11 articles from SUNDAY 8.9.2019
Salyut 1 beat Skylab in space station race | Brief letters
Chris Kraft obituary | Bristol view | Codeword puzzle | Agincourt | StarbucksIn your obituary of Chris Kraft, former director of Nasa’s flight operations and the Johnson Space Center (Journal, 3 September 2019), you state he oversaw the missions to the first space station, Skylab. The title of “first space station” properly goes to Salyut 1, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971. Skylab was...
Dead Sea Scrolls: How to make a book last for millennia
- ScienceDaily
- 19/9/8 18:46
Researchers have determined the unique composition of a surface layer on the Temple Scroll, one of the best-preserved of the more than 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, to uncover the ancient production technology.
Deep magnet stimulation shown to improve symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder
- ScienceDaily
- 19/9/8 18:44
Researchers have found that focusing powerful non-invasive magnet stimulation on a specific brain area can improve the symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This opens the way to treat the large minority of sufferers who do not respond to conventional treatment.
India Locates Missing Moon Lander Module on Lunar Surface
(NEW DELHI) — The lander module from India’s moon mission was located on the lunar surface on Sunday, one day after it lost contact with the space station, and efforts are underway to try to establish contact with it, the head of the nation’s space agency said.
The Press Trust of India news agency cited Indian Space and Research Organization chairman K. Sivan as saying cameras...
France says 1,500 died in summer's heat wave
France's health minister says 1,500 people died in this summer's heat wave in France—but a campaign of public awareness saved many lives.