Thursday, 30 October 2025

Vast patches of glassy rock in Chilean desert likely created by ancient exploding comet

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 158 views | 0 comments

Heat from a comet exploding just above the ground fused the sandy soil into patches of glass stretching 75 kilometers, a new study found.

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A commonly found parasite could treat certain types of cancer, say scientists

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 168 views | 0 comments

Scientists have discovered that a deadly parasite, known to cause ill health in pregnant women and immunocompromised patients, could potentially be used to treat various types of tumors.

Tags: Cancer , Scientists , Women

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Light pollution makes crickets chirp in the daytime and may disrupt reproductive processes, research finds

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 161 views | 0 comments

Exposing male crickets to artificial light at night (ALAN) can impair their activity cycles. According to the researchers, nocturnal chirping is the male's way of calling females to come and mate with him, and its disruption can interfere with reproduction processes and even endanger the entire species.

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Baby seals can change their tone of voice

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 163 views | 0 comments

Can baby seals adapt their voices to sounds? Researchers have now studied seal pups only a few weeks old. The pups lowered the pitch of their voice when they heard louder noises. This vocal flexibility makes seals an excellent animal model for studying the evolution of human speech.

Tags: Animals , Seal , Seat

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Physicists discover how particles self-assemble

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 164 views | 0 comments

A team of physicists has discovered how DNA molecules self-organize into adhesive patches between particles in response to assembly instructions. Its findings offer a 'proof of concept' for an innovative way to produce materials with a well-defined connectivity between the particles.

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Recognizing familiar faces relies on a neural code shared across brains

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 163 views | 0 comments

The ability to recognize familiar faces is fundamental to social interaction. This process provides visual information and activates social and personal knowledge about a person who is familiar. But how the brain processes this information across participants has long been a question. Distinct information about familiar faces is encoded in a neural code that is shared across brains, according to a new study.

Tags: Beer

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Spiders' web secrets unraveled

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 170 views | 0 comments

Researchers discovered precisely how spiders build webs by using night vision and artificial intelligence to track and record every movement of all eight legs as spiders worked in the dark. Their creation of a web-building playbook or algorithm brings new understanding of how creatures with brains a fraction of the size of a human's are able to create structures of such elegance, complexity and geometric precision.

Tags: LEGO , Spiders

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Honeybees use social distancing to protect themselves against parasites

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 157 views | 0 comments

Honeybees increase social distancing when their hive is under threat from a parasite, finds a new study.

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Juno peers deep into Jupiter’s colorful belts and zones

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 842 views | 0 comments

A new study of data captured in orbit around Jupiter has revealed new insights into what's happening deep beneath the gas giant's distinctive and colorful bands.

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Unlocking the technology to produce unbreakable screens

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 154 views | 0 comments

Cracked phone screens could become a thing of the past thanks to breakthrough research The researchers have unlocked the technology to produce next-generation composite glass for lighting LEDs and smartphone, television and computer screens. The findings will enable the manufacture of glass screens that are not only unbreakable but also deliver crystal clear image quality.

Tags: LEDs , Smartphones , Technology , Television

Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Intriguing insect fossils preserved in amber

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 171 views | 0 comments

What zoologists have discovered in samples of ancient amber -- insect larvae with unusual morphologies and larvae of early flying insects.

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These hips don’t lie: 3D imaging of a pelvis suggests social care for saber-tooths

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 159 views | 0 comments

A new study reveals saber-toothed cats suffered from hip dysplasia, an affliction common in pet cats and dogs, and points to supportive social structures for Smilodon.

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Astronomers discover massive galaxy 'shipyard' in the distant universe

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 174 views | 0 comments

Astronomers have discovered a structure thought to be a 'protocluster' of galaxies on its way to developing into a galaxy supercluster. Observations show the protocluster, which is located 11 billion light-years from Earth, as it appeared when the universe was 3 billion years old, when stars were produced at higher rates in certain regions of the cosmos.

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The upside-down orbits of a multi-planetary system

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 176 views | 0 comments

When planets form, they usually continue their orbital evolution in the equatorial plane of their star. However, an international team, led by astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has discovered that the exoplanets of a star in the constellation Pisces orbit in planes perpendicular to each other, with the innermost planet the only one still orbiting in the equatorial plane. Why so? This radically different configuration from our solar system could be due to the influence of a distant companion of the star that is still unknown. This study, to be read in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, was made possible by the extreme precision achieved by ESPRESSO and CHEOPS, two instruments whose development was led by Switzerland.

Tags: Cher , Genes , LEDs , Planes , Switzerland

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Tiny pterosaurs dominated Cretaceous skies

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 161 views | 0 comments

The newly hatched juveniles of large and gigantic pterosaurs likely out-competed other smaller adult pterosaur species to dominate the Late Cretaceous period around 100 million years ago, a new study has found.

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Making Martian rocket biofuel on Mars

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 168 views | 0 comments

Researchers have developed a concept that would make Martian rocket fuel, on Mars, that could be used to launch future astronauts back to Earth.

Tags: Fuel , Mars

Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Red paint on 1,000-year-old gold mask from Peru contains human blood proteins

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 170 views | 0 comments

Thirty years ago, archeologists excavated the tomb of an elite 40--50-year-old man from the Sicán culture of Peru, a society that predated the Incas. The man's seated, upside-down skeleton was painted bright red, as was the gold mask covering his detached skull. Now, researchers have analyzed the paint, finding that, in addition to a red pigment, it contains human blood and bird egg proteins.

Tags: Gold , Seal , Seat

Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Powerful X-ray technique finds new degradation-inducing materials in British shipwreck

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 169 views | 0 comments

In 1545, King Henry VIII's favorite ship, the Mary Rose, capsized and sank in the Battle of the Solent defending England and Portsmouth from a French invasion fleet. The wreck remained on the seabed until 1982 when it was salvaged in a widely viewed televised event. Now, it is a time capsule for 16th century Tudor society, and conservators are working to preserve it for future generations. Scientists use X-ray analysis to identify previously undetected products in the wood -- nanoparticles originating from underwater bacterial activity.

Tags: Bacteria , England , Mars , Scientists , Seal , Seat

Source: www.sciencedaily.com

The surprising origins of the Tarim Basin mummies

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 159 views | 0 comments

Researchers have determined the genetic origins of Asia's most enigmatic mummies. Once thought to be Indo-European speaking migrants from the West, the Bronze Age Tarim Basin mummies are revealed to be a local indigenous population with deep Asian roots and taste for far-flung cuisine.

Tags: Genes

Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Making the strange metal state in high temperature superconductors even stranger

Added: 09.11.2021 22:23 | 163 views | 0 comments

Researchers have uncovered a striking new behavior of the 'strange metal' state of high temperature superconductors. The discovery represents an important piece of the puzzle for understanding these materials.

Tags: Temperatures

Source: www.sciencedaily.com

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