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Space Exploration Feb 27, 2024

Korean researchers create an electrostatic environment that simulates the moon's surface

Continuous research is being conducted globally on using the moon as an advanced base for deep space exploration, and Korea is no exception in these efforts. The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology ...

Planetary Sciences Feb 27, 2024

Study offers improved look at Earth's ionosphere

New measuring techniques will enable improved measurements of the Earth's ionosphere, a key to studying and reducing the impact of space weather.

Biotechnology Feb 27, 2024

Disinfection tech uses low-temperature plasma to remove E. coli from hydroponically grown crops

A group led by researchers at Nagoya University and Meijo University in Japan has developed a disinfection technology that uses low-temperature plasma generated by electricity to cultivate environmentally friendly hydroponically ...

Molecular & Computational biology Feb 27, 2024

Researchers observe the structural heterogeneity of a lipid scramblase

Researchers from Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University report in Nature Communications that TMEM16F, a transmembrane protein that facilitates the passive movement of phospholipids and ions across ...

Plasma Physics Feb 24, 2024

Scientists explain: What is inertial fusion energy?

Fusion is a natural phenomenon that provides our planet with much of its energy—generated millions of miles away in the center of our sun.

Astronomy Feb 23, 2024

Solar physics: Why study it? What can it teach us about finding life beyond Earth?

Universe Today has investigated the importance of studying impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets, and astrobiology, and what these disciplines can teach both researchers and the public about finding life beyond Earth. ...

General Physics Feb 23, 2024

Super strong magnetic fields leave imprint on nuclear matter

A new analysis by the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle collider at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, provides the first direct evidence of the ...

Bio & Medicine Feb 23, 2024

Lab-spun sponges form perfect scaffolds for growing skin cells to heal wounds

A new technique for electrospinning sponges has allowed scientists from the University of Surrey to directly produce 3D scaffolds—on which skin grafts could be grown from the patient's own skin.

Cell & Microbiology Feb 22, 2024

Uncovering how HIV assembles its lipid coat, which allows it to enter cells

New insights into how the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) curates and assembles its lipid envelope have been gleaned by RIKEN biologists. These findings into HIV biology could help to inform the search for new treatments. ...

Earth Sciences Feb 22, 2024

Hiroshima fallout debris linked to first solar system condensates

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, by the United States in August 1945 was not only devastating at the time, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, but it has had long-standing impacts to the present ...

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