Image: Ahuna Mons on Ceres
This image, based on observations from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the largest mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres.
Space Exploration
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Seeing moving objects around corners
David Lindell, a graduate student in electrical engineering at Stanford University, donned a high visibility tracksuit and got to work, stretching, pacing and hopping across an empty room. Through a camera aimed away from ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 29, 2019
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Ghanaian case study: How 'bride price' reinforces negative stereotypes
Marriage is an institution common to all cultures. Very often it's accompanied by transfers—in most cases in the form of payments—between the families of the groom and the bride.
Social Sciences
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Desert seed-harvesting ants will save nestmates from spiderwebs
It started out as a typical day at work for ant researcher Christina Kwapich.
Plants & Animals
Jul 29, 2019
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Increasing tree cover may be like a 'superfood' for community mental health
Increasing tree canopy and green cover across Greater Sydney and increasing the proportion of homes in urban areas within 10 minutes' walk of quality green, open and public space are among the New South Wales premier's new ...
Environment
Jul 29, 2019
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Ro5 researchers suggest radioactive readings in 2017 were from a major nuclear release
A very large team of researchers from across Europe has found evidence that suggests radioactive ruthenium readings across the continent in 2017 were from an unknown nuclear source. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
Thermal management of hybrid nanoparticles
In a recent study published in Nanoscale, researchers show increases in cooling time for poorer hydrocarbon solvents compared to better solvents, indicate penetration of solvent into the ligand layer facilitates improved ...
Nanophysics
Jul 29, 2019
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Performing chemistry in floating droplets
Could chemists be ready to ditch the venerable test tube, the very symbol of chemistry in the minds of many people? Maybe not quite yet, but Caltech's Jack Beauchamp is working on it.
Biochemistry
Jul 29, 2019
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Image: Hubble snaps a galactic potpourri of particles
Every now and then, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope glimpses a common object—say, a spiral galaxy—in an interesting or unusual way. A sharply angled perspective, such as the one shown in this Hubble image, can make ...
Astronomy
Jul 29, 2019
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Tracer galaxies probe the cosmic background
The universe, perhaps surprisingly, is not comprised of galaxies randomly distributed throughout space; that is, it is not very homogeneous. Instead, its galaxies are clustered into distinct structures, typically gigantic ...
Astronomy
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