Goddard Space Researches Center scientists assert that can forecast the color of plants on planets outside the Solar system. According to the researchers` conclusions, plants can be not only green, but yellow or red.
It is known that solar spectrum contains different colors. The atmosphere of the Earth as an optical filter absorbs different colors of […]

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For the first time Astronomers have found water on a planet located outside the Solar system.
Water steam traces have been found by the American scientists in an atmosphere of Jupiter-like planet HD 209458b in Pegasus constellation.
According to one of the scientists who have made these opening, the find has confirmed the assumption of water presence […]

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A spokesman for a St. Petersburg-based ship-construction company informed that the world’s largest nuclear-powered icebreaker has been launched and left St. Petersburg for Murmansk.
The 50 Years of Victory nuclear icebreaker was successfully tested this February. Vessel has been under construction since 1989 and was built at the Baltiisky Zavod ship factory.
The icebreaker will follow a […]

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According to Mission control center (Moscow), April 10, the International Space Station (ISS) 15th crew has begun settling on the board of the station after successful docking with the ISS on board Soyuz TMA-10 space carrier Monday.
The Russian space carrier was launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on April 7 carrying the 15th […]

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The development of genetically modified crops could be nice opportunity for lawyers to persuade the prudent public that GM is not such good idea after all.
Recently two GM food projects had become the newspaper headlines that gave a new twist to the GM debate. California-based Ventria Bioscience received preliminary approval from the US government to […]

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A new speed record of a train movement on a rail way is set In France. Train TGV has reached a plane speed in 574,8 km an hour on specially prepared railway lines connecting Paris and Strasbourg.
The new record of a rail train has been established by TGV modified version which had wheels of the […]

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NASA researchers managed to find out the process of Sun explosions. That was informed at the press conference in NASA headquarters in Washington by the representative of US Navy research laboratory Judith Karpen.
“We really have seen much for the first time, for example, as the magnetic field distributes energy in different areas of the Sun […]

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American scientists have bred first-ever sheep who 15 % consisted of human cells, thus having created the first humanized sheep. Professor Esmail Sandzani from university of Nevada has spent about 7 years for work and 9,8 million dollars on perfection of the given technology, informs agency Sinhua.
The scientist used marrow stem cells of the donor […]

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France became the first country which has opened access to confidential materials about contacts with UFO, states AFP agency. On Thursday, March, 22, on a site of the National space research center (CNES) 400 files containing the detailed information about the cases of meetings with UFO have been placed.
They make the one fourth of the […]

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In the south of Portugal, in Serpa city, one of the world’s largest solar power stations began its work – its solar panels occupy the area almost of 60 hectares.
Solar power station capacity - 11 megawatt. According to inventors, its potential will allow to provide about 8 thousand houses with the electric power.
Creation of this […]

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