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WEBMartian ‘Spiders’ Re-Created in Lab for First Time. Martian ‘spiders’ are small, dark, spider-shaped features up to 1 km (0.6 miles) across. The leading theory is that they form when spring sunshine falls on layers of carbon dioxide deposited over the dark winter months. Thanks to new experiments, a team of scientists at NASA has, for ...
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WEBSep 13, 2024 by News Staff. Using images from the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, planetary scientists have spotted a fresh volcano with multiple lava flows and volcanic deposits covering an area about 180 x 180 km. A comparison of the JunoCam image from February 2024 with Galileo spacecraft imagery of the same area in ...
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WEBSep 12, 2024 · Common Food Dye Makes Skin, Muscle Reversibly Transparent in Live Animals. Sep 5, 2024 by News Staff. Researchers at Stanford University have found that an aqueous solution of a common food color approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, tartrazine, has the effect of reversibly making the skin, muscle, and …
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WEB3 days ago · Sep 4, 2024 by Natali Anderson. Named Haliotis pirimoana, the newly-identified gastropod species is only found at Manawatāwhi Three Kings Islands, off New Zealand’s North Island. Shells of Haliotis pirimoana from Manawatāwhi Three Kings Islands (A-D) and Haliotis virginea (E-G). Scale bar – 5 mm in (A-C) and 0.5 mm in (D-G).
Scientists Discover Impenetrable Barrier 11,500 km above Earth
WEBNov 27, 2014 · Next ». A group of researchers headed by Prof Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has discovered a nearly impenetrable barrier some 11,500 km above our planet that blocks so-called ‘killer electrons,’ which can fry satellites and degrade space systems during intense solar storms.
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WEBJul 31, 2024 · Sep 9, 2024 by News Staff. In their experiments, physicists at the University of Bonn and the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau observed the dimensional crossover from one to two dimensions in a harmonically trapped gas of photons (light particles) and studied its properties. The photons were trapped in a dye microcavity where polymer ...
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WEBMay 7, 2024 · Scientists have been aware of this phenomenon for decades, but the precise origins of the illumination have been the subject of debate. “In 1923, Arthur Compton discovered that gamma photons possessed sufficient momentum to strongly interact with free or bound electrons,” Dr. Fishman said. “This helped prove that light had both wave …
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WEBAug 19, 2024 · Common Food Dye Makes Skin, Muscle Reversibly Transparent in Live Animals. Sep 5, 2024 by News Staff. Researchers at Stanford University have found that an aqueous solution of a common food color approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, tartrazine, has the effect of reversibly making the skin, muscle, and …
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WEB3 days ago · Sep 9, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers a detailed new image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5668. In this image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5668, Hubble was used to examine the surroundings of the Type II supernova event labeled SN 2004G, seeking to study the …
Scientists Unveil Nature’s Missing Evolutionary Law - Sci.News
WEBOct 18, 2023 · Charles Darwin applied the theory of evolution to life on Earth, but not to other massively complex systems like planets, stars, atoms and minerals. Wong et al. identified a missing aspect of that theory that applies to essentially everything. Image credit: NASA. “This was a true collaboration between scientists and philosophers to address ...
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