How do planets form? How do galaxies evolve? And ultimately, how did the universe itself begin? A unique astronomical observatory that researchers hope will unravel some of the biggest mysteries ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-observatory-chile-highest-world-aims.html
Nothing lives forever, but compared to other cells in the body, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are remarkably long-lived. HSCs are blood-forming cells—they give rise to rapidly dividing progen...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-uncovers-secret-stem-cells.html
Around 6,200 BCE, the climate changed. Global temperatures dropped, sea levels rose and the southern Levant, including modern-day Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, southern Sy...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-ancient-village-drought-seas.html
Bacteriophages, or phages for short, are viruses that infect bacteria and kill them through a lysis process. Phages can kill bacteria on or in a multicellular host organism, such as the polyp of ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-polyps-moon-jellyfish-repel-viral.html
Researchers who want to bridge the divide between biology and technology spend a lot of time thinking about translating between the two different "languages" of those realms.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-electrochemical-transistors-scientists-chemical-mystery.html
Common household products containing nanoparticles—grains of engineered material so miniscule they are invisible to the eye—could be contributing to a new form of indoor air pollution, accord...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-room-nanoparticles-left-consumer-sprays.html
It's a common belief that purebred dogs are more prone to disease than mixed-breed dogs, but a new study led by researchers at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-dispels-myth-purebred-dogs-prone.html
The link between massive flood basalt volcanism and the end-Triassic (201 million years ago) mass extinction is commonly accepted. However, exactly how volcanism led to the collapse of ecosystems...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-climate-mercury-pollution-stressed-millions.html
Thermoelectric systems are a green and sustainable way to harvest energy from any form of heat that otherwise would be wasted. At the core of this energy conversion process is the so-called Seebe...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-exploiting-disorder-harvest-energy-potentialities.html
A team of astronomers and citizen scientists has discovered a planet in the habitable zone of an unusual star system, including two stars and potentially another exoplanet.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-citizen-scientists-exoplanet-binary-star.html
An asteroid dubbed "Lucy's baby" after a NASA spacecraft discovered it is orbiting another asteroid last November is,, in fact,, a solar system toddler—just 2–3 million years old, a Cornell-l...
Together with cooperation partners from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad (Serbia), the National Museum Zrenjanin and the National Museum Pančevo, a team from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence h...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-archaeology-team-year-settlement-serbia.html
Creating heat from fusion reactions requires carefully manipulating the properties of plasma, the electrically charged fourth state of matter that makes up 99% of the visible universe.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-instrument-scientists-tailor-plasma-fusion.html
Can chatbots provide accurate information about the dangers of climate change? Well, that depends on a variety of factors including the specific topic, location being considered, and how much the...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-chatbots-chime-climate-explore-potential.html
In winter 2021, Australia's frogs started dropping dead. People began posting images of dead frogs on social media. Unable to travel to investigate the deaths ourselves because of COVID lockdowns...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-pesticides-australian-frogs-mass-deaths.html
High refractive index polymers (HRIPs) are essential for manufacturing modern optoelectronic devices, including displays and light sensors. However, high-performance HRIPs are expensive and envir...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-high-refractive-index-polymers-sustainable.html
A team of ecologists, environmentalists and biologists from several institutions in China, working with a colleague from Nepal and another in the U.S., has found an instance of mimicry in a speci...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-mimicry-lesser-necklaced-laughingthrush-birds.html
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers, including scientists from MPIA, constructed a global temperature map of the hot, gas giant exoplanet WASP-43b. The nearby paren...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-clouds-blanket-night-side-hot.html
Over the course of its elliptical orbit, the moon Enceladus is squeezed unevenly by Saturn's gravitational pull and deforms from a spherical shape into a football shape and back again. This cycli...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-enceladus-guts-strikeslip-motion.html
The past 10 years have seen a series of "warm blobs" in the northeast Pacific Ocean. These marine heat waves do widespread damage to ecosystems and marine life in the area, but the mechanisms by ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-atmospheric-teleconnections-sustain-blobs-northeast.html
A team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has drawn inspiration from a wide variety of natural geometric motifs—including those of 12-sided dice and potato chips—in...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-class-spongy-materials-precisely.html
A new type of bioplastic could help reduce the plastic industry's environmental footprint. Researchers led by the University of California San Diego have developed a biodegradable form of thermop...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-biodegradable-plastic-houses-bacterial-spores.html
An estimated 168 billion gallons of wastewater—or produced water—is generated annually by the Permian Basin fracking industry, according to a 2022 report by the Texas Produced Water Consortiu...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-virus-billions-gallons-wastewater-fracking.html
Recent research shows that if communities think outsiders are stealing their forest resources, they are more likely to want to increase their own harvest.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-believing-environmental-bottom.html
Researchers have discovered a new mechanism of oil biosynthesis and found a way to genetically engineer a type of test plant to more efficiently produce different kinds of seed oil that it otherw...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-discovery-mechanism-seed-oil-impact.html
It has been more than 40 years since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and scientists still don't fully understand how HIV enters and replicates in human cells, which has hindered the develo...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-mechanical-pressure-triggers-key-event.html
Using data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from Turkey and India have investigated NGC 188—an old open cluster in the Milky Way. Results of the study, published April 19 on the pre-print...
Oxidative redispersion at elevated temperatures has long been utilized in heterogeneous catalysis for the regeneration of sintered metal catalysts and the synthesis of metal single atom and clust...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-reveal-oxidative-redispersion-metal-nanoparticles.html
The world's most pressing issues such as climate change will only be solved through global cooperation. New research by academics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), pu...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-current-global-collaboration.html
As the world faces the loss of a staggering number of species of animals and plants to endangerment and extinction, one University of Michigan scientist has an urgent message: Chemists and pharma...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-link-species-pharmacists-chemists-tide.html