Search for Strange Skyrmion Phenomenon Fails but Finds Stranger Magnetic Beaded Necklace
Physicists on the hunt for a rarely seen magnetic spin texture have discovered another object that bears its hallmarks, hidden ...
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Europa Clipper – NASA’s Mission to Search for Life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa – Just Hit a Significant Milestone
NASA’s Europa Clipper, depicted in this illustration that was updated in December 2020, will swoop around Jupiter on an elliptical ...
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NIRVANA: Fast, Portable Test Can Diagnose COVID-19 and Track Variants
The NIRVANA field-test kit. Credit: Mo Li/KAUST The field test, called NIRVANA, can simultaneously detect and sequence SARS-CoV-2, influenza and ...
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Strange New Auroral Feature Discovered on Jupiter
The SwRI-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) orbiting Jupiter aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft allowed scientists to discover faint aurora features likely triggered ...
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AI Capable of Generating Novel, Functionally Active Proteins to Speed Up Drug Development
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, present a way to generate synthetic proteins using Artificial Intelligence. The new approach ...
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Surprising Evidence for PeVatrons, the Milky Way’s Most Powerful Particle Accelerators
Figure 1. Distribution of the ultra-high-energy gamma rays (yellow points) detected by the Tibet ASγ experiment in the galactic coordinate ...
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Giant Fossil’s “Bird-Brain” – Whopping Head Was Crammed for Space
The giant mihirung Dromornis stirtoni, by artist Peter Trusler. Credit: Peter Trusler The largest flightless bird ever to live weighed ...
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Do You Know the Way to Berkelium, Californium? Scientists Map Uncharted Paths With Heavy Elements
Scientists at Berkeley Lab’s predecessor, the UC Radiation Laboratory, discovered berkelium in 1949, and californium in 1950. Today, Berkeley Lab ...
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Solving the Chicken-and-the-Egg Problem – “A Step Closer to the Reconstruction of the Origin of Life”
A Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich team has shown that slight alterations in transfer-RNA molecules (tRNAs) allow them to self-assemble into ...
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Twice As Much Carbon Flowing From Land to Ocean Than Previously Thought – 900–1,900 Million Tons per Year
Schematic figure showing the new estimates of river, groundwater and coastal ecosystem carbon transport from land to ocean. Credit: Eun ...
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