Video: The secrets of Jupiter
Discover the top five mysteries that ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission will solve.
Space Exploration
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Machine learning paves the way for smarter particle accelerators
Scientists have developed a new machine-learning platform that makes the algorithms that control particle beams and lasers smarter than ever before. Their work could help lead to the development of new and improved particle ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 19, 2022
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Arctic shrub expansion limited by seed dispersal and wildfire
Scientists investigating the growth of arctic vegetation have found that seed dispersal and fire will slow its land expansion in the long term, despite more favorable conditions from a warming planet.
Plants & Animals
Jul 19, 2022
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Analysis of Milky Way Fermi bubble high-velocity clouds suggests a foreign origin
A team of researchers with affiliations to multiple institutions in the U.S. has found that the metal content of Fermi bubble high-velocity clouds does not match with material in the Milky Way's galactic center, suggesting ...
Wildfires ravage Spanish region twice in a month
Just a month after a huge wildfire ravaged Spain's northwestern province of Zamora, flames are once again consuming swathes of the region as locals helplessly watch their land being destroyed.
Environment
Jul 19, 2022
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Europe heat sparks harmful ozone pollution, 'extreme' fire risk
Europe's searing heatwave is generating very high levels of harmful ozone pollution, the region's atmospheric monitoring service warned Tuesday, adding that large areas of western Europe also face "extreme" danger of wildfires.
Environment
Jul 19, 2022
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Tons of nanoplastic are floating in the Wadden Sea
About 20 tons of polystyrene and another 5 tons of PET is floating in the Wadden Sea, in the form of invisible nano and micro particles. That's the figure UU and NIOZ researchers calculate this month in the journal Science ...
Environment
Jul 19, 2022
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Children are bombarded with violence in the news. How to help them cope
Over 100 mass shootings have taken place in the U.S. since the rampage in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. Not a single week in 2022 has passed without at least four mass shootings.
Social Sciences
Jul 19, 2022
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UK breaches 40C for first time as heatwave batters Europe
A fierce heatwave left western Europe sweltering on Tuesday, fuelling ferocious wildfires and stretching emergency services, as it swept north and pushed temperatures in Britain over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) ...
Environment
Jul 19, 2022
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Evidence that buckyballs and carbon nanotubes form from the dust and gas of dying stars
Astronomers at the University of Arizona have developed a theory to explain the presence of the largest molecules known to exist in interstellar gas.
Astronomy
Jul 19, 2022
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