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With more than 8000 satellites in space, Chinese scientists use 'new technique' to clean up threatening space junk

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Chinese space scientists are using an enormous space sail to reduce the orbit of the newly launched Long March 2 rocket, China’s state-owned Global Times reported on July 6. This is the first experiment ever carried out on a rocket. Russia ‘Smokescreens’ $3.7B Kerch Bridge As US Says Ukraine Could Attack Europe’s Longest Bridge This deorbiting screen developed by Institute 805 of the Shanghai Academy of Spacecraft Technology (SAST) allows a malfunctioning or ‘dead’ spacecraft to leave orbit faster to contain the spread of space debris. It was mounted on the payload capsule of the Long March-2D Y64 carrier rocket that was launched into space on June 23 and put into orbit on June 26, according to SAST. The sails are kite-like sheets that stretch up to 25 square meters and are one-tenth the diameter of a hair, according to developer SAST. Once opened, the sail increases the drag acting on the spacecraft, which is why it is also called a ‘drag’ sail, thus slowing the spacecraft out of its

A new imaging technique allows researchers to view gene expression in the brains of living mice in real time

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A team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has developed a new technique to image mRNA molecules in the brains of live mice. By genetically modifying the mice to produce mRNA labeled with the green fluorescent protein (shown above), the researchers were able to see when and where the mouse brain produced Arc mRNA. Credit: Hye Yoon Park, University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities A team led by the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities has developed a new technique that allows scientists and engineers, for the first time, to visualize mRNA molecules in the brains of living mice. This research reveals new insights into how memories are formed and stored in the brain and could provide scientists with new information about diseases like Alzheimer’s. This paper was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) . There are still many mysteries surrounding the process of how me

A new imaging technique allows researchers to see gene expression in the brains of living mice in real time

A team led by the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities has developed a new technique that allows scientists and engineers, for the first time, to visualize mRNA molecules in the brains of living mice. This research reveals new insights into how memories are formed and stored in the brain and could provide scientists with new information about diseases like Alzheimer’s. The paper is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, high-impact scientific journal. There are still many mysteries surrounding the process of how memories are physically created and stored in the brain. It is well known that mRNA—a type of RNA involved in making proteins—is produced during the processes of memory formation and storage, but the technology for studying this process at the cellular level is still limited. Previous research has often involved dissecting mice to examine their brains. A research team led b