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Troubling Motor Issues Will Delay Revival of Europe’s Vega-C Rocket
After a disheartening failure in December 2022, the return flight of Europe’s Vega-C rocket has been pushed to late 2024. The delay, just revealed by the European Space Agency, stems from a required redesign of the rocket’s motor nozzle. The 35-metre-tall rocket’s misfortune struck just 2 minutes and 27 seconds after its departure from the…
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Scientists Win Nobel Prize for mRNA Breakthrough Used to Create COVID-19 Vaccine
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to two scientists whose vaccine breakthrough contributed to developing the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Professor Katalin Karikó and Professor Drew Weissman received the honour on Monday for their “groundbreaking findings” in a paper that went largely unnoticed until the COVID-19 pandemic grew rampant in 2020. When Karikó…
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The Future Supercontinent Will Be Way Too Hot for Mammals to Survive, Study Says
Mammals are halfway through their era on this planet. We’ve existed about 250 million years since mammals evolved on earth and we only have another 250 million left before most of the world is no longer habitable. A study recently published in Nature Geoscience explained that the world is only a couple hundred million years…
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Paleontologists Find Trilobite’s Last Meal in 465-Million-Year-Old Fossilised Stomach
Here’s something to chew on: a fossilized trilobite from the Ordovician Period, which is so well preserved that a team of paleontologists was able to identify its last meal, now mineralized in the creature’s fossil stomach. The discovery is the first direct evidence of the trilobite diet, taken straight from the animal’s belly. Using synchrotron…