The ambitious plans to study the sun during April's solar eclipse pred 11 urami in 15 minutami Solar scientists have been preparing for years for a 4-minute window, during the total solar eclipse on 8 April, in which they will study the sun's corona(New Scientist)
Japan’s SLIM moon lander surprisingly survived a second lunar night pred 15 urami in 2 minutama The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon spacecraft has sent back images after surviving its second lunar night – generally these periods are so cold they destroy spacecraft electronics(New Scientist)
Could bone marrow transplants transmit Alzheimer's disease? pred 16 urami in 15 minutami The mainstream view is that Alzheimer's starts in the brain, but researchers were able to transfer the condition in mice by injections of bone marrow(New Scientist)
Mathematicians are bitterly divided over a controversial proof pred 18 urami in 15 minutami An attempt to settle a decade-long argument over a controversial proof by mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki has seen a war of words on both sides, with Mochizuki dubbing the latest effort as akin to a "hallucination" produced by ChatGPT(New Scientist)
Mars may have captured and split a comet to create its two moons pred 23 urami in 15 minutami How the Red Planet acquired its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, is unknown – they could have formed after something collided with the planet, or started out as asteroids – but now there is a hint of a cometary origin(New Scientist)
Early galaxy seen by JWST contains giant young stars and supernovae pred 1 dnevom, 1 uro in 15 minutami The light signature from GLASS-z12, one of the most distant galaxies we have ever seen, suggests some of its stars have already exploded as supernovae(New Scientist)
Spreading rock dust on farms boosts crop yields and captures CO2 pred 1 dnevom, 7 urami in 13 minutami We already have evidence that rock dust can remove carbon dioxide from the air – now there are signs that spreading the dust on farm fields also enhances crop growth(New Scientist)
NASA’s Artemis astronauts will try to grow plants on the moon pred 1 dnevom, 10 urami in 56 minutami Three experiments have been selected to fly to the moon alongside NASA’s Artemis III astronauts, all designed to help with future long-term stays on the moon and eventually Mars(New Scientist)