According to a recent study, electrical discharges from trees on their sharp, pointed leaves cause thunderstorms to impact the quality of the air around them. On the leaves of trees, weak electrical…
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Resistance is not futile: ‘Borg’ can help fight climate change – study
Borg DNA packages share more than name with a cybernetic hive-mind collective of the star trek frankness – like their namesake, they can assimilate genes, and according to a new study, this…
“Scary action from a distance” can lead to a multiverse. Here’s how.
Some interpretations of quantum mechanics propose that our entire universe is described by a single universal wave function that is constantly dividing and multiplying, producing a new reality for every possible quantum…
The Atacama, the driest desert in the world, blooms after heavy rains
The driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert, which is located along the western coast of the South American Cone and stretches for about 1,600 km. Some of the weather stations…
The Atacama, the driest desert in the world, blooms after heavy rains
The driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert, which is located along the western coast of the South American Cone and stretches for about 1,600 km. Some of the weather stations…
A nearby star has completely destroyed its planet’s atmosphere
What if you put an Earth-sized planet in a close orbit around an M dwarf star? This is more than an academic question since M dwarfs are the most numerous stars we…
Scientists surprised by their discovery of the heaviest element barium in the atmosphere of 2 exoplanets
New Delhi: Thanks to the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have, for the first time, discovered the heaviest element ever found in the atmosphere of an exoplanet: barium….
439-million-year-old fossil teeth upend long-held views on evolution
Volumetric reconstruction of a dental whorl seen from its lingual side (holotype of Qianodus duplicis). The specimen is just over 2 mm long. Credit: Zhu, et al. Rare Chinese fossil teeth have…
Artemis Accords: An Alliance to Take the World, Not Just the United States, to the Moon and Beyond
But the second great space race isn’t expected to look much like the first from the 1960s. So to speak, it won’t be one or two superpowers battling it out for space…
Record-breaking measurement of the universe suggests ‘something is fishy’
PARIS — The most precise measurements ever made of the composition of the universe and its rate of expansion suggest “something is fishy” in our understanding of the cosmos, said the astrophysicist…