Layering, not liquid: Astronomers explain Mars' watery reflections
There is water in many places on Mars, including most of both polar ice caps—all in the frozen form.
There is water in many places on Mars, including most of both polar ice caps—all in the frozen form.
Astronomy
Sep 26, 2022
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Mitochondria are compartments—so-called "organelles"—in our cells that provide the chemical energy supply we need to move, think, and live. Chloroplasts are organelles in plants and algae that capture sunlight and perform ...
Evolution
Sep 16, 2022
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A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have devised a new quantum algorithm to compute the lowest energies of molecules at specific configurations ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 13, 2022
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Cramming multiple pairs of shoes into a vacation suitcase, twisting and flipping them into different arrangements to fit every pair needed, is a familiar optimization problem faced by harried travelers. This same problem ...
Soft Matter
Aug 19, 2022
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An improvement to a computer model may help scientists better predict the future moves of political factions and locate where they might interact with other—often rival—groups, according to Penn State researchers. Predicting ...
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2022
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Swarms of microrobots injected into the human body could unblock internal medical devices and avoid the need for further surgery, according to new research from the University of Essex.
Bio & Medicine
Aug 18, 2022
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When early humans discovered how to harness fire, they were able to push back against the nightly darkness that enveloped them. With the invention and widespread adoption of electricity, it became easier to separate heat ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 16, 2022
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In its heyday, UIUC's Blue Waters was one of the world's top supercomputers. Anyone who was curious could drop by its 30,000-square-foot machine room for a tour, and spend half an hour strolling among the 288 huge black cabinets, ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 3, 2022
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Hostility to immigrants isn't new to the United States. In 1896, Henry Cabot Lodge warned on the Senate floor that the "mental and moral qualities" of Americans would be endangered by the "wholesale infusion of races whose ...
Social Sciences
Aug 2, 2022
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In a study published in the journal Genome Research, investigators in UC San Diego's Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Johns Hopkins University have illuminated the immunoglobulin (antibody) genes in 20 mammalian ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 1, 2022
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