Scientist sending yeast and algae to space on Artemis 1
When NASA's Artemis 1 lunar mission takes off on August 29, on board will be four science experiments—including one from Canada.
When NASA's Artemis 1 lunar mission takes off on August 29, on board will be four science experiments—including one from Canada.
Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2022
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The Solar Ultraviolet Imager, or SUVI, onboard NOAA's GOES-18 satellite, which launched on March 1, 2022, began observing the sun on June 24, 2022. SUVI monitors the sun in the extreme ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic ...
Astronomy
Jul 21, 2022
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Virtually all vital chemical processes take place in aqueous solutions. In such processes, a decisive role is played by electrons that are exchanged between different atoms and molecules and thus, for instance, create or ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 19, 2022
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Through analyses of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found evidence of an extreme solar storm that occurred about 9,200 years ago. What puzzles the researchers ...
Planetary Sciences
Jan 26, 2022
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An international research team has used the X-ray laser European XFEL to gain new insights into how radiation damage occurs in biological tissue. The study reveals in detail how water molecules are broken apart by high-energy ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 6, 2021
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Seabirds from Gough Island in the south Atlantic, Marion Island near Antarctica and the coasts of both Hawaii and Western Australia have a dangerous habit: eating plastic. Across 32 species of seabirds sampled from around ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 11, 2021
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About 95% of all crystal structures obtained for various proteins and deposited in public databases are captured using cryogenic technology. This technology requires frozen conditions. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research ...
Biochemistry
Aug 19, 2021
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Living beings are continuously exposed to harmful agents, both exogenous (ultraviolet radiation, polluting gases, etc.) and endogenous (secondary products of cellular metabolism) that can affect DNA integrity. That's why ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 17, 2021
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Hard X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have delivered intense, ultrashort X-ray pulses for over a decade. One of the most promising applications of XFELs is in biology, where researchers can capture images down to the atomic ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 19, 2021
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Ultraviolet light endangers the integrity of human genetic information and may cause skin cancer. For the first time, researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have demonstrated that DNA damage may also occur ...
Biochemistry
Sep 14, 2020
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