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Miraculous rescue of the Voyager probe 24 billion kilometers from Earth

2024-04-25 19:17:57 The Voyager 1 probe plunges into interstellar space at a speed of 60,900 km/h (artist’s impression). NASA/JPL-Caltech DECRYPTION – NASA engineers have succeeded in reprogramming the computer of the probe that was launched in 1977 and is now exploring interstellar space, beyond our solar system. When the Voyager 1 probe began sending unintelligible … Read more

Why the universe is expanding faster than expected

2024-04-18 15:06:47 The gap between the rate of expansion measured by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope and the “theoretical” value derived from the Standard Model has even widened. You probably already know this: the universe is not static but expanding. He grows up. It was an American astronomer, Edwin Hubble, who was the first … Read more

Contaminated bagged salads, alert “60 million consumers”

Several NGOs warned last February that more and more fruits and vegetables consumed in the European Union were contaminated by pesticides. According to one study published Thursday by 60 million consumers, a vast majority of bagged salads, organic or conventional and of all brands distributed in supermarkets in France, are part of it. According to … Read more

Almost half of the planet suffers from some neurological disease | Health & Wellness

Neurological diseases are already the leading cause of poor health in the world. A study published in the journal The Lancet Neurology has calculated that, in 2021, around 3.4 billion people around the globe – that is, 43% of the world’s population – suffered from some nervous system ailment, such as Alzheimer’s and other dementias, … Read more

The Anthropocene war: this was the explosive vote that decided not to change the geological epoch of the planet | Science

The British geologist Charles Lyell proposed the word Pleistocene in 1839 to define the last prehistoric epoch, today considered a succession of ice ages that began about 2.58 million years ago. The French paleontologist Paul Gervais suggested in 1867 to call the current chapter in the planet’s history Holocene, which began more than 10,000 years … Read more

Code Red Civil Disobedience Movement: Targeting the Aviation Sector and Demanding Climate Action

2023-12-17 18:21:00 ”Keep them underground!” Leave them underground. The activists’ slogan refers to fossil fuels. White suits over their clothes, black hoods and ski goggles to hide their faces, red banners carried at arm’s length, they are determined. For its third action, the Code Red civil disobedience movement attacks the aviation sector. Among the many … Read more