Space Exploration
Biggest space station crowd in decade after SpaceX arrival
The International Space Station's population swelled to 11 on Saturday with the jubilant arrival of SpaceX's third crew capsule in less than a year.
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Materials Science
A more efficient, safer alternative to sourcing copper via bacteria
Copper remains one of the single most ubiquitous metals in everyday life. As a conductor of heat and electricity, it is utilized in wires, roofing and plumbing, as well as a catalyst for petrochemical plants, solar and electrical ...
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China names Mars rover for traditional fire god
China's first Mars rover will be named Zhurong after a traditional fire god, the government announced Saturday.
China's first Mars rover will be named Zhurong after a traditional fire god, the government announced Saturday.
Space Exploration
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Old SpaceX capsule delivers new crew to space station
A recycled SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, the third high-flying taxi ride in less than a year for Elon Musk's company.
Space Exploration
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The effects of solar flares on Earth's magnetosphere
Planet Earth is surrounded by a system of magnetic fields known as the magnetosphere. This vast, comet-shaped system deflects charged particles coming from the sun, shielding our planet from harmful particle radiation and ...
Climate has shifted the axis of the Earth
Glacial melting due to global warming is likely the cause of a shift in the movement of the poles that occurred in the 1990s.
Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2021
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Scientists make further step towards understanding dark energy
The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) collaboration has released its latest scientific results. These results include two studies on dark energy led by Prof. Zhao Gongbo and Prof. Wang Yuting, respectively, ...
Astronomy
Apr 23, 2021
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The secret lives of T cell receptors and their role in the immune response
Canadian immunologists have identified a mechanism that promotes the activation of T cell receptors by altering how one of its components interacts with the cell membrane.
Simple robots, smart algorithms
Anyone with children knows that while controlling one child can be hard, controlling many at once can be nearly impossible. Getting swarms of robots to work collectively can be equally challenging, unless researchers carefully ...
Robotics
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Body's natural pain killers can be enhanced
Fentanyl, oxycodone, morphine—these substances are familiar to many as a source of both pain relief and the cause of a painful epidemic of addiction and death.
Medical research
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Targeting drug-resistant breast cancer with estrogen
Researchers at Dartmouth's and Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) hope to make estrogen therapy a more accessible treatment option for breast cancer patients who could benefit from it. Anti-estrogen ...
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Medical Xpress
Body's natural pain killers can be enhanced
Targeting drug-resistant breast cancer with estrogen
Indian COVID variant found in Switzerland: health authority
India virus surge drives record global daily cases
Europe reopens but virus patients still overwhelm ICU teams
Vaccines mean Hungary's restaurants open for outdoor service
India virus patients suffocate from low oxygen amid surge
Germany pulls virus 'emergency brake' but not all on board
Covid jabs at the ends of the earth
India COVID deaths hit record as J&J jab gets US green light
Muscle gene linked to type 2 diabetes
Ankle exoskeleton enables faster walking
Mitochondria could boost immunotherapy effectiveness
The type of blood vessel damage determines its path to regeneration
Disparate impact of mobility behavior on COVID-19 infection risk for vulnerable communities
Tech Xplore
Simple robots, smart algorithms
Heavy-duty vehicles an ideal entry into hydrogen fuel cell use
Researchers show enhanced electrode-water interactions in metal-free aqueous batteries
Toward new solar cells with active learning
Rethinking hydropower for energy and environmental sustainability
Researchers develop ultrathin, self-powered e-health patches that can monitor a user's pulse and blood pressure
A critical understanding of why and how solid-state batteries fail
How techno-economic analysis can improve energy technologies
Public relations scholar explores the use of AI-driven chatbots for PR
An easy-to-use platform is a gateway to AI in microscopy
Researchers develop smartphone-powered emergency alert system
Taking down human traffickers through online ads
New Windows 10 taskbar offers personalized news and interest features
Microsoft has just announced the new Windows 10 taskbar, personalized to the individual user. This taskbar offers high-quality content based on your news and interests with a single click or tap.
Astronomers see first hint of the silhouette of a spaghettified star
For decades astronomers have been spotting bursts of electromagnetic radiation coming from black holes. They assumed those are the result of stars being torn apart, but they have never seen the silhouette of the actual material ...
Astronomy
Apr 23, 2021
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Heavy-duty vehicles an ideal entry into hydrogen fuel cell use
Through a consortium of Department of Energy national laboratories, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists are applying their expertise to provide solutions that enable the commercialization of emission-free hydrogen fuel ...
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 23, 2021
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Environmental scientists: Up to 20% of global groundwater wells at risk of going dry
A pair of environmental scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has found that up to 20% of all the groundwater wells in the world are at risk of going dry in the near future. In their paper published in ...
Hubble captures giant star on the edge of destruction
The expanding shell of gas and dust that surrounds the star is about five light-years wide, which equals the distance from here to the nearest star beyond the Sun, Proxima Centauri.
Astronomy
Apr 23, 2021
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Flexible diet may help leaf-eating lemurs resist deforestation
Fruits and veggies are good for you and if you are a lemur, they may even help mitigate the effects of habitat loss.
Plants & Animals
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Synthetic gelatin-like material mimics lobster underbelly's stretch and strength
A lobster's underbelly is lined with a thin, translucent membrane that is both stretchy and surprisingly tough. This marine under-armor, as MIT engineers reported in 2019, is made from the toughest known hydrogel in nature, ...
Materials Science
Apr 23, 2021
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Feeling confinement in the gut: Microbiome alterations common in astronauts
Crew members who took part in the Mars500 experiment showed significant changes in their gut microbiota from their 520 days in confinement, according to a new study by scientists at Université de Montreal and McGill University.
Space Exploration
Apr 23, 2021
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Asteroid that hit Botswana in 2018 likely came from Vesta
An international team of researchers searched for pieces of a small asteroid tracked in space and then observed to impact Botswana on June 2, 2018. Guided by SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens, they found ...
Space Exploration
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Value and neural representations during goal-directed behavior
In its hedonistic aspects, value is often associated with reward. However, when circumstances change, value must also change. In this work, G. Castegnetti and a research team at the Institute of cognitive neuroscience and ...
California to ban new fracking from 2024
California plans to stop issuing new fracking permits by 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom said Friday, as the state looks toward progressively halting fossil fuel extraction in the coming decades.
Hatchery reviving Britain's near-extinct local oysters
Decimated by over-fishing and pollution, British oysters could make a comeback as a hatchery in the Channel port city of Portsmouth is helping to revive a native species.
US and Iranian researchers collaborate on Lake Urmia restoration
In a rare exchange, scientists and water resources engineers from Iran and Utah are collaborating on a bold scientific study to restore one of the world's largest saline lakes.
High school junior's consumer seismometer delivers low-cost earthquake early warning
A Southern California high school junior has built a low-cost seismometer device that delivers earthquake early warnings for homes and businesses. Costing less than $100 for her to make today, the seismometer could someday ...
New alloy can directly reduce the weight of heat removal systems by a third
The new alloys created by NUST MISIS scientists in cooperation with LG Electronics will help reduce the weight of radiators and heat removal systems in electric vehicles and consumer electronics by one third. The research ...
Response options should be at the center of climate risk assessment and management
A team of researchers from the Africa Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) led a global team of 21 climate risk scholars to better understand and inform decision making around climate change risks in Africa and globally ...
Climate change affects deep-sea corals and sponges differently
Corals and sponges are important foundations in ocean ecosystems providing structure and habitats that shelter a high number of species like fish, crabs and other creatures, particularly in the seamounts and canyons of the ...
Fiber optic cable monitors microseismicity in Antarctica
At the Seismological Society of America's 2021 Annual Meeting, researchers shared how they are using fiber optic cable to detect the small earthquakes that occur in ice in Antarctica.
Seismicity on Mars full of surprises, in first continuous year of data
The SEIS seismometer package from the Mars InSight lander has collected its first continuous Martian year of data, revealing some surprises among the more than 500 marsquakes detected so far.
DeepShake uses machine learning to rapidly estimate earthquake shaking intensity
A deep spatiotemporal neural network trained on more than 36,000 earthquakes offers a new way of quickly predicting ground shaking intensity once an earthquake is underway, researchers report at the Seismological Society ...
Citizen science data tracks battle of birds vs bacteria
House finches are locked in a deadly cycle of immunity and new strains of bacterial infection in battling an eye disease that halved their population when it first emerged 25 years ago, according to new research from the ...
Biden administration proposes restoring California's right to set car pollution rules
The Transportation Department announced Thursday it was withdrawing part of a Trump-era rule that blocked states from setting their own tough car pollution standards, reversing actions by the Trump administration that weakened ...
Study reports novel role of enzyme in plant immunity and defense gene expression
A recently published article in the Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions journal provides new evidence that pathogens are hijacking the plant immune system to cause disease while providing insights into a newly discovered ...
Engineering single-molecule fluorescence with asymmetric nano-antennas
NIR fluorescence has shown great potential in bioscience, but low quantum-yield has largely impeded research on most NIR fluorophores. Here, scientists in China use asymmetric plasmonic nano-antennas to drastically enhance ...
Not all gloom: World leaders tout success at climate summit
World leaders joined President Joe Biden at the virtual climate summit Friday to share their stories how nations can break free of climate-damaging fossil fuels—from Kenyans leapfrogging from kerosene lamps to geothermal ...
'Planar and curved' pyrrole-fused azacoronenes
Recent study on synthetic approaches toward polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) such as graphene with a well-defined structure have attracted much attention. A research group at Ehime University has been studying the ...
Quantifying the level of pollution in marinas
An interdisciplinary group of Spanish scientists, bringing together biologists and chemists from the Universities of Seville, Huelva, the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Institute of Marine Sciences of Andalusia of ...
GPS tracking could help tigers and traffic coexist in Asia
More than 100,000 tigers ranged across Asia a century ago, from the Indian subcontinent to the Russian Far East. Today they are endangered, with only about 4,000 tigers left in the wild. The greatest threats they face are ...
Bacteria and viruses infect our cells through sugars: Now researchers want to know how they do it
Most infectious bacteria and viruses bind to sugars on the surface of our cells. Now researchers from the University of Copenhagen have created a library of tens of thousands of natural cells containing all the sugars found ...
VR visualization supports research on molecular networks
Networks offer a powerful way to visualize and analyze complex systems. However, depending on the size and complexity of the network, many visualizations are limited. Protein interactions in the human body constitute such ...
