An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor showers has found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the sun. In a paper published in the journal Icarus, they ascribe the differences to the ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 22, 2024
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For Australian breaker Rachael "Raygun" Gunn, the 2024 Paris Olympics were marred by an outpouring of online trolling. Gunn's performance was met with a savage backlash on social media.
Social Sciences
Aug 22, 2024
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The world is facing unparalleled changes in climatic conditions and drastic loss of biological diversity, putting humanity at risk. The breakdown of the Earth's climate and the rapid loss of wildlife are intertwined, yet ...
Environment
Aug 22, 2024
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Tim Walz speaks Mandarin. But don't expect to hear Kamala Harris' running mate deploying his Chinese language skills on the US election campaign trail.
Social Sciences
Aug 22, 2024
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In a study published22 August in Cell Reports Physical Science, a team led by Dr. Yoshikatsu Hayashi demonstrated that a simple hydrogel—a type of soft, flexible material—can learn to play the simple 1970s computer game "Pong." ...
Materials Science
Aug 22, 2024
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Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University report that they were able to successfully put tadpoles of Xenopus laevis frogs into a hibernation-like torpor state using donepezil ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 22, 2024
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborating institutions have engineered a highly selective catalyst that can convert methane, a major component of natural gas, into ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 22, 2024
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Integrated photonic circuits operating at room temperature combined with optical nonlinear effects could revolutionize both classical and quantum signal processing. Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 22, 2024
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Physicists from Aalto University in Finland, alongside an international team of collaborators, have theoretically and experimentally shown that superconducting qubit coherence loss can be directly measured as thermal dissipation ...
Nanophysics
Aug 22, 2024
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Unusually warm waters off the coast of Sicily helped spawn a "waterspout" that sank a superyacht earlier this week, leaving several people dead or missing.
Environment
Aug 22, 2024
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