Two astronauts took off on Thursday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to join the International Space Station. In particular, they will conduct experiments aimed at producing dairy products on site for future interplanetary missions. On Thursday, April 20, 2017, a Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying two crew members … Lire la suite
Using models simulating the spread of epidemics, a team of British students tried to find out how long the imaginary and popular zombies could wipe out humanity. The answer: in a very short time! The subject of a « zombie apocalypse » has always fascinated and fascinated, the living dead having even gained popularity in recent years … Lire la suite
This May 10, 2016 at 7 p.m., NASA will hold a press conference reporting a new discovery made through the Kepler telescope. The bets have been made ! What has NASA discovered? An Earth-like exoplanet? Aliens ? Update: NASA has just announced the discovery of 1284 new exoplanets. > Read our article While it is … Lire la suite
Colossus is an imposing multifunction robot that will equip the firefighters of Paris from April 2017. Gathering information, transporting injured people and equipment or even extinguishing the fire will be part of the missions of this robot made in France! The appearance of Colossus will not deceive anyone, the latter is indeed a robot intended … Lire la suite
A 280-million-year-old skull fossil sheds light on the origin of the modern chimera also known as the « ghost shark » and more generally on the origins of jawed vertebrates — including humans. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute published these exceptional images in 2009: a « chimera » filmed for the very first time in the abyss. The … Lire la suite
This Thursday morning, an Airbus of the Egyptair company which made a connection between Paris and Cairo disappeared from the radars. Although proportionally very rare, flight disappearances occur on average every 1.2 years. The latest is that of 2014 with the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777. Flight MS804, which took off from Paris at 11:09 p.m. … Lire la suite
Last April, a team of scientists involving Stephen Hawking announced a mind-boggling new project to explore interstellar space using lasers to propel a postage stamp-sized nanoprobe toward Alpha Centauri, the closest system to our planet. star. If we could propel this nanoprobe at 20% of the speed of light, then it would take 20 years … Lire la suite
The decision-making mechanism is completely contagious and the behaviors of some influence those of others, as revealed by a series of experiments carried out on choices related to prudence, patience or effort by two INSERM researchers at the Brain and Spinal Cord Institute in Paris (INSERM/CNRS/UPMC). Is decision-making a question of personality inscribed in our … Lire la suite
The mystery grew day by day, indeed the increased speculations since October and the discovery of very strange forms on Pluto. Geologists claiming that these forms looked suspiciously like terraced structures around a potential lake. The teams of the New Horizons mission have decided, the improbable hypothesis a few years ago that this structure is … Lire la suite
Observations from the Fermi Space Telescope have allowed an international team led by NASA to discover the first gamma binary in another galaxy, the most luminous ever observed. The system, named LMC P3, sits at the center of a supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud 163,000 light-years away. It consists of a star several … Lire la suite