Enlarge / Drone image of a car driving through the NamibRand Nature Reserve, one of the fairy circle regions in Namibia. Stephane Getzin So-called “fairy circles” are bare, reddish-hued circular spots found…
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NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover arrives at an interesting salty location after a perilous journey
After a perilous journey, NASA’s Mars Curiosity probe has reached an area that formed billions of years ago when the Red Planet’s waters disappeared. This area of Mount Sharp Curiosity roams the…
Heads up! Taurid Meteor Swarm is expected to light up the night starting next week
We could see a dramatic increase in the number of fireballs crossing the night sky over the next few weeks, thanks to the Taurid Meteor Swarm. Every year, from September to November,…
How a single human hair almost stopped a SpaceX launch
Crew Dragon Endurance atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on October 1, 2022. Photo: SpaceX Engineers say FOD is a four-letter word, but there’s nothing funny about foreign object debris and its…
Prions induce toxic huntingtin oligomers
Illustration of yeast cells during illumination with blue light. Credit: Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or Huntington’s disease are characterized by the deposition of clusters of proteins, called…
Anomalous magnetic moment of the muon: a new enigma unfolds
Continuum extrapolation for the isovector quark contribution to the SU(3)F– symmetrical tip. Left: use Fπ– rescaling. Right: with you0 to adjust the scale. The blue and green dots correspond to the two…
Discovery could drastically reduce the search for space creatures
Newswise – An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf – the most common type of star in the universe – appears to have no atmosphere. This discovery could cause a major shift…
Botswana diamond proves Earth’s mantle transition zone has water reserves, not a dry sponge
It was previously believed that the Earth’s transition zone was a dry sponge, but a recent study revealed that there were reserves of water there. More information about this region between the…
Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA | Cornell Chronicle
Butterfly wing patterns have a basic blueprint, which is manipulated by non-coding regulatory DNA to create the diversity of wings seen in different species, according to new research. The study, “Deep cis-regulatory…
Reading out a single phonon and cooling the ground state with a trapped electron brings quantum computing closer
Schematics of proposed hybrid ion-electron quantum systems involving a trapped electron. Image caption: Scientists at the University of Tokyo have invented a way to cool and measure the motion of an electron…