As the state sitting above the largest portion of the United States' largest aquifer, Nebraska relies on groundwater not just for hydrating but irrigating. In growing corn, soybean and other crops, Nebraska farmers irrigate ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 4, 2024
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Coast redwoods—enormous, spectacular trees, some reaching nearly 400 feet, the tallest plants on the planet—thrive mostly in a narrow strip of land in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Most of them grow from ...
Evolution
Jan 2, 2024
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For the first time, an instrument to find planets light years away was used on an object in the solar system, in a study on Jupiter's winds.
Planetary Sciences
Dec 22, 2023
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When you uncork a bottle of champagne, complex supersonic phenomena occur. Scientists at TU Wien have now been able to calculate exactly what happens for the first time.
General Physics
Dec 21, 2023
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Paris has become the first European capital to outlaw rental e-scooters. Deputy mayor David Belliard has said the ban, which came into effect on September 1, 2023, is about opting for peace on the city's streets: "We're choosing ...
Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2023
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In a study published on 4 December 2023, in the journal Satellite Navigation, researchers from Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping have developed a self-structured Empirical SSP (SESSP) approach to overcome previous ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2023
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Someday, in the not-too-distant future, humans may send robotic probes to explore nearby star systems. These robot explorers will likely take the form of lightsails and wafercraft (a la Breakthrough Starshot) that will rely ...
Space Exploration
Dec 7, 2023
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The detailed physics behind droplet generation in microfluidic post-array devices has been clarified by scientists at Tokyo Tech. Through various experiments performed under different operational conditions, they gained important ...
Soft Matter
Dec 7, 2023
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In 1963, six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopedia Britannica posed a question to five eminent thinkers of the day: "Has man's conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?" ...
Space Exploration
Dec 5, 2023
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Hung from a common utility pole, a fiber optic cable—the kind bringing high-speed internet to more and more American households—can be turned into a sensor to detect temperature changes, vibrations, and even sound, through ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2023
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