Year: 2024
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Space
Hubble telescope maps high-speed ‘extrusions’ from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for first time
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have mapped, for the first time ever, the plasma “burps” of a supermassive black…
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Physics
Researchers adjust the Casimir force using magnetic fields
Experiment setup and console design. Credit: Nature Physics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02521-0 Research teams led by Prof. Zeng Changgan and Zhang…
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Genetics
Multiple Sclerosis: Can Dietary Choices Influence Risk?
Share on PinterestAnother study suggests that diet may affect the risk of multiple sclerosis. Image credit: Painted Wood/Stocksy. Experts still…
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Environment
Life in a Hot Dome: The American West is Figuring Out How to Stay Cool
Getty Images From planting trees to painting streets white, American cities are fighting extreme heat. “The opportunities for mitigating the…
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Space
Mars has been cooked during a recent solar storm
The sun unleashed a flurry of radiation-filled explosions in May. When they crashed into Earth’s magnetic bubble, the world was…
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Physics
How can AI help physicists search for new particles?
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations are using cutting-edge machine learning techniques to search for exotic-looking collisions that may reveal new…
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Genetics
Researchers win $85 million to use ancient eDNA to inspire next-generation resilient crops: ‘Early data surprising’
A pioneering project exploring ancient environmental DNA (eDNA) – genetic material left by plants, animals and microbes in soil sediments,…
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Environment
7 million cattle killed by extreme weather phenomenon
An extreme weather phenomenon – blamed on climate change – has killed more than 7.1 million animals in Mongolia this…
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Space
The pair plasmas found in deep space can now be generated in the laboratory
How it works: A proton (far left) from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator at CERN hits carbon nuclei (small…
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Physics
Physicists use machine learning techniques to search for exotic-looking collisions that could reveal new physics
The occurrence of one of the CMS events determined by the AI algorithm as highly anomalous and therefore potentially coming…
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