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Telescopes in space for even sharper images of black holes
Astronomers have just managed to take the first image of a black hole, and now the next challenge facing them is how to take...
Twisting whirlpools of electrons
In Jules Verne's famous classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the iconic submarine Nautilus disappears into the Moskenstraumen, a massive whirlpool off the coast of...
Could this rare supernova resolve a longstanding origin debate?
Detection of a supernova with an unusual chemical signature by a team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Juna Kollmeier—and including Carnegie's Nidia Morrell, Anthony...
Radical desalination approach may disrupt the water industry
Hypersaline brines—water that contains high concentrations of dissolved salts and whose saline levels are higher than ocean water—are a growing environmental concern around the...
Ancient ritual bundle contained multiple psychotropic plants
A thousand years ago, Native Americans in South America used multiple psychotropic plants—possibly simultaneously—to induce hallucinations and altered consciousness, according to an international team...
Experimental device generates electricity from the coldness of the universe
The obvious drawback of solar panels is that they require sunlight to generate electricity. Some have observed that for a device on Earth facing...
Banana disease boosted by climate change
Climate change has raised the risk of a fungal disease that ravages banana crops, new research shows.
Black Sigatoka disease emerged from Asia in the...
Secrets of the ‘blue supergiant’ revealed
Blue supergiants are the rock-and-roll stars of the universe. They are massive stars that live fast and die young which makes them rare and...
Impossible research produces 400-year El Nino record, revealing startling changes
Melbourne: Australian scientists have developed an innovative method using cores drilled from coral to produce a world first 400-year long seasonal record of El...
Study reveals how social relationships transform bird flocks
Flocks of birds may appear to move with a single mind, but new research shows jackdaws stick with their mates—even though it harms the...
Oxygen linked with the boom and bust of early animal evolution
Extreme fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen levels corresponded with evolutionary surges and extinctions in animal biodiversity during the Cambrian explosion, finds new study led by...
