An international team of researchers have discovered that a mysterious microscopic creature from which humans were thought to descend is part of a different family tree.
Evolution
Aug 17, 2022
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Durham, Toronto and Princeton Universities have teamed up with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency to build a new kind of astronomical telescope. SuperBIT flies above 99.5% of the Earth's atmosphere, carried by a helium balloon ...
Astronomy
Jul 20, 2021
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Scientists have trained an artificial intelligence (AI) system to accurately map—in one-hundredth of a second—the surface area and outline of giant icebergs captured on satellite images. The paper, titled "Mapping the ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 8, 2023
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Solar Orbiter's latest images shows the full sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on 7 March, when the spacecraft was crossing directly between the Earth and sun.
Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2022
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Countless astrophysicists and astronomers are actively searching for unobserved celestial bodies in the universe, as detecting these bodies could improve our understanding of space and help to address unanswered astrophysical ...
The famous snow-capped peaks of the Alps are fading fast and being replaced by vegetation cover—a process called "greening" that is expected to accelerate climate change, a study said Thursday.
Environment
Jun 5, 2022
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Fluid dynamics researchers use many techniques to study turbulent flows like ocean currents, or the swirling atmosphere of other planets. Arezoo Adrekani's team has discovered that a mathematical construct used in these fields ...
Soft Matter
Jan 27, 2023
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Two molecular languages at the origin of life have been successfully recreated and mathematically validated, thanks to pioneering work by Canadian scientists at Université de Montréal.
Bio & Medicine
Aug 15, 2023
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One of the central predictions of general relativity is that a massive object such as a star, galaxy, or black hole can deflect light passing nearby. This means that light from distant objects can be gravitationally lensed ...
Astronomy
Oct 10, 2022
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The first images from NASA's new space telescope unveiled this week include a new look at the universe, expanding our view of the galaxy as we know it. The images include a high resolution "window" to millions of stars through ...
Astronomy
Jul 15, 2022
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