At some point during human evolution, a handful of genetic changes triggered a dramatic threefold expansion of the brain's neocortex, the wrinkly outermost layer of brain tissue responsible for everything from language to self-awareness to abstract thought.
Like Earth, Uranus and Neptune have seasons, which likely drive some of the features in their atmospheres, according to the US space agency.
It has been over a month since engineers have heard from MarCO, which followed NASA's InSight to the Red Planet.
Earlier in January, Chang'e-4 lunar probe became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon.
The rocket was blasted off from Ariane Launch Complex at Kourou, a French territory located in northeastern coast of South America at at 2.31 am (IST).
"We usually think of spiral galaxies as being quite flat, like Andromeda which you can easily see through a telescope," said Professor Richard de Grijs from Macquarie University in Australia.
The findings showed that climate change has been significantly affecting phytoplankton -- the tiny sea creatures -- in the world's oceans, which will lead to the change in colour -- intensifying its blue and green regions.
The partial shutdown, which started on December 22 and ended on January 25, became the longest on record, overtaking the previous record of a 21-day impasse in 1995-96 under then President Bill Clinton.
The team used the NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) telescope to study white dwarf stars within the globular cluster NGC 6752.
Roughly 252 million years ago, nickel byproduct from a volcanic eruption in Siberia drifted to Australia, kicking off the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the "Great Dying".
The study team, led by Hartmut Aumann of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, found that extreme storms -- those producing at least 3 millimetres of rain per hour over a 25-kilometre area -- formed when the sea surface temperature was higher than about 28 degrees Celsius.
China National Space Administration (CNSA) plans to launch the mission with the goal of collecting samples from the near side of the Moon. They would be the first samples to be retrieved since 1976, Xinhua news agency reported.
Traditional hydropower plants require the construction of large scale dams, which have significant ecological and environmental consequences.
The study concludes that if this were to happen, we could expect the frequency of extreme storms to increase by as much as 60 per cent by that time.
The spacecraft completed its first orbit of the Sun, reaching the point in its orbit farthest from our star, called aphelion, NASA said in a statement.
After having collected new samples from the Vera Rubin Ridge, the car-sized rover will now descend toward a clay region of Mount Sharp.
"Over the past seven months, we have attempted to contact Opportunity over 600 times,” said John Callas, project manager for Opportunity at the JPL.
Officials in Riyadh and the Saudi Embassy in Washington did not respond to requests for comment.
On January 1, the spacecraft zipped past the ancient Ultima Thule, setting the record for flyby of the most distant planetary object in history.
The rock was subsequently mixed with other lunar surface materials into one sample.
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