"NASA chose this target not by chance. Bennu is so old that its material has not undergone significant geological changes, such as those that occur on planets. It is a primordial soup of matter frozen in time, from which Earth also originated. "

"This substance forms layers on ice grains and minerals within the sample. It is rich in nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon. It is a complex molecular structure, a kind of cosmic glue that bound the asteroid's loose debris together. "

"When the arm touched Bennu, it encountered no resistance. It plunged into the asteroid to a depth of almost half a meter like soft foam. If the programmed reverse thrusters had not fired, the probe could have been sucked in and trapped inside the asteroid. "

"The key to survival was a thermal shield made of Pika material. This is an acronym for Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator. The operation of such a shield is based on the phenomenon of ablation. "

"The entire operation took place in a special glove box filled with nitrogen to avoid contact of the samples with terrestrial oxygen and moisture. Scientists simply did not want to contaminate the samples. "

"Another interesting change that was attempted to be introduced was, for example, the Arctica strawberry variety. We all probably like strawberries, but unfortunately, strawberries are not particularly frost-resistant, although there are already year-round varieties, so the gene encoding AFP, or antifreeze protein, from an arctic fish was transferred to this strawberry. "

"Generally, genetically modified organisms are organisms, for example plants, animals or microorganisms, which can be said to have been created by humans as a result of changes within their genome. In the case of traditional transgenesis, this involved simply transferring foreign genes. And the key here is that these are organisms that would not have had a chance to arise on their own. "

"Regarding the potato, an interesting example that was used in engineering was the creation of a potato that produces casein, i.e., milk protein, in its tubers, which is a very interesting solution from a dietary point of view. "

"This gene codes for a protein that causes, when a larva of some pest eats such a plant with this protein, it leads to the perforation of the digestive system of such an animal. And it simply dies. This means we no longer need to use pesticides, because the plant itself is able to defend itself against such an invasion. "

"India has been implementing its grand three-stage energy plan for years, which is intended to culminate in thorium reactors. They are now in the second phase, but it is progressing quite slowly. "

"In theories of quantum gravity, the graviton is the hypothetical elementary particle that mediates the force of gravitational interaction. It is a quantum of gravitational wave energy. "

"A new article has been published in Physical Review Letters, which in the world of physics is the equivalent of the Champions League. It is not a niche preprint, but a serious theoretical proposal. "

"This casing, it flies, it flies, this casing is a small piece of the projectile. You don't need, you don't need to have any casing, so you don't need to have a mechanism that, for example, removes these casings differently, because this is the entire projectile that flies, but a part is empty. Because there was an explosive charge that caused the projectile to fly out, as if pressed around from something. This is quite a strange construction if you look, for example, at this very picture on Wikipedia. There is such a caseless projectile, and in this way, the point was that such a magazine could simply offer more projectiles for such a marine. "

"Well, today even such constructions are appearing. They cannot be as big as Gundams or something, because we would need some unimaginable materials that would be very strong. Due to the fact that, you know, when you increase something, its size, its surface area grows. The mass also grows very quickly, and in fact, the strength of the components starts to be too small to have such a, you know, Gundam or a big one, I don't know what from your time, from those big robots, there was G-Force, they had those from your time, from my time it was Gigant ze Stali in the 30s, which Gigant ze Stali could walk, it would have to be made of quite interesting materials. "

"on the surface of the solar disk, the largest sunspot we recently observed is already escaping. And unfortunately, I see that it's starting to get smooth, but something is slowly emerging from the other side of the sun, so not all sunspots, so to speak, have died, and one can still observe them. "

"the greatest chance for interesting observations [of auroras] is, of course, in Alaska and Canada, while in the Southern Hemisphere, New Zealand and further into the ocean is where it mostly goes. "

"The Warp Drive based on Miguel Alcubierre's famous metric consists of locally manipulating spacetime, by strongly contracting it in front of the ship's bow and violently expanding it behind its stern, which would theoretically allow for travel at an effective superluminal speed, but without breaking the local rules of special relativity. "

"NASA has to be very focused on identifying barriers hindering faster action and ways to accelerate the decision-making process. "

"The center of Neptune's field is displaced from the planet's center by approximately 0.55 planetary radii, which corresponds to 55 percent of the planet's radius. The planet's magnetic field is also tilted significantly, 46.9 degrees relative to the planet's rotational axis. "

"It turned out that Saturn also has its own magnetosphere. It turned out that it is not as strong, but it is present. "

"Today, the standard in our terrestrial communication, in such radio signal propagation, is precisely UHF. However, where we want to include more information, we move to increasingly higher frequencies. "

"Its precision has been confirmed in machines such as the Large Hadron Collider. "

"Probably nothing, because it was polycarbonate and it is very resistant to such things. Yes, it wasn't glass fortunately. "

"one of the craters was named Carol. in honor of the commander's wife, Reid Wiseman, Mrs. Karol Weiseman, who unfortunately died of cancer a few years ago. "

"these vehicles, these two crawlers, which were built earlier, they were built back in the 60s. "

"The crawler itself, which rolls at a speed of 1.6 km/h, so very slowly, it actually takes many hours to transport the rocket from there. "

"There are four such large portholes on Orion, as you can see, a multi-layered window, to protect against the vacuum outside. "

"We must use clever tricks. For example, observing how a star's light subtly dims when a planet passes directly in front of its disk. "

"Red dwarfs, in turn, are the most common type of stars in the universe. They are significantly smaller and cooler than the sun. "

"Exoplanets are globes orbiting entirely different stars. When we look at the night sky, we only see stars. Just those lanterns. The planets themselves are too small and too dark to be directly seen. "

"To distinguish simple life forms from advanced civilizations, scientists use the concept of technosignatures. And technosignatures are nothing more than cosmic traces of advanced engineering. "

"Life on Earth is just such a tireless factory that constantly releases gases into the atmosphere, maintaining this chemical chaos. "