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Flocks of tiny floating robots will help in search of life on other planets and satellites of planets
(ORDO NEWS) — One day, a flock of cell phone-sized robots will scour the waters under the thick ice on Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus, looking for traces of extraterrestrial life. Housed inside an ice-melting probe, these tiny robots will descend through the icy crust to a subsurface ocean of liquid water and be released into the water, where they can travel considerable distances from the parent probe. That’s how Ethan Schaler, a robotics engineer at NASA’s Jet…
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Monkeypox is evolving at ‘accelerated’ and unexpected rates
(ORDO NEWS) — The monkeypox virus has mutated at a much faster rate than is normally expected and likely experienced a period of “accelerated evolution,” a new study says. The virus, which has infected more than 3,500 people in 48 countries since it was discovered outside of Africa in May, may be more contagious due to dozens of new mutations. In total, the virus carries 50 new mutations not seen in previous strains discovered between 2018 and 2019, according to…
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Bases on Mars proposed to build from cosmic dust, sweat, blood and urine of astronauts
(ORDO NEWS) — Experts from the UK have proposed a very unusual way to build housing on Mars, which can help avoid the transport of numerous building materials to the planet. To do this, you can use cosmic dust, as well as the sweat, blood and urine of astronauts. The results of the research conducted by the scientists were published in Materials Today Bio. In order to transport just one brick to Mars, you need to spend about two million…
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Astrobiologists have found out whether the existence of life in the clouds of Venus is possible
(ORDO NEWS) — Researchers from the UK tested the hypothesis that explains the unusual gas composition of the atmosphere of Venus by the presence of life in its clouds, and even established the maximum possible biomass density of hypothetical microorganisms. Their calculations were based on the amount of sulfur dioxide in the Venusian atmosphere and in the future will make it possible to judge the possibility of life forming on similar exoplanets. Sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) is a key…
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American attempts to contain China through Taiwan will only harm the US itself
(ORDO NEWS) — Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian called the US efforts to contain China through Taiwan a pipe dream. Wu Qian warned that any such actions would only harm the United States itself, Xinhua reports, noting that Washington is constantly eroding and undermining the principle of a one China. The US intentions on Taiwan are known to everyone, and US efforts to contain China through Taiwan are nothing more than a pipe dream, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu…
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