Scientist, engineer, test subject and tradesperson—astronauts in orbit wear many different hats. In this 360° timelapse, ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer works to repair a faulty valve behind EXPRESS-Rack 3.
Space Exploration
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Processes in nature can often be described by equations. In many non-trivial cases, it is impossible to find the exact solutions to these equations. However, some equations are much simpler to deal with because of their extreme ...
Mathematics
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A team of researchers from Beihang University, the Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology and the Michigan Institute of Translational Nanotechnology has developed a synthetic enamel with properties similar to ...
Anger is a key emotion in understanding public opinion towards crime and punishment: it is frequently mobilized in public discourse and is elicited by specific incidents. But what role do emotions play in questions of punishment ...
Social Sciences
Feb 7, 2022
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Farmers struggling to adapt to rising temperatures in tropical regions can unleash the benefits of natural cooling, alongside a host of other wins, simply by dotting more trees across their pasturelands. For the first time, ...
Environment
Feb 7, 2022
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As children return to schools across the country, the outlook for teachers is bleak.
Education
Feb 7, 2022
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Supersymmetry is symmetry of nature that is often hypothesized to exist among elementary particles. In a new paper that appeared in Physical Review Letters this week, physicists from the University of Amsterdam and QuSoft ...
Quantum Physics
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Atomic forces are primarily responsible for the motion of atoms and their versatile arrangement patterns, which is unique for different types of materials. Atomic simulation methods are a popular choice for the calculation ...
General Physics
Feb 7, 2022
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As an agricultural and environmental scientist, I've worked for decades exploring the practical challenges that smallholder farmers encounter in East Africa. These include controlling weeds that can choke their crops and ...
Agriculture
Feb 7, 2022
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Star formation in the Milky Way primarily occurs in long, dense filaments of gas and dust that stretch along the spiral arms. Dubbed "bones" because they delineate the galaxy's densest skeletal spiral structures, these filaments ...
Astronomy
Feb 7, 2022
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