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Biochemistry 2 hours ago

Hydrophilic coating makes for unflappable golf balls

The upcoming U.S. Open has professional golfers and spectators looking forward to getting on the green. But the grass's condition, regardless of a player's skill, can drastically skew the chances of a winning putt. Now, scientists ...

Astronomy 15 hours ago

We're one step closer to a giant interferometer on the moon

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed giant interferometer on the moon. It's called the Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI) and would deploy ...

Astronomy 16 hours ago

Webb unmasks true nature of the 'Cosmic Tornado' spiral galaxy

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a beautiful juxtaposition of the nearby protostellar outflow known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 with a perfectly positioned, more distant spiral galaxy. Due to the close proximity ...

Molecular & Computational biology 17 hours ago

Traditional breeding falls short in boosting soybean photosynthesis

A team from the University of Illinois has determined that improving a key component of soybean photosynthesis is unlikely to come from traditional breeding methods, and that gene editing is likely the key to unlocking soybean ...

Astronomy 20 hours ago

Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it—and others—will keep coming back

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation triggered a fervid series of observations of the object—possibly as big as a football field—to ...

Evolution 20 hours ago

How dramatic daily swings in oxygen shaped early animal life

Imagine a world where the oxygen you need changes dramatically between day and night. Your world shifts from being rich in oxygen (oxic) in the day, so you have energy to hunt for food, to suffocatingly oxygen-free (anoxic) ...

General Physics 23 hours ago

Might the proton decay in other places or at other times?

Does the proton decay? While this was a famous prediction of Grand Unified Theories (GUTS) developed in the 1970s and 1980s, experimentalists have ruled it out—or rather, put lower limits on its mean lifetime of about 1034 ...

Social Sciences 23 hours ago

White-collar crimes: 'Fall from grace' and the stigma of reentry into society

People convicted of federal white-collar crimes come from different social and demographic backgrounds compared to those convicted of other offenses. Typically older and from the middle class, white-collar offenders face ...

Environment Mar 24, 2025

S. Korea authorities deploy choppers, troops to battle wildfire

South Korean authorities said Monday they would deploy dozens of helicopters and thousands of firefighters and soldiers as they struggle to control multiple wildfires in the southeast, which have been burning for days.

Astronomy Mar 23, 2025

Bridging the gap between the cosmic microwave background and the first galaxies

One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's first few hundred thousand years are shrouded in an impenetrable fog. So far, nobody's been able to ...

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