
Physicists at EPFL, within a large European collaboration, have revised one of the fundamental laws that has been foundational to plasma and fusion research for over three decades, even governing the design of megaprojects like ITER. The update demonstrates that we can actually safely utilize more h
The recent precise measurement of the W boson mass produced by the non-dead CDF collaboration last month continues to be at the focus of attention by the scientific community, for a good reason - if correct, the CDF measurement in and of itself would be the conclusive proof that our trust in the Standard Model of particle physics when producing pre

Whether you need a new villain or an old Spider-Man, your sci-fi movie will sound more scientifically credible if you use the word multiverse. The Marvel multiverse puts multiple different versions of our universe “out there,” somewhere. In these films, with the right blend of technology, magic, and

This is a sonification — translation into sound — of the latest image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Using a radar-like scan, the sonification begins at the 12 o'clock position and sweeps clockwise.

Were you lucky enough to capture the blood moon this week? The full lunar eclipse should have been visible from Earth in North and South America, and parts of Europe, and Africa. It’s a pretty cool spectacle, especially this month when it was combined with a supermoon as well. But here’s an image of the […]
A young girl's tooth excavated from a cave wall in northeastern Laos is providing new insight into the mysterious extinct human species called Denisovans and revealing their resourcefulness in adapting to both tropical and chilly climes. The tooth is one of the few physical remains known of Denisovans, a sister lineage to Neanderthals who until now had been known only from scrappy dental and bone fossils from a single site…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise. The Insight lander is losing power because of all the dust on its solar panels. NASA said Tuesday it will keep using the spacecraft’s seismometer to register marsquakes until the power peters out, likely in July. Then flight controllers will monitor InSight until the end of this year, before calling everything off. “There really…

A handful of days after a pair of Falcon 9 rockets launched 106 Starlink satellites in less than 23 hours, SpaceX has already raised another Falcon 9 rocket vertical for another Starlink mission – set to be the fourth this month. That mission – Starlink 4-18 – will see SpaceX launch another batch of 53 […]
New find supports a wide range for this ancient human ancestor
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A young girl's tooth excavated from a cave wall in northeastern Laos is providing new insight into the mysterious extinct human species called Denisovans and revealing their resourcefulness in adapting to both tropical and chilly climes. The tooth is one of the few physical remains known of Denisovans, a sist...

A total lunar eclipse will grace the night skies this weekend, providing longer than usual thrills for stargazers across North and South America. The celestial action unfolds Sunday night into early Monday morning. The moon will be bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth's sunsets and sunrises for about 1 1/2 hours. It will be one of the longest totalities of the decade and the first so-called…

Prescription of steroids upon discharge from hospital for Covid-19 should become standard, argue authors. Evidence is growing that ‘long Covid’, that is, continued negative health... The post Steroids After COVID-19 Recovery May Cut “Long COVID” Risk of Death by Up to 51% appeared first on SciTechDaily.

The International Space Station (ISS) is preparing for the targeted arrival of Boeing’s Starliner crew ship on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission. Meanwhile,... The post Boeing Starliner Nears Launch As ISS Astronauts Work on Space Botany and Human Research appeared first on SciTechDaily.

To help researchers model climate effects, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission will measure the composition of minerals that become airborne dust. Blown... The post NASA’s EMIT Mission Will Map Tiny Dust Particles To Study Big Climate Impacts appeared first on SciTechDaily.

A comparison of four COVID-19 vaccinations shows that messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines — Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna — perform better against the World Health Organization (WHO)’s... The post mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines – Like Pfizer and Moderna – Work Better Against Variants of Concern appeared first on SciTechDaily.
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A team of scientists from Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the Federal University of Rondônia and the Federal University of Bahia has discovered two distinctive, undescribed species of the crenuchin genus Poecilocharax living in the tributaries of the Rio Aripuanã drainage, a large tributary of the Rio Madeira, Amazon Basin. “It was exciting to
Paleoanthropologists have found a permanent lower molar of a young, likely female, hominin individual at the Tam Ngu Hao 2 limestone cave in the Annamite Mountains, Laos. The close morphological affinities with the Xiahe specimen from China indicate that the specimen belongs to the same taxon and most likely represents a Denisovan. The Middle Pleistocene
The reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) is a globally threatened species and an iconic tourist attraction for visitors to Komodo National Park, an Indonesian UNESCO World Heritage Site. The reef manta ray is a species of ray in the family Mobulidae, one of the largest rays in the world. They are typically 3 to 3.5
Binary systems have received much attention as possible progenitors of Type Ia supernovae, but long-term gravitational effects in tight triple or quadruple systems could also play a key role in producing stellar explosion of this type. In new research, a team of astronomers from Europe and New Zealand studied properties of HD 74438, a 2+2
A multinational team of scientists has performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis of clinically diagnosed and self-reported hearing impairment on 723,266 individuals and identified 48 significant genes, 10 of which are new to science. Their results cast doubt on the understanding that age-related hearing impairment originates mainly from sensory hair cells. They argue that the stria
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured the brilliance of a globular cluster called NGC 6558. Globular clusters are dense systems of very ancient stars, gravitationally bound into a single structure about 100-200 light-years across. The word globulus, from which these clusters take their name, is Latin for small sphere. Globular clusters are
A team of researchers in Paraguay have described a beautiful new species of the snake genus Phalotris from the Paraguayan department of San Pedro. Phalotris is a group of small to medium-sized, semi-fossorial snakes in the family Colubridae. First described in 1862, these snakes are noted for their striking coloration with red, black, and yellow
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new photo of UGC 10143, a giant elliptical galaxy located in the center of the galaxy cluster Abell 2147. UGC 10143 lies approximately 486 million light-years away in the constellation of Serpens. Also known as LEDA 56784 and Arp 324, this galaxy is the
Using neutron and X-ray tomography, a team of planetary researchers from Lund University and elsewhere examined a section of Miller Range (MIL) 03346, a nakhlite meteorite from Miller Range in Antarctica. Nakhlites are a group of igneous Martian meteorites that are rich in minerals called pyroxene and olivine. One key finding in these meteorites is
GOES-18 (also known as GOES-T) is a new next-generation weather satellite of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). GOES-T launched on March 1, 2022, at 4:38 p.m. EST, lifting off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The satellite launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41.
Humans and other animals learn to extract general concepts from sensory experience without extensive teaching. This ability is thought to be facilitated by offline states like sleep where previous experiences are systemically replayed. However, the characteristic creative nature of dreams suggests that learning semantic representations may go beyond merely replaying previous experiences. “The importance of
The Hubble team has released a beautiful image of part of the Little Sombrero galaxy (also known as NGC 7814). NGC 7814 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located approximately 47.6 million light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus. Otherwise known as the Little Sombrero, LEDA 218, UGC 8, Caldwell 43 and IRAS F00006+1552, the galaxy
Using samples brought back from NASA’s Apollo 11, 12, and 17 missions, University of Florida biologists showed that a model terrestrial plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, can successfully germinate and grow in diverse lunar regoliths. “For future, longer space missions, we may use the Moon as a hub or launching pad. It makes sense that we would
Scientists have created a bio-photovoltaic energy harvester system using a species of photosynthetic blue-green algae called Synechocystis on an aluminum anode that can power an Arm Cortex M0+, a microprocessor widely used in Internet of Things applications. Sustainable, affordable and decentralized sources of electrical energy are required to power the network of electronic devices known
IC 342 resides approximately 8.9 million light-years away in the constellation of Camelopardalis. IC 342 was discovered in 1892 by the British astronomer William Frederick Denning. Also known as UGC 2847, LEDA 13826 and Caldwell 5, it is one of the brightest galaxies in the IC 342/Maffei group. Although IC 342 is bright, it sits
Blueberry supplementation has neurocognitive benefit in middle-aged individuals with insulin resistance and elevated risk for future dementia, according to a new study published in the journal Nutrients. Nearly six million older adults live with dementia in the United States. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for up to 80% of dementia cases, and it is projected that there
The new image produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration shows the area close to the event horizon of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. “We were stunned by how well the size of the ring agreed with predictions from Albert Einstein’s theory of
Scientists from West Virginia University have found ancient cells of prokaryotes and eukaryotes within fluid inclusions in halite crystals from the Neoproterozoic Browne Formation in central Australia. “As halite crystals grow in saline surface waters, it traps parent water in primary fluid inclusions,” said Sara Schreder-Gomes and her colleagues from the Department of Geology and
On May 4, 2022, NASA’s InSight lander detected a magnitude 5 quake on Mars — the strongest ever detected on another planet. The largest previously recorded marsquake was an estimated magnitude 4.2 detected on August 25, 2021. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a lander designed to give
To test their hypothesis that the eastern moa (Emeus crassus), an extinct flightless bird from New Zealand, survived the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in a single glacial refugium in the southern South Island, a team of researchers from the University of Otago and the Université de Toulouse has analyzed ancient mitochondrial DNA extracted from several
University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has developed a more accurate, less invasive technology that allows amputees to
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Hacker collective Anonymous have announced on their Twitter account that they have successfully hacked the information system of
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine reminded the world about other disputes along the border of the Russian federation.
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Globally-known international hacker group ‘Anonymous’ has hacked more than 300 websites associated directly or indirectly with Russian government
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Ukraine is – was – the home of the world’s largest aircraft AN-225. Several hours ago today Ukraine’s