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New Insulation Material Enables More Efficient Electricity Distribution

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The basis of the new material is polyethylene, which is already used for insulation in existing HVDC cables. Now, by adding very small amounts – 5 parts per million – of the conjugated polymer...
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Under the Northern Lights: Mesospheric Ozone Layer Depletion Phenomenon

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In geospace, the Arase satellite observes chorus waves and energetic electrons, while on the ground, EISCAT and optical instruments observe pulsating aurorae and electron precipitation in the mesosphere. Credit: The ERG science team The same...
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Groups of Laypeople Reliably Rate Stories As Effectively as Fact-Checkers

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Crowds Can Wise Up To Fake News Experiment with Facebook-flagged content shows groups of laypeople reliably rate stories as effectively as fact-checkers do. In the face of grave concerns about misinformation, social media networks and news...
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Astronomers Use “X-Ray Magnifying Glass” To Enhance View of Distant Black Holes

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Astronomers have used gravitational lensing to obtain an unprecedented look at a black hole system in the early Universe. An artist’s illustration shows how the X-ray light from one of the objects on the...
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Mice Can Actually Learn Much Faster than Previously Thought

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A new experimental setup for studying animal behavior and learning. Your commute to work may seem like a mundane thing, but it is a great example of the complicated tasks our brains must carry out...
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Extensive Chains of Volcanoes Provides Safety Valve for Earth’s Long-Term Climate

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Fiery river in Kamchatka, Russia. Extensive chains of volcanoes have been responsible for both emitting and then removing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), stabilizing temperatures at Earth’s surface. An international research team explored the combined impact of...
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Reconstructing Extinct Rhinos: Geneticists Map the Rhinoceros Family Tree

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This illustration shows a paleoartist’s reconstruction of the three extinct rhinoceros species whose genomes were sequenced as part of the study. In the foreground is a Siberian unicorn (Elasmotherium sibiricum), and close behind are...
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The Sun’s “Convective Conundrum” Solved? Scientists Inch Closer to Cracking Mysteries of Space Weather

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New research from University of Colorado at Boulder, could help scientists better understand the phenomena behind ‘sunspots’. The sun has long intrigued scientists. However, this sphere of super-heated plasma—the closest star to Earth—is also notoriously...
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A Big Step Forward in the Search for Alien Life: New Class of Exoplanet Very Different to Our Own

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A new class of exoplanet very different to our own, but which could support life, has been identified by astronomers, which could greatly accelerate the...
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Closing a 25-Million Year Gap Between the “Molecular Clock” and the Fossil Record of Plants

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Early Land Plants Evolved From Freshwater Algae, Fossils Reveal The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a new report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look...
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What Goes Up Must Come Down: Helping Clean Up Space Junk With First-of-Its-Kind Mission Optimizer

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Illustration of ClearSpace-1, a planned active debris removal mission. Credit: ClearSpace SA Less than a year on from the UK Space Agency committing £1 million in funding to combat space debris, Fujitsu UK has successfully...
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Up to 3 Cups of Coffee per Day Associated With Health Benefits

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Up to three cups of coffee per day is associated with a lower risk of stroke and fatal heart disease, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2021.1,2 “To our knowledge, this is the largest...
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Hidden SARS-CoV-2 “Gate” Discovered – Opens To Allow COVID Infection

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The glycan gate opens: Supercomputing-driven simulations depict the glycan N343 (magenta) acting as a molecular crowbar to pry open the SARS-CoV-2 spike’s receptor binding domain, or RBD (cyan), from a “down” to an “up”...
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Jupiter’s Gigantic Super Polar Cyclones Are Here To Stay

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Pentagon of vortices. Mosaic of infrared images of Jupiter’s south pole. Credit: NASA/SWRI/JPL/ASI/INAF/IAPS Weizmann Institute scientists reveal how gigantic cyclones remain stable at both of Jupiter’s poles. Until recently, before NASA’s Juno space probe entered its...
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Chemistry Breakthrough: Faster and Cheaper Ethanol-to-Jet-Fuel on the Horizon

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New catalyst and microchannel reactors improve efficiency and cost. A patented process for converting alcohol sourced from renewable or industrial waste gases into jet or diesel fuel is being scaled up at the U.S. Department...
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Highest-Resolution Measurements of Asteroid Surface Temperatures Ever Obtained From Earth

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The study’s target, Psyche, is the destination of an upcoming NASA mission. A close examination of the millimeter-wavelength emissions from the asteroid Psyche, which NASA intends to visit in 2026, has produced the first temperature...
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Scientists Detect Tens of Thousands of Different Molecules in Beer – 80% Not Yet Described in Chemical Databases

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Study used modern high resolution analytics to reveal enormous metabolic complexity of beer. The tradition of beer brewing dates back to at least 7000 BCE and maybe even to the invention of agriculture, considering that...
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“Great Unconformity” Puzzle: Geologists Dig Into Grand Canyon’s Mysterious Gap in Time

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A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder reveals the complex history behind one of the Grand Canyon’s most well-known geologic features: A mysterious and missing gap of time in the canyon’s...
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Substantial Water Reservoir on Mars? Earthly Rocks Point Way To Water Hidden on the Red Planet

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Hydrohematite (right) is a brighter red than anhydrous hematite (left). Credit: Si Athena Chen, Penn State A combination of a once-debunked 19th-century identification of a water-carrying iron mineral and the fact that these rocks are...
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New Sun Clock Resolves Fast Changes Between the Solar Seasons

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New solar cycle clock resolves timings of solar activity, revealing the long and the short of the Sun’s seasons. Research led by University of Warwick suggests the switching between seasons can be fast. The declining phase...
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Extra 267,000 Infant Deaths in 2020 as a Result of COVID-19 Economic Downturn

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Figures correspond to nearly 7% more than expected, show World Bank economist estimates. An extra 267,000 infants will likely have died in 2020 in low and middle income countries as a result of the economic...
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Solved: Mysterious Solar Paradox That Puzzled Physicists for 25 Years

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Image of the solar atmosphere showing a coronal mass ejection. Credit: NASA/SDO In 1998, the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that the mysterious polarization signal that had been recently discovered in the light...
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Strong Evidence That Beijing’s Policies Meet the Criteria for Genocide of the Uyghur People

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Uyghur population policies could lead to 4.5 million lives lost by 2040, according to study. A new study out today provides the most compelling evidence to-date that China is deliberately reducing its population of Uyghurs...
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Ripples in Saturn’s Rings Reveals “Fuzzy” Nature of Gas Giant’s Core

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An illustration of Saturn and its “fuzzy” core. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Saturn Makes Waves in its Own Rings In the same way that earthquakes cause our planet to rumble, oscillations in the interior of Saturn...
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Philippine Negrito People Have the Highest Level of Ancient Denisovan DNA in the World

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Researchers have known from several lines of evidence that the ancient hominins known as the Denisovans interbred with modern humans in the distant past. Now researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on August 12,...
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