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With Earth-like canyons and oceans of liquid methane, Saturn’s moon Titan is one of the most fascinating places in the solar system. To better understand this weird world, scientists recreated Titan’s alien oceans in the lab, producing new ty… Continue reading Alien-ocean-in-a-lab experiments produce new crystals not found on Earth
Although Saturn sports the most impressive ring system in our neighborhood, it’s not alone. Uranus is also packing some rings, although they’re usually too faint to see without a powerful telescope. But a striking new set of images shows these rings in very clear detail thanks to thermal imaging, while also allowing astronomers to measure their temperature for the first time.
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Continue Reading Thermal vision highlights Uranus’s rarely-seen rings
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Continue reading Thermal vision highlights Uranus's rarely-seen rings
A new study has revealed the role that regular bugs play in spreading superbugs. A team from Aston University examined almost 20,000 insects collected from National Health Service (NHS) hospitals across the United Kingdom, and studied the kin… Continue reading Insects found to be flying superbugs around hospitals
More and more phones and devices are able to be charged wirelessly these days, but that usually still requires a pad for each that takes up a power plug. Now, a Spanish start-up called Proton New Energy Future has unveiled Ebörd, a smart tabl… Continue reading Swanky solar-powered table wirelessly charges multiple devices at once
It’s not entirely news that the Earth’s ice budget is under threat from a warming climate, but a new study has looked into just how fast that’s happening. Using recently declassified spy satellite photos, researchers found that compared to the last quarter of the 20th century, Himalayan glaciers have been melting twice as fast this century. In a rare piece of good news, a separate study has shown that a Greenland glacier has gained ice for the third year in a row.
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Continue Reading Declassified spy satellite photos reveal accelerating ice loss at Earth’s “third pole”
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Like the seafarers of old, future spacecraft could be getting around under the power of sails. But of course, with no wind in space, these sails are catching another method of propulsion – photons from starlight. The tech is soon due to be de… Continue reading LightSail 2 CubeSat launches next week to test photon propulsion system that could take us interstellar
Evolution is usually a gradual process, but about half a billion years ago it took off at a gallop in an event that’s now known as the Cambrian Explosion. One of the leading theories is that this was thanks to a huge spike in oxygen levels, a… Continue reading How plate tectonics may have changed the climate and paved the way for complex life to evolve
Genes get shuffled and re-dealt with every new generation, meaning many are relatively recent. But while exploring the “dark heart” of the human genome, geneticists have now found some of the most ancient pieces of DNA, inherited from Neander… Continue reading Neanderthal and unknown human ancestor DNA found in the "dark heart" of chromosomes
If you’ve ever been kept awake by that ringing in your ears when everything else is quiet, you’d be familiar with how frustrating tinnitus can be. Now, research led by the University of Arizona may have uncovered a new potential treatment tar… Continue reading Treating brain inflammation could help silence tinnitus
Considering how common asthma is, it’s rather surprising that we don’t know all that much about how the condition works. Now, as part of the Human Cell Atlas initiative researchers have mapped the different types of cells in the lungs, and sp… Continue reading Detailed lung cell map uncovers new pieces of the asthma puzzle