For only the sixth time in recorded history, astronomers have managed to spot an asteroid before it hits Earth. On November 19, 2022, nearly four hours before impact, the Catalina Sky Survey discovered an asteroid named 2022 WJ1 on an inbound trajectory. A network of telescopes and scientists sprang into action, calculating precisely when and …
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By Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine of the Helmholtz Association November 24, 2022 High blood pressure almost always weakens the heart. Surprisingly, some patients with the mutated PDE3A gene were immune to hypertension-related damage. Scientists in Berlin have been studying for decades a strange inherited disease that causes half of people in certain families …
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed molecular and chemical portrait of the sky of a distant planet, marking another first for the exoplanet science community. WASP-39b, otherwise known as Bocaprins, …
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In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy reddish rock lying in yellow clay. He took it home and tried everything to crack it open, sure there was a nugget of gold inside the …
By Harvard University, Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology November 24, 2022 Artistic reconstruction of Ordovician Mieridduryn bonniae fossils. Credit: Original work by Franz Anthony Welsh fossils from ‘strange wonders’ provide new clues to arthropod evolutionary history. The most famous fossils of the Cambrian explosion of animal life, which occurred more than half a billion …
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Space security 11/24/2022 4117 views 51 love In short On November 19, asteroid 2022 WJ1 became one of many small asteroids to hit Earth, but only the sixth we’ve ever seen coming. For the second time this year, mankind has predicted an asteroid impact. The roughly 1m rock caused no damage and burned into the …
