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Scientists reveal new clues into how Earth got its oxygen
For much of Earth's four and a half billion years, the planet was barren and inhospitable; it wasn't until the world acquired its blanket...
Study offers more complete view of massive asteroid Psyche
A new study authored by Southwest Research Insti-tute planetary scientist Dr. Tracy Becker discusses several new views of the asteroid 16 Psyche, including the...
Record neutron numbers at Sandia Labs’ Z machine fusion experiments
A relatively new method to control nuclear fusion that combines a massive jolt of electricity with strong magnetic fields and a powerful laser beam...
Coronaviruses are masters of mimicry, new study finds
Coronaviruses are adept at imitating human immune proteins that have been implicated in severe COVID-19 disease, a study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos...
Juno data indicates ‘sprites’ or ‘elves’ frolic in Jupiter’s atmosphere
New results from NASA's Juno mission at Jupiter suggest that either "sprites" or "elves" could be dancing in the upper atmosphere of the solar...
Antarctica yields oldest fossils of giant birds with 6.4-meter wingspans
Fossils recovered from Antarctica in the 1980s represent the oldest giant members of an extinct group of birds that patrolled the southern oceans with...
Ice loss due to warming leads to warming due to ice loss: A vicious...
The 0.2 degrees C rise is substantial, given that global mean temperature is currently about one degree higher than in pre-industrial times, and governments worldwide have...
The Grantecan finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of...
An international team of astronomers has identified one of the rarest known classes of gamma-ray emitting galaxies, called BL Lacertae, within the first 2...
60-year-old limit to lasers overturned by quantum researchers
A team of Australian quantum theorists has shown how to break a bound that had been believed, for 60 years, to fundamentally limit the...
Vampire bats social distance when they get sick
A new paper in Behavioral Ecology, published by Oxford University Press, finds that wild vampire bats that are sick spend less time near others from...
New catalyst turns greenhouse gases into hydrogen gas
A new nanocatalyst that recycles major greenhouse gasses, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), into highly value-added hydrogen (H2) gas has been...
