NASA and the Canadian Space Agency announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist 1 Christina Hammock Koch, and Mission Specialist 2 …
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The colors of a star: before going supernova
The star WR 124, a star of 30 times the mass of the Sun, is going to be a supernova and the James Webb Telescope captured its brief Wolf-Rayet phase, in all its colors, before …
Pi Day: 3/14
No matter what size a circle is, the circumference will always be 3.14 times bigger than the diameter! Pi has uses in physics, astronomy, and mathematics. But also in engineering and architecture. March 14 or …
What is dry farming? New farming systems research to mitigate climate change effects
Variation in climatic conditions is one of the red-hot subjects in every discipline and nowadays many models have been developed to quantify this phenomenon. Flora and fauna are particularly influenced by climate change because of …
Are all planetary systems similar to our Solar System?
In our Solar System the smallest rocky planets – such as Venus, Earth or Mars – orbit relatively close to our star. The large gas and ice giants – such as Jupiter, Saturn or Neptune …
What if the next Carnival could be more sustainable? New solutions for confetti
The story tells that in the 1876 the engineer Ettore Fenderl invented confetti to celebrate the Carnival. During the celebrations of Carnival, people in the past used to throw from the windows sweets with coriander …