Using three space telescopes, Armenian astronomers have observed a flaring high-redshift blazar known as PKS 0537-286. Results of the observational campaign, presented February 15 on the pre-print server arXiv, deliver important ...
Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) could deliver a major efficiency boost to the photocatalytic production of clean hydrogen. Chemical engineers have drafted a comprehensive overview of the state of their field and a plan for ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 1, 2023
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A species of bacteria that lived 407 million years ago would have flourished among early land plants.
Evolution
Sep 11, 2023
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A surge in demand for rest cabins on Mount Fuji has led Japanese officials to call for crowd control measures including potential entry restrictions during this summer's climbing season.
Environment
Jun 13, 2023
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An international team of researchers has chosen the location which best represents the beginnings of what could be a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
Environment
Jul 15, 2023
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Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain these and other prehistoric animals during the Mesozoic Era, starting 252 million years ago, by being plentiful in the forest ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 16, 2023
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Imagine an Earth-sized planet that's not at all Earth-like. Half this world is locked in permanent daytime, the other half in permanent night, and it's carpeted with active volcanoes. Astronomers have discovered that planet.
Astrobiology
May 17, 2023
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Rivers of lava spewed from a fissure in the mountainside, snaking downwards and erupting in fountains of red and gold molten rock when the Fagradalsfjall volcano erupted this week near a small fishing town in southwestern ...
Environment
Dec 20, 2023
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The massive 2015 flooding of the Sagavanirktok River in northern Alaska had immediate impacts, including closure of the Dalton Highway for several days, but it also contributed to longer-term ground subsidence in the permafrost-rich ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 12, 2023
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A team of researchers led by Prof. Andre Geim from the National Graphene Institute (NGI) have discovered that nanoripples in graphene can make it a strong catalyst, contrary to general expectations that the carbon sheet is ...
Nanophysics
Mar 14, 2023
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