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Mannequins flew around the moon on a path astronauts could soon take. Scientists just revealed how they fared

Mannequins flew around the moon on a path astronauts could soon take. Scientists just revealed how they fared.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  yahooSep 19th, 2024

Isotope analysis reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Americans

Scientists have uncovered the first direct evidence that ancient Americans relied primarily on mammoth and other large animals for food. Their research sheds new light on both the rapid expansion of humans throughout the Americas and the extinction o.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Archaeological remains in Alaska show humans and dogs bonded 12,000 years ago

"Dog is man's best friend" may be an ancient cliché, but when that friendship began is a longstanding question among scientists. A study led by a University of Arizona researcher is one step closer to an answer to how Indigenous people in the Americ.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Scientists streamline creation of nucleoside analogs, a group of life-saving molecules

A team of researchers has found a quicker and more efficient way to create nucleoside analogs, a type of small molecule that can be used in treatments for everything from cancer to viral diseases......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

New synthetic receptor expands cellular control options, including immune response and neurological signaling

A basic function of cells is that they act in response to their environments. It makes sense, then, that a goal of scientists is to control that process, making cells respond how they want to what they want......»»

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How widespread is mercenary spyware?

A targeted hunt on 2,500 mobile devices for indicators of compromise associated with mercenary spyware has revealed that its use is not as rare as one would hope. The results of the hunt Earlier this year, iVerify added a threat hunting feature to it.....»»

Category: securitySource:  netsecurityRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Personal AI assistants could help astronauts on long missions

How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronauts on long-term space missions? This is what a recent study presented at the 2024 International Astronautical Congress in Milan, Italy, hopes to address......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Ocean density identified as a key driver of carbon capture by marine plankton

New findings, published in Royal Society Open Science, have revealed that changes in ocean density have a significant impact on the rate at which marine plankton incorporate carbon into their shells. This has profound implications for carbon cycling.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Coastal retreat in Alaska is accelerating because of compound climate impacts, researchers warn

The overlapping effects of sea level rise, permafrost thaw subsidence, and erosion may lead to land loss in Arctic coastal regions that dwarfs the land loss from any single one of these climate hazards, scientists say......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Study finds soil microbes affect flowers" ability to attract bees

New research reveals that certain soil microbes can help plants grow bigger flowers, therefore attracting more bees. The findings, which are published in New Phytologist, suggest that studying roots' relationships with microbes can help scientists pr.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Excavations uncover evidence for the emergence and rejection of the earliest state institutions in Iraq

Excavations at a 4th millennium BCE settlement in Iraqi Kurdistan have revealed new clues about the origins of the world's earliest governing institutions, suggesting they emerged partly from their ability to provide large-scale meals, potentially as.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Excavations reveal that Roman maritime villa at Sant Gregori specialized in viticulture

Excavations at the Sant Gregori site in Burriana have revealed that this maritime villa specialized in viticulture. The research team, coordinated by the Mediterranean Archeology Partnership Programme at the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló (UJI), in.....»»

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Tiny dancers: Scientists synchronize bacterial motion

Researchers at TU Delft have discovered that E. coli bacteria can synchronize their movements, creating order in seemingly random biological systems. By trapping individual bacteria in micro-engineered circular cavities and coupling these cavities th.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Publication outlines steps for building astronomy databases

Data access, or the availability of new and archival data for use by other scientists and the public, is key to scientific advancement. How data is presented, searched, and formatted determines accessibility, and it can be difficult to find a solutio.....»»

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X-ray vision: Seeing through the mystery of an X-ray emissions mechanism

Since the 1960s, scientists who study X-rays, lightning and similar phenomena have observed something curious: In lab experiments replicating these occurrences, electrons accelerated between two electrodes can be of a higher energy than the voltage a.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Poplar tree study discovers a photosynthesis gene that boosts plant height

A team of scientists have identified a gene in poplar trees that enhances photosynthesis and can boost tree height. The study, "An orphan gene BOOSTER enhances photosynthetic efficiency and plant productivity," is published in Developmental Cell, and.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Chemical structure"s carbon capture ability doubled by new research

Oregon State University scientists have found a way to more than double the uptake ability of a chemical structure that can be used for scrubbing carbon dioxide from factory flues......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Scientists uncover new mollusk species co-habiting with an anemone in the North Atlantic abyss

A new species of tusk shell, a burrowing marine mollusk, has been discovered in deep, North Atlantic waters by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research. The newly discovered mollusk lives in the aby.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Multimodal machine learning model increases accuracy of catalyst screening

Identifying optimal catalyst materials for specific reactions is crucial to advance energy storage technologies and sustainable chemical processes. To screen catalysts, scientists must understand systems' adsorption energy, something that machine lea.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

New map shows where koalas are at most risk

A first-of-its-kind map created by a team of scientists at the University of Sydney shows that the genetic diversity of koala populations is in decline across Australia, putting the iconic marsupial at increased risk of extinction......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Planetary scientists confirm new main-belt comet

A mysterious object discovered in the main asteroid belt in 2021 was determined to be a main-belt comet by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Henry Hsieh, Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Audrey Thirouin of Lowell.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024