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Astronomers Spot Unusual, Enormous Rings Around a Black Hole

Chandra X-ray Center -
V404 Cygni Rings (Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Wisc-Madison/S. Heinz et al.; Optical/IR: Pan-STARRS) Astronomers spotted an unusual set of rings in X-rays around a black hole with a companion star. These rings are created by light echoes, a...
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Scientists Surprised: Fighting Off Food Poisoning Depends on the Time of Day

UT Southwestern Medical Center -
Scanning electron micrograph shows segmented filamentous bacteria attaching to the intestinal surface of a mouse. More bacteria attach during the night than during the day. Credit: John F. Brooks II Levels of natural antimicrobial molecule...
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Optical Innovation Key to Unprecedented Accuracy in Beam Control of High-Power Lasers

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory -
Berkeley Lab doctoral student Fumika Isono (center), BELLA Center Deputy Director Jeroen van Tilborg (right), and research scientist Sam Barber set up a novel laser stabilization experiment at one of the BELLA Center’s 100-TW-class...
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Geologists Discover That NASA Rover Has Been Exploring Surface Sediments, Not Ancient Lake Deposits

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An image taken by the Curiosity Rover MastCam instrument shows layered sedimentary rocks composing Mount Sharp. The rover has been driving from the floor of Gale crater up through the rocks within these hills...
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New Research Shows Decline in CO2 Cooled Earth’s Climate Over 30 Million Years Ago

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Tree stump in lignite deposits. Credit: Vittoria Lauretano New research led by the University of Bristol demonstrates that a decline in the concentration of atmospheric CO2 played a major role in driving Earth’s climate from...
America

How a Sudden Stratospheric Warming Event Over Antarctica Affected the Northern Hemisphere

Nancy Wolfe Kotary, MIT Haystack Observatory -
Ionospheric anomalies observed on Sept. 15, 2019, over North America. Anomalies are shown for TEC (total electron content) and expressed as percentage compared to the average values for this season. A 50-80 percent increase...
America

How Organisms Have Evolved To Address Imbalances in Sex Chromosomes

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The species of turtle involved in the study is Apalone spinifera, a species of freshwater turtles native to North America. But the researchers say their findings shed light on the evolutionary role of sex...
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New Research Finds Children With Autism Have a Distinctive Gut Microbiome

BMJ -
Significantly fewer gut bugs linked to neurotransmitter activity. Children with autism seem to have a distinctive and underdeveloped range and volume of gut bacteria (microbiome) that isn’t related to their diet, suggests a small study...
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Solving the Plastic Shortage With an Efficient New Chemical Catalyst

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In a year that has already battered manufacturing supply chains, yet another shortage is complicating manufacturers’ and consumers’ lives: plastics, and the food packaging, automotive components, clothing, medical and lab equipment and countless other...
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NASA’s Fermi Spots a Weird Pulse of High-Energy Radiation Racing Toward Earth

Francis Reddy, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center -
When the core of massive star collapses, it can form a black hole. Some of the surrounding matter escapes in the form of powerful jets that rush outward at almost the speed of light...
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Discovery of 10 Faces of Plasma: New Insights in Fusion and Plasma Science

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory -
Physicists Hong Qin, left, and Yichen Fu, with rendering of 10 phases of plasma from their Nature Communications paper. Credit: Photos and collage by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications Scientists have discovered a novel way to...
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Butterflies Cross the Vast Sahara Desert in Longest-Known Insect Migration

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A Painted Lady butterfly in Morocco. Credit: Orio Massana Weather conditions shown to have big influence on migration numbers. A species of butterfly found in Sub-Saharan Africa is able to migrate thousands of miles to Europe,...
America

Exceptionally Preserved Fossil Sheds Light on the Evolution of How Dinosaurs Breathed

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Life reconstruction of Heterodontosaurus vocalizing on a cool Jurassic morning. Credit: Viktor Radermacher Using an exceptionally preserved fossil from South Africa, a particle accelerator, and high-powered x-rays, an international team including a University of Minnesota...
America

Lung Cancer Resistance: The Key Is Glucose Metabolism

EPFL -
Histological staining of a lung adenocarcinoma, which is made of tumor cells as well as cells of the immune microenvironment including tumor-associated neutrophils. Credit: Caroline Contat (EPFL) Cancers are not only made of tumor cells....
America

New Index Ranks Rainforests’ Vulnerability to Climate and Human Impacts

Jet Propulsion Laboratory -
A rainforest in Malaysia. Credit: Wikimedia Common A new index shows that the world’s rainforests are responding differently to threats like a warming climate and deforestation. Scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and...
America

Researchers Investigate Newly Introduced Butterfly That Could Become Widespread in Canada

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Male and female Polyommatus icarus mating. Credit: Stephanie A. Rivest This summer, if you see a butterfly with wings that are blue on top with orange spots underneath, you may have crossed paths with a...
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Dynamic Control of THz Wavefronts by Rotating Layers of Cascaded Metasurfaces

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A metadevice for dynamically controlling THz wavefronts by rotating layers of cascaded metasurfaces. Credit: Shanghai University Cascaded metasurfaces for dynamic control of THz wavefronts Electromagnetic (EM) waves in the terahertz (THz) regime contribute to important applications...
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Scientists Uncover New Opportunities for Light-Powered Battery and Fuel Cell Design

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Researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, et al. induced substantial motion of oxide ions within perovskite crystals by using pulses of ultraviolet light. Such motion provides...
America

Vitamin E, CoQ10 and GSH Supplements Reverse Heart Damage Caused by Cancer in Scientific Study

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Vitamin E supplements, as well as the antioxidants CoQ10 and GSH, reversed heart damage in fruit flies caused by a tumor. Study Links Free Radicals to Heart Damage Caused by Cancer In fruit flies, antioxidants reverse...
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Red vs. Blue: Astronomers Nail Down the Origins of Rare Loner Dwarf Galaxies

Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
In this image, the fall of a blue ultra-diffuse galaxy into a galaxy system and its subsequent ejection as a red ultra-diffuse galaxy, is depicted. Credit: MIT The results provide a blueprint for finding such...
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Optical Observations of BepiColombo Spacecraft as a Proxy for a Potential Threatening Asteroid

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An artist’s impression of the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab BepiColombo is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) designed to study the planet Mercury....
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Spectacular Ice Age Landscapes Beneath the North Sea Revealed by 3D Seismic “MRI” Scans

British Antarctic Survey -
Close up image of an esker (a sedimentary cast of a meltwater channel formed beneath an ice sheet), discovered within a tunnel valley using the new 3D seismic reflection data. Credit: James Kirkham Spectacular ice...
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Increasing the Efficiency of Chemical Reactions To Help Decarbonize Fuels and Chemicals

David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
This diagram illustrates the new process for enhancing reaction rates in an electrocatalytic process. The catalyst layer, made of gold or platinum, is shown as gray spheres at the bottom, and the material to...
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Earth’s Interior Is Swallowing Up More Carbon Than Thought – Locking It Away at Depth

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Credit: NASA Scientists from Cambridge University and NTU Singapore have found that slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates drag more carbon into Earth’s interior than previously thought. They found that the carbon drawn into Earth’s interior at...
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New Treatment Repairs Heart Tissue

The Endocrine Society -
Mouse study finds molecule repairs heart tissue to avoid damage. A study in mice finds treatment with a molecule called MCB-613 repairs heart tissue after a severe heart attack, preventing damage that can lead to...
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