Einstein Telescope could launch a new era in astronomy
admin The Einstein Telescope is being built around 250 meters underground. With interferometers in the three tunnels, each ten kilometers long, it will measure collisions of black holes in the early…
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New street lights, fewer dead bugs—bug-friendly lighting successfully tested
This is one of the new lights on the test field. An insect trap hangs from the lamp. Credit: Aube In an interdisciplinary study, a research team led by the…
Satellite ‘megaconstellations’ could jeopardize ozone hole recovery
Thousands of satellites in “megaconstellations” have been launched to meet the demand for global Internet service, and thousands more will be launched in the near future. But these small satellites…
Research reveals that plant pathogens reuse phage elements for bacterial warfare
Credit: Public Domain Pixabay/CC0 Bacteriophages, viruses that attack and destroy bacteria, are ubiquitous in the natural world where they play a vital role in regulating microbial populations in ways that…
The study of isotopes suggests that men and women had equal access to resources 6,000 years ago
In orange, the location of the Barmaz site, looking south. It is located on the plain, at the foot of the Chablais massif, which rises to an altitude of 2500…
Researchers accidentally discover that mixing water with a peptide results in self-assembled, self-healing glass
Cracking and self-healing of peptide glass. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07408-x A team of materials scientists from Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, both in Israel, working…
The pair plasmas found in deep space can now be generated in the laboratory
How it works: A proton (far left) from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator at CERN hits carbon nuclei (small gray spheres). This produces a shower of various elementary particles,…
Permanent gene changes for tardigrades help shed light on their amazing resilience
A tardigrade gets a dose of CRISPR tools to change one of its genes and those of the eggs it will produce. Credit: 2024 Tokiko Saigo et al. Certain species…
Ancient ocean slowdown warns of coming climate chaos
By analyzing the chemistry of shells like these, scientists can learn about the temperature and movement of ancient ocean waters. Credit: Brian T. Huber/Smithsonian Institution When it comes to the…
NASA’s persistence crosses an ancient river to achieve the scientific objective
Overlaid on an image from NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter, this map shows the path of Persistence between January 21 and June 11. The white dots show where the rover stopped…