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Drug used for more than a decade to treat cancer could cure Covid-19
A drug that's been used for more than a decade to treat cancer could cure people with Covid-19, according to a new study.The drug, called pralatrexate, is a chemotherapy medication that…
Lost ‘Cosmic’ Amazonian Villages Discovered in Brazilian Rainforest
Helicopter Lidar scans have revealed an ancient Amazonian “cosmos” of circular settlements, all connected by straight roads.
Acre is an Amazonian rainforest state in northwestern Brazil…
Gordon Chang sounds alarm about Chinese ambitions: ‘The next 9/11 will be in space’
America must figure out a way to "protect ourselves and our assets in space, because the Chinese are going to get to the moon," warned Gordon Chang on "The Ingraham Angle" Monday night. …
Solar Flares And Radio Communications — How Precarious Are Our Electronics?
On November 8th, 2020 the Sun exploded. Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a…
Crew-4 launches to ISS Wednesday morning
The explosion of light in the pre-dawn darkness – launching Crew-4’s Falcon9 rocket as it slipped through the black sky to low earth orbit.Both NASA and SpaceX launch managers were…
The moon may have far more lunar craters than previously known
Using artificial intelligence, Chinese scientists have estimated that there are more than 100,000 craters on the moon, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature…
Bad Astronomy | 2020 SO may not be an asteroid but a Centaur rocket from a Moon
Astronomers have discovered a small object in space that will pass by Earth on 1 December 2020 by the small margin of just 50,000 km. Not only that, but our planet's gravity…
Physicists Are Still Hunting Primordial Black Holes to Solve The Dark Matter Problem
For a while now, physicists have been hunting for primordial black holes, exotic objects that could have formed in the early Universe and spawned a whole range of cosmic shenanigans.
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A satellite made out of wood
The BBC reports that a firm and a university in Japan are designing a satellite made out of wood.
Apart from the bespoke, hipster qualities of such a noble material, what's the point?…
NASA-Canadian agreement demonstrates how Artemis is an international moonshot
Space Policy Online reports that NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have concluded an agreement that, among other things, would include a Canadian astronaut on the Artemis II mission,…