NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully completed integration of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument onto Roman's Instrument Carrier, a piece of infrastructure that will hold the mission's instruments, ...
Astronomy
Oct 28, 2024
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Geneticists have studied the distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroups on the Faroe Islands, known to have been colonized by Vikings around the year 900 CE, and compared these to distributions of haplogroups in today's Scandinavia.
Archaeology
Nov 25, 2024
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How did everything begin? It's a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang.
Astronomy
Oct 31, 2024
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A new study highlights the importance of kindness in academic workplaces, especially as many health professionals face increasing levels of burnout. Kanoho Hosoda, director of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Native ...
Social Sciences
Nov 8, 2024
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Cause and effect. We understand this concept from an early age. Tug on a pull toy's string, and the toy follows. Naturally, things get much more complicated as a system grows, as the number of variables increases, and as ...
Mathematics
Nov 1, 2024
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Cratons are fascinating yet enigmatic geological formations. Known to be relatively stable portions of the Earth's continental crust, cratons have remained largely unchanged for billions of years. Although cratons have survived ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 3, 2024
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Researchers at Colorado State University have found a new approach for breaking down PFAS—a group of human-made "forever" chemicals commonly used for their water-resistant properties that can carry health risks from long-term ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 20, 2024
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New research led by a team from Royal Holloway and the World Bank asserts that teaching methods should improve, after discovering that global literacy goals will not be met without major intervention.
Education
Nov 11, 2024
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Black holes are one of the most enigmatic stellar objects. While best known for swallowing up their surroundings into a gravity pit from which nothing can escape, they can also shoot off powerful jets of charged particles, ...
Astronomy
Nov 18, 2024
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The next head of Europe's CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favored moving forward with plans for a giant particle collider far more powerful than the collider that discovered the famous "God particle".
General Physics
Nov 7, 2024
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