Etiket: Science
Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade quartermasters national center for science communication | News item
News item | 21-09-2022 | 14:00 Minister Dijkgraaf (OCW) has appointed Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade as quartermasters of a new national center for science communication. This new center stimulates…
News | radio science fiction
Welcome rerun of “The War of the Worlds”, the classic imagined by HG Wells which, in 1938, on the occasion of a radio broadcast carried out by the brilliant Orson…
The science is out: This is the most effective way to calm a crying baby
Most parents know that a baby likes to be picked up when he or she cries. Now, a new study shows that, too, walking around with your baby, sitting down…
Cecile Janssens fought tirelessly against jubilant science
The last time Cecile Janssens researched a scientific study, it was precisely a vaccine against cancer. The Amsterdam research was praised at the talk show tables. In her column for…
Blue Origin rocket fails after launch of unmanned spacecraft | Science
A minute after launch and about five miles above the Earth’s surface, the rocket engines that would carry the capsule containing, among other things, NASA equipment to space suddenly started…
Mouse-like creature that lived 225 million years ago is oldest mammal ever identified | Science
The world’s oldest mammal, resembling a shrew, has been identified from fossilized teeth. The animal lived about 225 million years ago, which is about 20 million years earlier than the…
Launch of first Artemis mission not soon in the offing | Science
The launch of the SLS super-rocket as part of the first Artemis mission to the moon is not imminent, after the launch at Cape Canaveral in Florida was canceled for…
New rocket begins journey to the moon | Science
If the weather in Florida cooperates — and the outlook is bright — the United States will begin a new chapter in its long history in space travel today. A…
Exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of 25-meter-long Brachiosaurus found during gardening in Portugal | Science & Planet
A man from Pombal, in western Portugal, discovered the first bones in 2017. He contacted researchers from the University of Lisbon, who started excavations for the rest of the skeleton.…
Bull’s eye? NASA’s DART mission gears up to hit target | Science
On September 26, after some ten months on the road, the DART mission finally reached its target. The intention is that the NASA spacecraft will hit the asteroid Didymos that…