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Q&A: Looting of the Sudan National Museum—more is at stake than priceless ancient treasures

Reports continue to emerge of the alleged looting of tens of thousands of artifacts from the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgSep 10th, 2024

Experiment reveals how Earth"s magnetic field influences flow in planet"s core

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, in France, has demonstrated how Earth's magnetic field may be influencing internal flow, using what they descri.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

Novel AI framework incorporates experimental data and text-based narratives to accelerate search for new proteins

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and the world's fastest supercomputers, a research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has developed an innovative computing framework to speed up the desi.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

Ancient unicellular organism indicates embryonic development might have existed prior to animals" evolution

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before the appearance of the first animals......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

Scientists calculate predictions for meson measurements

Nuclear physics theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated that complex calculations run on supercomputers can accurately predict the distribution of electric charges in mesons, particles made.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

Climate change is contributing to drought in the American West even without rainfall deficits, scientists find

Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020–2022. A study by UCLA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate scientists ha.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

States’ Abortion Rights Wins May Be Short-Lived Under a Second Trump Term

More than two years after a historic Supreme Court decision ended the national right to an abortion, some states are fighting back—but the future of abortion rights remains in doubt......»»

Category: gadgetSource:  wiredRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

Public pressure found to influence whether companies reduce their environmental impact

The effectiveness of national voluntary programs asking companies to pledge to lower their pollution and greenhouse gas emissions depends on pressure from the public, according to a new study led by a Penn State researcher......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

Scientists use high-energy heavy ion collisions as a new tool to reveal subtleties of nuclear structure

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE's Brookhaven National La.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

How imposter syndrome and a lack of self-confidence can hold small businesses back

It might come as a surprise that most of the UK's income and employment is provided not by the big national or multinational companies we all recognize but by what are known as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 6th, 2024

NRO chief: “You can’t hide” from our new swarm of SpaceX-built spy satellites

"A satellite is always coming over an area within a given reasonable amount of time." The director of the National Reconnaissance Office has a message for US adversaries around th.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

RTO mandate was attempt at thwarting Grindr workers unionizing: US labor board

80 out of 120 workers trying to unionize reportedly quit due to RTO mandate. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is accusing Grindr of using a return-to-office (RTO) mandat.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

Burial chamber and grave goods of ancient Egyptian priestess discovered in Asyut

An international team of archaeologists led by Professor Jochem Kahl from Freie Universität Berlin has made an incredible discovery in the necropolis of Asyut, Egypt. Researchers discovered the burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian priestess Idy, d.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

The mechanics of ovulation: Study explains how muscle-like fibers help eggs squeeze out from follicle

Eggs pop out of ovaries. But what propels them has been unknown. Now, researchers from the University of Connecticut explain in an article published in the September 18 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that tiny, muscle-li.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

Australia needs a bold national bushfire strategy, researcher says

Australia's escalating bushfire crisis calls for an urgent, comprehensive national reset, according to a new report, "Pathways for Sustainable Coexistence with Wildfires.".....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

Reconstructing plesiosaur swimming styles with a bio-inspired control system

A research group may have unraveled the mystery behind the locomotion of the ancient marine reptile, the plesiosaur, by recreating a bio-inspired control system that accounts for motion adjustment......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

Study of Venus"s Haasttse-baad Tessera suggests formation by two large impacts

A trio of geologists and environmental scientists from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the University of Minnesota has found evidence suggesting that the Haasttse-baad Tessera formation on Venus was likely for.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

Spraying rice with zinc oxide nanoparticles protects yields during heat waves, study finds

A small team of horticulturists in China and the U.S. has found that spraying rice plants with a zinc oxide nanoparticle solution helps them better handle the stress of a heat wave. In their study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

Elon Musk has gone all in for Trump—here"s what"s at stake for the world"s richest man in the US election

Elon Musk is supporting Donald Trump in his quest to regain the American presidency. He has committed millions of dollars to a pro-Trump "political action committee" (PAC) and has appeared alongside Donald Trump at some of his rallies......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

Designs on ancient stone cylinders correspond to origin of writing in Mesopotamia, researchers discover

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a series of correlations between the designs engraved on t.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 5th, 2024

Portal to the past: Geologist identifies metamorphic rock as a crucial feature of the ancient Earth"s carbon cycle

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31. During the Proterozoic Eon—2.5 billion years to 543 million years ago—the sun was still a young star, much dimmer than today,.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsNov 4th, 2024