An obscure aquatic plant has helped to explain how plants avoid cracking up under the stresses and strains of growth.
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2023
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A new planet-hunting instrument at W. M. Keck Observatory has achieved "first light," capturing its first data from the sky and marking an exciting chapter in the search for Earth-sized planets around other stars, which are ...
Astronomy
Nov 11, 2022
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The count of confirmed exoplanets has just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes.
Space Exploration
Mar 21, 2022
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A combined team of researchers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has found evidence that Mars has a Chandler wobble. In their paper published in the ...
One of the great things about science is that, when you start to observe a new object in space, you can never be sure quite what you'll find.
Astronomy
Apr 30, 2019
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Austria and Germany has shown that introducing environmental noise to a line of ions can lead to enhanced transport of energy across them. In their paper published ...
A group with researchers of the Technical University of Munich, Germany, are the first to plot changes in the Earth's axis through laboratory measurements. To do this, they constructed the world's most stable ring laser. ...
General Physics
Dec 22, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Chandler Wobble is a small variation in the rotation of the Earth on its axis. It has been known for some time that the phase of the Chandler Wobble jumped by 180 degrees in the 1920s, but a new study ...
