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NASA's Artemis program goal of establishing a human presence on Earth's moon is closer than ever to becoming a reality within the next few decades. But today's starry-eyed dreamers are reckoning with the gritty reality of building a...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Imaging live cells with fluorescent proteins has long been a crucial technique for understanding cellular behavior. While bioluminescent proteins offer several advantages over fluorescent proteins, the limited availability of color...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
An understanding of the relationship between severe weather and power outages in our changing climate will be critical for hazard response plans, according to a study led by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
A new study suggests that countries with stronger commitments to protect the natural environment—regardless of national oil dependence or other economic interests—are more likely to see the establishment of counter climate change groups...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
When it comes time to migrate, Queensland University of Technology research has found how a free-living coral ignores the classic advice and goes straight towards the light.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from SPACE.com
After the Battle of Jakku miniseries released in 2024, the main Star Wars comic book series from Marvel is fully embracing the New Republic era.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from SPACE.com
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is healthy on its way to the moon, and even witnessed a solar eclipse from space when Earth passed in front of the sun as seen from the spacecraft.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Universe Today
The space debris problem won’t solve itself. We’ve been kicking the can down the road for years as we continue launching more rockets and payloads into space. In the last couple of years, organizations—especially the European...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com
A nearly complete but strongly flattened skull of the ancient bird species Diatryma geiselensis has been discovered, after being misidentified and kept in a museum collection in Germany for over six decades. The post Paleontologists Find...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing approximately $40 million to support research and STEM workforce development in Delaware, Guam, Kentucky, Louisiana and Vermont. These grants are part of the NSF Established Program to...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Single women are happier, on average, than single men. That's among the findings of a recent study by University of Toronto psychology researchers. They say the results suggest that men may have more to gain than women in heteronormative...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Carbon particles are present in many aspects of our daily lives. Soot, which consists of tiny carbon particles, is generated when energy sources such as oil or wood are not completely burned. Soot particle filters, in turn, remove the...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from SPACE.com
Two Chinese astronauts completed an 8.5-hour spacewalk on Jan. 20, a sojourn that installed debris shielding outside the Tiangong space station.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Scientists at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) have used AI to massively speed up computer calculations and simulate the last ice cover in the Alps. Much more in line with field observations, the new results show that the ice was...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
A new study led by the University of Oxford has used a modeling approach to show that it is unlikely that plants would evolve to warn other plants of impending attack. Instead of using their communication networks to transmit warning...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the trajectory towards the optimum? And can we 'derive' it in a purely theoretical fashion?Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
DNA-nanoparticle motors are exactly as they sound: tiny artificial motors that use the structures of DNA and RNA to propel motion through enzymatic RNA degradation. Essentially, chemical energy is converted into mechanical motion by...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Natural compounds from plants and animals have long been used in drug development, but mushrooms remain underexplored despite their rich chemical potential. Now, researchers from Japan have successfully developed the first method to...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Several hundred bees in rural Pennsylvania and rural New York are sporting tiny QR codes on their backs. More than the latest in apiarian fashion, the little tags serve a scientific purpose: tracking when bees go in and out of their...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
The materials used to protect wind turbines from corrosion leach into the surrounding water, which could pose risks to ecosystems, seafood safety and human health, new research from the University of Portsmouth has found.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Science Blog
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Macquarie University researchers have worked with an international team of scientists to achieve a major milestone in synthetic biology by completing the creation of the final chromosome in the world's first synthetic yeast genome.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Science Blog
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The Chang Lab at Princeton Chemistry continues in its mission to elucidate the role of metal nutrients in human biology: last year, iron; this year, copper. The lab's first paper of 2025 showcases its development of a revelatory sensing...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Universe Today
Astronomers have analyzed the atmosphere of WASP-127b and discovered that its windspeeds reach 33,000 km/h. This is the fastest jetstream that's ever been measured on a planet—over 10 times faster than Neptune's winds, which are the...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from SPACE.com
The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Thanks to a new technology called Moscot ("Multi-Omics Single-Cell Optimal Transport"), researchers can now observe millions of cells simultaneously as they develop into a new organ—for example, a pancreas. This method was developed by...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Science Blog
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A new study indicates that human behavior around 45,000 to 29,000 years ago contributed to a change in the composition of scavenging animal species living nearby. While smaller scavenging animals such as foxes and some bird species...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
When glaciers and ice sheets melt, they can destabilize slopes and reactivate faults, which in turn can trigger landslides and reshape the surface of Earth over long periods of time. Researchers can monitor some locations in real time to...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
A study using data from ESA's Swarm mission suggests that faint magnetic signatures created by Earth's tides can help us determine magma distribution under the seabed and could even give us insights into long-term trends in global ocean...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
In nature, phenomena in which multiple fluctuations occur in a coupled manner are frequently observed. For example, in large earthquakes, cases of them occurring consecutively in adjacent regions have been reported. When multiple...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken tectonic plates, but...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
In the world of modern optics, frequency combs are invaluable tools. These devices act as rulers for measuring light, enabling breakthroughs in telecommunications, environmental monitoring, and even astrophysics. But building compact and...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from SPACE.com
"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for a boost, just don't have the ability to scale to useful interstellar speeds."Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Science Blog
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Nancy Beck and Lynn Ann Dekleva worked in the first Trump administration, where they fought chemical restrictions.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Science Blog
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Christmas is a great time to look for a telescope for your budding amateur astronomer. But there are some things to keep in mind when buying a telescope. Here are some tips and features to consider when looking for astronomy telescopes...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Universe Today
China’s Chang’e 7 lunar lander mission will feature a flag fluttering in the vacuum of space. It’s one of the most often asked questions I get, while showing off the Moon to the public. “Can you see the flag the astronauts...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
A local resident stumbled across the statue in a binWednesday, January 22, 2025 from Science Blog
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A study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that while the baboons noticed and responded to a laser mark shining on their arms, legs and hands, they did not react when they saw, via their mirror reflection, the laser...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
The Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, reached historic low levels in 2022, raising economic, ecological and public health concerns for Utah.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide and combine to form ever larger bodies. This so-called accretion is not yet fully understood. Astrophysicists at the University of Duisburg-Essen were able to...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
The chameleon, a lizard known for its color-changing skin, is the inspiration behind a new electromagnetic material that could someday make vehicles and aircraft "invisible" to radar.Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
A pair of marine biologists at Harvard University has found that one of the main purposes of the cownose ray's tail is to serve as a fine-tuned antenna. In their study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
In a new Nature Communications study, scientists have demonstrated the quantum version of the strong Mpemba effect (sME) in a single trapped ion system.