https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/27/nasa-mars-insight-lander-sends-back-first-picture-from-red-planet
Citando:
"Taken with a clear dust cover still in place on the camera lens, the picture was beamed up from the Martian surface to Nasa’s orbiting Odyssey spacecraft, and from there sent the 91m miles (146m kilometres) to Earth."
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/27/europe/siberian-unicorn-humans-scli-intl/index.html
Citando:
"A study published Monday in the journalNature Ecology & Evolution says that the shaggy creature once roamed among humans, surviving in Eastern Europe and Western Asia until at least 39,000 years ago, around the same time of Neanderthals and early modern humans."
https://zap.aeiou.pt/inseto-femea-penis-funcional-227864
Citando:
"No reino animal, os pénis podem apresentar variadas formas, mas, normalmente, só são encontrados num dos géneros de uma espécie. No estranho caso de uma tribo de insetos encontrada nas cavernas brasileiras e africanas, são as fêmeas que o possuem.
Os insetos da espécie Psocoptera (conhecida como “piolho-de-livro”) foram descobertos por investigadores japoneses há quatro anos em cavernas brasileiras. Desde então,estes animais têm vindo a ser estudados – especialmente o seu órgão sexual"
Esqueçam os filmes, isto é como é:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy75py/watch-a-spaceship-leave-earth-in-stunning-iss-video
Citando:
"On Thursday, the European Space Agency (ESA) published a video taken from the International Space Station (ISS) by astronaut Alexander Gerst. The video shows time-lapse footage of the Russian Progress MS-10 cargo spacecraft that launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on November 16. The footage is almost unbelievable as it shows the spacecraft, on a resupply mission to the ISS, arcing into orbit. The camera pans slowly and follows the unmanned Russian craft, revealing Earth’s curvature in epic scale."
... e a secção do Live Aid:
https://blitz.sapo.pt/principal/update/2018-11-17-Video-viral-mostra-como-Rami-Malek-recriou-na-perfeicao-a-atuacao-de-Freddie-Mercury-no-Live-Aid
...Finalmente:
https://news.sky.com/story/scientists-throw-weight-behind-changing-the-definition-of-a-kilogram-11555794
Citando:
"Representatives from 60 countries voted in favour of measuring a kilogram by the Planck constant, ending decades of definition by a small piece of metal held in a vault in Paris.
Le Grand K, a small cylinder of titanium alloy, has set the standard since 1889. All the scales in the world are ultimately calibrated against it, even those weighing in pounds and ounces.
Although the mother of all kilograms has only been taken out of its protective case four times in the last century, it has lost atoms and therefore mass.
The changes will come into force on 20 May next year and also affect the ampere, the kelvin and the mole.
The ampere will now be defined by the elementary electrical charge, the kelvin by the Boltzmann constant and the mole by by the Avogadro constant."
https://news.sky.com/story/scientists-throw-weight-behind-changing-the-definition-of-a-kilogram-11555794
https://zap.aeiou.pt/furacao-materia-escura-colidira-terra-226551
Citando:
"Apesar de não conseguirmos ver nem sentir, está para muito breve uma deteção direta de matéria escura, avança uma equipa de astrónomos que desconfia que um “furacão” de matéria escura colidirá com a Terra.
A matéria escura continua a ser um dos grandes enigmas do Universo. Não sabemos o que é, mas sabemos que existe. E como é que temos a certeza disso? Os astrónomos sabem-no com base nos movimentos das estrelas e galáxias, que são rápidas demais para a quantidade de massa observável."
(...)
"Com o lançamento dos dados do satélite Gaia, no ano passado, os astrónomos descobriram uma corrente estelar, deixada para trás por uma grande galáxia anã esferoidal que foi “engolida” pela Via Láctea há muitos anos. Apesar de ter havido várias deteções de fluxos parecidos na Via Láctea, o S1 (como agora é conhecido) é incomum.
Segundo os astrónomos, a corrente estelar associada à matéria escura move-se como se fosse um riacho. Ciaran O’Hare, físico da Universidade de Zaragoza, em Espanha, liderou uma equipa de investigadores para descobrir o efeito de S1 na matéria escura no nosso cantinho da Via Láctea. O estudo foi publicadorecentemente na Physical Review D."
http://visao.sapo.pt/actualidade/sociedade/2018-11-09-Cientistas-cada-vez-mais-perto-de-confirmar-que-no-centro-da-nossa-galaxia-ha-um-buraco-negro-supermassivo
Citando:
"ada 16 anos, a estrela conhecida como S2, da constelação de Sagitário, passa a "rasar" por um objeto misterioso, bem no centro da nossa galáxia, a 26 mil anos luz da Terra, e que pesa qualquer coisa como 4 milhões de sóis. Mas este ano ofereceu uma oportunidade única às equipas de astrónomos que tentam provar a sua existência: durante vários meses, a "pequena" estrela fez a sua maior aproximação ao centro da galáxia, permitindo-lhes analisar melhor o comportamento da gravidade em ambientes extremos e colher pistas significativas sobre esse mega objeto."
https://gizmodo.com/three-new-dna-studies-are-shaking-up-the-history-of-hum-1830313369
Citando:
"A pair of closely related genetics papers, one published in Science and one in Cell, chronicles the movement of the first humans as they spread across the Americas, venturing both southward and northward and sometimes mixing in with the local populations. The third paper, published in Science Advances, shows what happened to one group of migrants who decided to make the high-altitude Andes their home—a decision that sent them down a unique evolutionary path."
https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=665592537
Citando:
"Ratelband argues that he feels two decades younger than he actually is — doctors told him he has the body of a younger man, he says. While in most cases that compliment is rhetorical, Ratelband is taking a more literal approach. He also says having a younger age on paper would give him a boost in life and on dating apps.
He presented his argument before a judge on Monday."
... no Egipto:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/giza-pyramids-ramp-scli-intl/index.html
Citando:
"Archeologists have spent centuries wondering how the towering pyramids of Giza were constructed thousands of years ago. Now, the discovery of a sophisticated ramp system has put them one step closer to solving the mystery.
The remains of the 4,500-year-old ramp was found at an alabaster quarry -- of the same period -- in an Egyptian desert by a team of researchers from the University of Liverpool, UK, and Cairo's French Institute for Oriental Archaeology"
O combustível acabou. O que lhe vai acontecer?
https://www.space.com/42301-kepler-space-telescope-ultimate-fate.html
Citando:
"(...) There will be some jostling over the decades. By 2060, for example, the faster-orbiting Earth will have almost caught up with Kepler, NASA officials explained in a new video. Our planet's gravity will then nudge the space telescope toward the sun a bit, and Kepler will move ahead of Earth on a slightly shorter, faster orbit. But in 2117, Kepler will pop back onto its old path after another encounter with Earth. And the cycle will continue.
So a rescue or refueling mission would be nearly impossible, NASA officials have said. Astronauts repaired and upgraded the agency's Hubble Space Telescope five separate times from 1993 to 2009, but Hubble resides in low-Earth orbit, a mere 353 miles (569 kilometers) above our planet.
Kepler launched in March 2009, tasked with determining how common Earth-like planets are around the Milky Way galaxy. The spacecraft hunted for alien worlds using the "transit method," noting the tiny dips in stars' brightness caused by orbiting planets crossing their faces."
E mais informações:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(spacecraft)
Incluindo o Schiaparelli (ESA):
http://www.beautyofplanet.com/nasa-has-just-released-2540-stunning-new-photos-of-mars-2/
Citando:
"For 10 years, HiRISE has recorded gorgeous – and scientifically valuable – images of Mars. Its photos are so detailed that scientists can examine the planet’s features at the scale of just a few feet, including the recent crash site of Europe’s Schiaparelli Mars lander.
We combed through 2,054 of the camera’s latest pictures, released in August, September, and October, to bring you some of the best – and hopefully help you temporarily escape Earth."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/arts/music/glenn-gould-bach-goldberg-variations.html
Citando:
"Few classical recordings have aroused as much fascination as Glenn Gould’s 1981 take on Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations.
Gould, whose first major-label recording was a classic 1955 account of the “Goldbergs,”rerecorded them more than 25 years later. He then died, at 50, just after the release — leaving the two Bach statements as bookends to his career."
