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New research published last month in Nature Astronomy may finally reveal more information about Mars’ catastrophic history. One of the biggest goals of the new research was to discover more about what happened to Mars’ magnetosphere, which many believe vanished sometime in the planet’s past. This latest research relies heavily on data captured by NASA’s Insight Lander, as well as China’s Zhurong Martian Rover. The data that these two spacecraft have captured point towards some intriguing discoveries, including…

The 1994 genocide of the Tutsi people devastated Rwanda in just 100 days. Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s searing debut novel explores how its aftermath affected three generations of one family. Immaculata survives the massacres in Butare by hiding in the basement of her Hutu neighbour’s bookshop. Her son, Bosco, joins the exiled rebel army, while her daughter, Blanche, escapes to France, meets her husband and settles in Bordeaux with their child, Stokely.The novel is narrated from the perspectives of Blanche, Immaculata and…

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent its two years on Mars imaging the planet’s surface and collecting rock samples that will, should all go well, be brought to Earth in the early 2030s.The rover collected samples of Martian regolith (rocks and dust) as well as the planet’s atmosphere, which it stored in its sample cache. But it also collected 10 sample tubes, which it left sitting on the Martian surface as backups in case disaster strikes and the samples aboard Perseverance become inaccessible.Now, the rover has snapped…

What is Correlation?A statistical tool that helps in the study of the relationship between two variables is known as Correlation. It also helps in understanding the economic behaviour of the variables. However, correlation does not tell anything about the cause-and-effect relationship between the two variables. Correlation can be measured through three different methods; viz., Scatter Diagram, Karl Pearson’s Coefficient of Correlation, and Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient. According to L.R. Connor, “If two or more…

Aaron Carter’s family plans to scatter some of his remains in Florida next year along with those of his late sister Leslie, who died in 2012 at age 25.Carter’s mother, Jane, told TMZ, which reported that the singer had been cremated, that the family will spread his ashes in the Florida Keys next spring. The Carters also plan to save some of the ashes so that they can eventually scatter them with Jane’s ashes when she dies. The family told the site that Carter’s fiancée, Melanie Martin, will not be part of their upcoming…

Mysterious large pieces of wreckage were discovered across Southeast Asia over the weekend, and evidence is growing that they came from a Chinese rocket booster that fell to Earth uncontrolled.  The booster of China's 25-ton Long March 5B rocket pushed a new segment of the country's space station into orbit in late July.Then, instead of pushing itself into the Pacific Ocean – a standard practice called controlled reentry – the booster entered Earth's orbit and slowly lost altitude over the course of a week, ensuring that…