Soil moisture content is the main factor that controls how far and at what concentration natural gas spreads from a leaking pipeline underground, according to a new study. Pipeline operators should consider…
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Researchers Create Lunar Regolith Bricks That Could Be Used To Build Artemis Base Camp
Using resources found in space to build off-world structures can greatly reduce the need to transport building materials for programs like Artemis. Part of NASA’s Artemis program to establish a long-term presence…
Tree rings offer glimpses of devastating radiation storms
A composite image showing a tree ring and flames – UQ researchers used tree ring data to model the global carbon cycle to challenge the common theory about Miyake events. Credit: University…
Seals have a sense of rhythm
The ability to perceive rhythm and produce new vocalizations is crucial to human speech and music. Do other mammals have these abilities? Researchers tested rhythm processing in seals; Like humans, seals learn…
Researchers create the first Bose-Einstein quasiparticle condensate
Newswise — Physicists have created the first Bose-Einstein condensate — the mysterious ‘fifth state’ of matter — made up of quasiparticles, entities that don’t count as elementary particles but can still have…
EarthSky | Taurid Meteors: Will there be a swarm this year?
You can see that this meteor radiates from the constellation of Taurus Taurus. See that V-shaped pattern to the right and above Orion? This is the Hyades star cluster, which forms the…
A new technique for determining age will usher in a new era of planetary science, researchers say
The coming decade should bring a real boon for planetary science: space missions are planned to bring back rock samples from the moon, Mars, the Martian moon of Phobos and an early…
Laying the geological foundations of life on Earth – Astrobiology
An interior cross-section of the early Earth highlighting its major geodynamic processes. Magnetic field lines are drawn in blue and red emanating from the liquid core that generated them, as plate tectonic…
A “gate” in the mitochondrial membrane
Mitochondria – the organelles responsible for producing energy in human cells – were once free living organisms that found their way into the earliest eukaryotic cells more than a billion years ago….
The Next Miracle Semiconductor: Using Ultrafast Scanning Electron Microscopy, Researchers Unveil Promising Hot Photocarrier Transport Properties of Cubic Boron Arsenide
In a study that confirms its promise as a next-generation semiconductor material, UC Santa Barbara researchers directly visualized the photocarrier transport properties of cubic boron arsenide single crystals. “We were able to…