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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu sample unveiled at the Smithsonian museum
7Nov By adminNo Comments
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu sample unveiled at the Smithsonian museum

[ad_1] In September, NASA reached a unique milestone when its ambitious project, the OSIRIS-REx mission, was completed successfully. The spacecraft traveled 6.2 billion kilometers to meet an asteroid named Bennu in deep space, collected samples, and then delivered them to the Earth. These samples, collected for the first time ever by humanity, are expected to answer some of the biggest questions around the origin of the Earth, the life of the planet, and the solar system itself. And now, a small piece of this sample has been placed in the iconic Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History so that people can come and appreciate the historic feat.According to a report by Payload Space, the asteroid sample was unveiled at the museum on Friday. The unveiling was a ceremonious occasion as the ro...
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Shocking! Solar storms played a vital role in the origin of life on Earth, says NASA study
9May By adminNo Comments
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Shocking! Solar storms played a vital role in the origin of life on Earth, says NASA study

[ad_1] Solar storms have always been looked at as a destructive force that is capable of damaging our current technology infrastructure. And this is not without reason. Just last year, a powerful solar storm destroyed more than 40 Starlink satellites. And if you go a little further in the past, in 1859, the Carrington event witnessed telegraph services being disrupted and many operators suffering shocks from the wires just because of a powerful solar storm. As such, it is difficult to imagine that without such a monstrous force from the Sun, life on Earth may never have originated. But that is exactly what a study by a group of NASA scientists is claiming.This study has been published in the life journal and it goes over the role of highly energized solar particles in the formation of a...
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Scientist says ‘Everyone on Earth will die’ if AI is allowed to be more intelligent
6Apr By adminNo Comments
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Scientist says ‘Everyone on Earth will die’ if AI is allowed to be more intelligent

[ad_1] We are entering an important era of technology — the rise of AI. Artificial intelligence has been among us for a long time, but recent developments have pushed its capabilities and intelligence to a level where it may start to leave humans behind. A prime example of this is OpenAI-build ChatGPT. Based on the GPT-4 language processing model, this AI chatbot is capable of processing vast amounts of data, analyzing it and thereafter generating content. In fact, it can answer just about any question asked of it. But this is just the beginning. An AI researcher has recently claimed that “literally everyone will die” if AI is allowed to grow more intelligent without any checks.Eliezer Yudkowsky, of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in Berkeley, California, told The Sun, “Many...
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Asteroid Ryugu discovery suggests where ingredients for life on Earth came from
22Mar By adminNo Comments
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Asteroid Ryugu discovery suggests where ingredients for life on Earth came from

[ad_1] Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing the notion that some ingredients crucial for the advent of life arrived on Earth aboard rocks from space billions of years ago.Scientists said on Tuesday they detected uracil and niacin in rocks obtained by the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft from two sites on Ryugu in 2019. Uracil is one of the chemical building blocks for RNA, a molecule carrying directions for building and operating living organisms. Niacin, also called Vitamin B3 or nicotinic acid, is vital for their metabolism. The Ryugu samples, which looked like dark-gray rubble, were transported 155 million miles (250 million km) back to Earth and returned to our planet's surface in ...
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Asteroids gave birth to life? NASA crashes rocks on Earth to unveil secret to origin of life
14Jan By adminNo Comments
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Asteroids gave birth to life? NASA crashes rocks on Earth to unveil secret to origin of life

[ad_1] A group of NASA scientists have conducted an experiment in which they simulated asteroid strikes on Earth to determine whether the origin of life was a result of a cosmic accident. The belief that the origin of life on Earth may have extraterrestrial roots is solidifying in the astronomical community. Recently, a study was published in the journal ACS Central Science which conducted an experiment to see whether complex amino acids, which are necessary to give birth to life, can be formed on asteroids. And now, a group of NASA scientists have the same thought. In a series of experiments, they simulated the exact conditions that might have been when asteroids struck into a young and barren Earth billions of years ago and could have created life. And the experiment has given the...
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NASA scientists study origin of life after simulating cosmic evolution
13Jan By adminNo Comments
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NASA scientists study origin of life after simulating cosmic evolution

[ad_1] NASA scientists simulate the cosmic evolution in labs to study the origin of life from amino acids and amines. NASA scientists have performed a new experiment that enables them to study the evolution of life. At the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, scientists wanted to explore how amino acids and amines may have formed by simulating a mini cosmic evolution under lab conditions. The scientists made ices that simulate those found in interstellar clouds and then blasted them with radiation. The leftover material was then exposed to water and heat to replicate the conditions they would have experienced inside asteroids.Danna Qasim, a research scientist, along with her colleagues made ices out of molecules that space telescopes commonly find in interstellar c...
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Life on Earth was created by meteorite strikes and gamma rays, claims study
31Dec By adminNo Comments
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Life on Earth was created by meteorite strikes and gamma rays, claims study

[ad_1] Researchers claim that life on Earth could have been sparked by a combination of meteorite strikes and gamma rays. Check the details now. The space agencies across the world have peered deep into space to find another planet where life flourishes and so far we have found nothing. One reason behind it could be that the conditions required to create and sustain life are so rare that it is incredibly difficult to find a similar planet. And this is why scientists have always been fascinated by the question of how life originated on Earth. And if a recent study is to be believed, we are merely a byproduct of meteorites and gamma rays. Yes, life on Earth began when a meteorite, which was infused with gamma rays, struck our planet. Intrigued? Read on.A study was published in the journ...
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