Enters Final Phase

Rescue of Stranded Whales in Australia Enters Final Phase

September 27, 2020

Local authorities said they were hopeful to save another 12 to 20 whales which had been assessed as having the best chance of survival, in a way as quick and humane as they can. Several methods were being trialled for moving the dead whales - including towing them out to sea before cutting them loose to sink in deeper water.

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GOP invests $10M in boosting Trump with Barrett confirmation

GOP invests $10M in boosting Trump with Barrett confirmation

September 27, 2020

The move suggests she's preparing for a commanding role in Coney Barret's confirmation hearings, slated to start October 12 and expected to last three days. Much like her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, she will be a textualist and originalist devoted to upholding the rule of law. The other finalist mentioned by Trump to fill the vacancy was Barbara Lagoa, a Cuban-American federal appeals court judge from Florida who he appointed previous year.

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A mysterious beak whale breaking a record in a mammal diving

A mysterious beak whale breaking a record in a mammal diving

September 26, 2020

Deploying 23 tags over a 5-year period, the team recorded more than 3600 foraging dives, ranging from 33 min to 2 h 13 min, all of which were well in excess of the point when diving Cuvier's beaked whales were thought to run out of oxygen. "They kind of have smaller brains that are very small in the lung". Quick is also intrigued by the reasons behind the two record-breaking dives; "it may be that there was a particularly productive food patch, ...there was some perceived threat...[or] some ...

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Radiation levels on moon more than double those on space station

Radiation levels on moon more than double those on space station

September 26, 2020

However, astronauts face a number of potentially harmful radiation sources in space from which the Earth's atmosphere largely protects us. An astronaut would be exposed to an average daily dose of 1,369 microsieverts of radiation, researchers report online September 25 in Science Advances .

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Space Force, NASA announce new collaboration agreement

Space Force, NASA announce new collaboration agreement

September 26, 2020

The operation lasted two and a half minutes. Astronauts on the ISS - two Russians and an American - relocated to another area of the station to be near the Soyuz capsule in case evacuation was necessary. These avoidance maneuvers are necessary and could become even more frequent as the Earth's orbit is littered with space junks introduced by human activities over the last sixty years.

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Twitter set to roll out 'read before you retweet' feature globally

Twitter set to roll out 'read before you retweet' feature globally

September 25, 2020

The company started Test the prompt in June , Appears when you click to retweet a story you haven't actually read. At the time, it said the feature was created to "promote informed discussion". Twitter hasn't said when the feature will arrive, but expect it to pop up for all users soon. The next phase is to make the prompts smaller after a person sees it once (presumably so it doesn't annoy or patronize users) and to make the feature available to all users worldwide.

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Asteroid 2020 SW Flew Safely Past Earth Today | Astronomy

Asteroid 2020 SW Flew Safely Past Earth Today | Astronomy

September 25, 2020

Paul Chodas , the director of NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies , told CNN . The closest approach will occur Thursday morning over the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Scientists speculate there are more than 100 million smaller asteroids like 2020 SW flying through space, but are harder to spot unless they make their way closer to Earth.

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Rescue operation seeks to save hundreds of whales off Tasmania

Rescue operation seeks to save hundreds of whales off Tasmania

September 24, 2020

They're scattered along two sandbars and the strip of beach, according to the Tasmanian Marine Conservation Program, which is leading the rescue operation. It is understood to be the biggest mass stranding in Tasmania in more than a decade. "They are wet, they are cool, and today we have some really suitable weather for them", Carlyon said.

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Asteroid to have 'extremely close encounter' with Earth this week

September 24, 2020

JPL also notes that the asteroid will fly pass Earth closer than the moon orbits, which is about 24,000 miles away, and make a close approach below the ring of geostationary satellites orbiting about 22,000 miles from our planet. At 50m in diameter, or as tall as the Arc de Triomphe, the largest of the three, named 2020 RD5, will pass the Earth at 61,000 kph at a mercifully safe distance of four million kilometers.

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Top 1% emit double CO2 of poorest 50%Phnom

Top 1% emit double CO2 of poorest 50%Phnom

September 24, 2020

An analysis led by Oxfam showed that between 1990 and 2015, when annual emissions ballooned 60 percent, rich nations were responsible for depleting almost a third of Earth's carbon budget . The total increase in emissions of the richest 1pc was three times that of the poorest 50pc, Oxfam said. Oxfam argues that continuing to allow the rich world to emit vastly more than those in poverty is unfair.

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NASA to send first astronauts to Moon’s South Pole in 2024

NASA to send first astronauts to Moon’s South Pole in 2024

September 24, 2020

The aim of the research would be to usher into new scientific discovery along with economic benefits and inspiration for a newer generation, as said by Bridenstine. In January, Congressman Kendra Horn, D-Okla., proposed a bill to urge NASA to consider a 2028 deadline for putting us astronauts back on the moon in order to boost the space agency's long-term plans for crewed Mars exploration.

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Islanders are urged to prepare for Hurricane Teddy

Islanders are urged to prepare for Hurricane Teddy

September 24, 2020

Hurricane Teddy is expected to impact the Atlantic region starting mid-day Tuesday as a post-tropical storm, bringing rain , wind and high waves . It said maximum sustained winds are near 100 miles per hour with higher gusts. The strongest winds will fall to the right side of the storm as it goes by on Wednesday, and could reach 80 to 100 kilometres per hour or higher in exposed areas on the east coast.

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Tom Cruise Is Actually Going To Space In 2021

Tom Cruise Is Actually Going To Space In 2021

September 23, 2020

Apparently, this isn't the first time Cruise has considered a cheeky Space endeavour, with the great James Cameron approaching him in the year 2000 for a Space mission of sorts. We have now discovered that the movie in question, will not be the next Mission Impossible instalment (sorry all of you MI fans), but the movie will be directed by Doug Liman who you might recognise from such films as The Bourne Identity & Edge of tomorrow .

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Earth-Sized Planet Orbits its Host Star in Just a Few Days

Earth-Sized Planet Orbits its Host Star in Just a Few Days

September 23, 2020

This year, researchers focused on the system using SPECULOOS, a network of ground-based telescopes. The official name of the planet is K2-315b, it is the 315th planetary system that was discovered using K2 data. "These ultracool dwarfs are scattered all across the sky", said co-author Artem Burdanov. Repeat every 3.14 days. Through a series the testing of a series of astrophysical scenarios for the origin of the dip, the scientists established that signals were probably that of a planet in ...

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Illumina signs acquisition deal with GRAIL for $8B

Illumina signs acquisition deal with GRAIL for $8B

September 23, 2020

Grail , whose investors include Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, is developing a blood test that aims to detect multiple cancers far earlier than is now possible. U.S. healthcare firm Illumina is to take full control of blood test specialist Grail in a $8bn cash and stock deal, it was announced on Monday.

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Halloween is getting spookier this year with a rare blue moon

Halloween is getting spookier this year with a rare blue moon

September 23, 2020

Since the lunar cycle and the calendar years aren't perfectly in sync, we get two full moons in the same calendar month once about every three years. "After the blue moon on October 31, 2020, trick-or-treaters will need to wait until 2039 to see the next blue moon on Halloween", Lada said.

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