A team of scientists has made significant progress in the ongoing quest to create new, long-lasting superheavy nuclei. These double magic nuclei, characterized by a precise number of protons and neutrons that form a highly ...
General Physics
Sep 9, 2024
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Inside a UC Davis engineering lab, tiny round pellets swirl in a brown liquid inside a 5-liter glass tank. The tank, a bioreactor, is brewing edible fungi high in protein and designed to look and taste like meat.
Biotechnology
Sep 9, 2024
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Throughout Earth's history, the planet's surface has been regularly impacted by comets, meteors, and the occasional large asteroid. While these events were often destructive, sometimes to the point of triggering a mass extinction, ...
Astrobiology
Sep 9, 2024
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Where would be the most ideal landing site for the Artemis III crew in SpaceX's Human Landing System (HLS)? This is what a recent study submitted to Acta Astronautica, and available on the arXiv preprint server, hopes to ...
Space Exploration
Sep 9, 2024
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Pet food consumes at least 9% of all livestock globally, rising to 20% in nations such as the U.S. with high pet ownership. The environmental benefits of vegan pet diets were recently found to be game-changingly large. Most ...
Veterinary medicine
Sep 9, 2024
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The Big Four firms are eager to adopt progressive positions in support of diversity, but it doesn't always play out in reality for staff.
Social Sciences
Sep 9, 2024
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As the cost of fish oil continues to rise, Australian aquaculture operators are looking for safe and more sustainable sources for healthy formulated feed in order to expand commercial production of the popular yellowtail ...
Ecology
Sep 9, 2024
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There has been a rapid expansion in growing crops such as maize to produce biomethane as a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels to help reach Net Zero. But some of this increased cultivation, on drained peat, is emitting three ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2024
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Eighty-eight years ago today, the last of the Tasmanian tigers, also known as the Thylacine, died in the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. Now scientists are adding three of its oldest ancestors to its evolutionary tree.
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 9, 2024
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Work led by University of Alaska Fairbanks and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers shows that the effort to improve Fairbanks' wintertime air quality by reducing the amount of primary sulfate in the atmosphere may ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2024
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