Month: July 2022

[ad_1] Enlarge / Anna Kikina will be the fifth Russian woman to go to space. (credit: Roscosmos) NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, have officially agreed to exchange seats on four upcoming missions to the International Space Station. The first missions—with a Russian on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and an American on Soyuz vehicles—will fly in September. […]

[ad_1] From queens to battle commanders, Queen Ahhotep I, Queen Cleopatra VII and others gave their all for ancient Egypt. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Enlarge / Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin really knows how to fill out a hard hat. (credit: Yegor Aleyev / TASS via Getty Images) 8:30 am ET Friday Update: The Kremlin has made it official in a short communique—Dmitry Rogozin is out as director general of the country’s state-owned space corporation, Roscosmos. The decree is

[ad_1] Enlarge / Europe’s Vega-C rocket takes off from a spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Wednesday. (credit: European Space Agency) Welcome to Edition 5.03 of the Rocket Report!  It was a big week for small launch news, with a successful debut for Europe’s Vega-C rocket, a responsive launch by Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle, and

[ad_1] Enlarge / A plasma donor is connected to an apheresis machine, which separates plasma from blood as people donate blood plasma for medicines, at the Twickenham Donor Centre, southwest London on April 7, 2021. (credit: Getty | Johnathan Brady) The COVID-19 pandemic is considered by many experts to be a mass disabling event. Though

[ad_1] Rossby waves influence everything from high tides to extreme weather patterns, and not just on Earth. They also occur on the sun and on Venus and Jupiter as well. So, what are they exactly? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Enlarge / Xanadu’s quantum chip. (credit: Xanadu) Last month, physicists at Toronto-based startup Xanadu published a curious experiment in Nature in which they generated seemingly random numbers. During the pandemic, they built a tabletop machine named Borealis, consisting of lasers, mirrors, and over a kilometer of optical fiber. Within Borealis, 216 beams of infrared