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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Thick clouds prompted SpaceX to call off Thursday’s planned launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. The countdown was halted at the one-minute, 7-second mark. SpaceX’s next launch attempt from Kennedy Space Center is Friday, although the weather forecast is less favorable. The U.S., Japanese and Russian crew will spend at …

In 2014, a lake hidden beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet suddenly began to drain. The event occurred with such force that a surge of water was sent directly upwards, splitting through the ice to create a crater almost one kilometre deep. In the 10 days that followed, 90 million cubic metres of water were released from the lake – roughly …

When it comes to the senses, there could not be a greater difference between Friday night chips and juicy Mediterranean tomatoes. However, scientists have discovered that these two foods are not so far from each other after all. Landmark research has found the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor nearly 9 million years ago. Wild tomatoes, which grew in the …

Incredible Re-Run of the Double Slit Experiment Proves Einstein Wrong Again  extremetech.com MIT Just Proved Einstein Wrong in the Most Famous Quantum Experiment  SciTechDaily Niels Bohr defeated Einstein: scientists created a diffraction grating of «frozen» atoms that scatter  ITC.ua MIT Recreates Double-Slit Experiment with Ultracold Atoms, Confirms Quantum Duality  WebProNews MIT Shatters Einstein’s Quantum Beliefs with Groundbreaking Double-Slit Experiment  MSN Source link

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Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, 9 million years ago, apparently.  The Washington Post ‘This wasn’t obvious’: the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor, researchers find  The Guardian Scientists finally know where potatoes come from—and the answer is very weird  National Geographic Tomatoes randomly mated with another plant 9 million years ago. The result? Potatoes.  Live Science Potatoes Evolved From … Tomatoes?  The Atlantic …

SpaceX Set to Launch NASA’s Crew-11 Mission to the Space Station  The New York Times Live coverage: Former members of Crew-9, Starliner-1 missions unite to fly to the Space Station  Spaceflight Now WATCH: NASA’s SpaceX Dragon Crew-11 set to blast off for International Space Station at 12:09 pm  WPTV NASA SpaceX Crew-11 rocket launch in Florida: What time is liftoff near Cape Canaveral?  Florida …

That’s it. That’s the news. Genome biologist Sanwen Huang knows a thing or two about potatoes. But his latest potato breakthrough may be his most shocking yet: potatoes are descended from tomatoes. In a Cell paper published today, Huang’s team reports that the modern potato likely emerged about 9 million years ago, when tomato plants married the etuberosum, a potato-like species …

Roughly 124 miles (200 kilometers) beneath the Appalachian Mountains in New England lies the aptly named Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), a mysterious 218-mile-wide (350-km) region of unusually hot rock. Researchers have long believed that the NAA resulted from the plate tectonic movement that broke North America off northwest Africa 180 million years ago. In a new study published Tuesday in …

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Zealandia, considered a candidate for the Earth’s eighth continent, was mostly lost to the sea. Geologists say they’ve now mapped the entire nearly two million square miles of the underwater land mass. The research team used rock samples from the seabed to analyze and date the undersea geology of North Zealandia, …