Cryonics is the practice in which a body is ‘frozen’ shortly after death with the hope, when technology catches up, they will be able to be revived. Zhan Wenlian, who died of lung cancer aged 49 earlier this year, became the first person in China to be cryogenically frozen. Ms […]
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By capturing the crystal structure of RNA polymerase during a nontraditional form of transcription — reiterative transcription — researchers have identified a new pathway used by RNA to exit an enzyme.
Female teenagers living in neighborhoods with wide salary gaps and a low-income household show changes to their brain maturation that could indicate a higher risk of developing mental illness in adulthood.
Researchers have studied satellite photographs of Lake Catalina, an ice-dammed lake in East Greenland — and were truly amazed: Unnoticed by science as well as people living in the area, the lake has been the source of four major outburst floods over the last 50 years — each representing an […]
About two years ago, scientists discovered that a certain class of receptors is capable of perceiving mechanical stimuli. Now they have begun to unravel the molecular mechanisms behind the discovery.
Chinese factories have pumped out 40 satellites over the past two years, a pipeline fueled almost exclusively by domestic programs. China has been launching satellites at a similar clip, with the same demand driver. Any other nation with that volume of manufacturing and launch activity would — and does — […]
This article originally appeared in the July 3, 2017 issue of SpaceNews magazine. On March 1, 2015, Boeing inaugurated the all-electric satellite with the launch of the ABS-3A and Eutelsat 115 West B geostationary spacecraft on a single SpaceX Falcon 9. Eight days later, the French space agency CNES committed $30 million […]
This article appeared in the July 17, 2017 issue of SpaceNews Magazine. At Made In Space, the Silicon Valley startup that sent the first 3-D printer to the International Space Station, employees joke about the ways their technology would take the suspense out of popular space movies. Apollo 13, for […]