ESAIL Microsatellite Captures 2,000,000 Messages From 70,000 Ships at Sea in a Single Day

ESAIL tracks ships worldwide by detecting messages that ships radio-broadcast with their automatic identification systems, enabling them to be identified ...
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Bioengineers Learn the Secrets to Precisely Turning on and off Genes in Living Cells

Like the layers of a Russian doll, using multi-level regulation in an engineered cell ensures gene expression only switches on ...
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How the Giant Asteroid That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs Gave Rise to Modern Rainforests

About 66 million years ago, a huge asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatan, plunging the Earth into darkness. ...
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India Can Boost Clean Energy While Doubling Its Power Supply by 2030

Highway and wind turbines in Tamil Nadu, India. India has ambitious scale-up plans for renewable energy over the next decade. ...
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Astronomers Spot Stellar Eggs Near Center of the Milky Way Hatching Into Baby Stars

Gas moving toward us is shown in blue and gas moving away from us is shown in red. Credit: ALMA ...
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How Life on Land Recovered After “The Great Dying” Mass Extinction Event

The plant-eating pareiasaurs were preyed on by sabre-toothed gorgonopsians. Both groups died out during the end-Permian mass extinction, or “The ...
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spies Movement of Shadows Near the Moon’s South Pole

At the Moon’s North and South Poles, the Sun is never more than 1.5° above or below the horizon. The ...
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“Eat Me!” – The Cell Signal of Death

Cut-away pieces of XRCC4 protein travel out of the nucleus to the cell membrane to activate scramblases, turning on an ...
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Distant Stars Spiraling Towards a Collision Help Unravel the Mysterious Forces That Bind Sub-Atomic Particles

The physics of massive nuclei can be studied by measuring the ‘note’ at which tidal resonance between merging neutron stars ...
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Physics Mystery Behind “Coffee Ring” Formation Uncovered

An international research team, led by Monash University, has discovered for the first time the mystery behind the formation of ...
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