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In the opening to Octavia E. Butler's prescient science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to Lauren Olamina and start to learn about the dystopian future her story takes place in
The original Doom was released in 1993 and has become a popular subject for computer science projects in the years since, including attempts to get it running on unusual and limited hardware such as toasters, treadmills and espresso machines.
DNA: (short for deoxyribonucleic acid) A long, double-stranded and spiral-shaped molecule inside most living cells that carries genetic instructions.
When astronauts perform spacewalks, or extravehicular activities (EVAs), on the International Space Station, they don their suits and enter a sealed room.
Wilmore and Williams will have to stay on the ISS a bit longer, but they are veteran astronauts and have the experience and equipment to jump right into daily life in space until they can be brought safely back to Earth.
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LUX-ZEPLIN, a dark matter detector made of 7 tonnes of liquid xenon buried 1.5 kilometres underground, is the most sensitive yet – but after 280 days of searching, it hasn’t found any WIMPs.
Waves in the underlying layer known as the mantle can scour off the keels of continents, buoying their surfaces upward to form prominent landforms far from any active plate boundaries, researchers propose in the Aug. 8 Nature.
The biggest monitor, the venomous Komodo dragon, can reach lengths of 3 meters, weigh in at more than 90 kilograms 200 pounds, sprint at speeds of 20 kilometers (13 miles) per hour, and eat up to 80 percent of its body weight at a single sitting.
Recognizing the early stages in the life cycle of a hurricane has been very challenging because there aren't large numbers of surface stations and weather balloons to provide detailed atmospheric information over the open ocean.
For instance, a surface covered in the black rock basalt would hint at the presence of volcanoes, like on many planets in our solar system.
This, in addition to hints of geophysical activity – such as the rusty lines that streak its surface – and complex chemistry, is why Europa has long captivated astronomers searching for habitable worlds beyond our pale blue dot.