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First image of a multi-planet system around a sun-like star
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, sun-like star accompanied by two giant...
Earliest humans stayed at the Americas ‘oldest hotel’ in Mexican cave
A cave in a remote part of Mexico was visited by humans around 30,000 years ago—15,000 years earlier than people were previously thought to...
New material can generate hydrogen from salt and polluted water
Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with teams from the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague and Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad...
Physicists find ways to control gamma radiation
of Sciences) found ways to direct high frequency gamma radiation by means of acoustics.
Their paper describes an optical 'switch'—a device able to let through...
New cosmic magnetic field structures discovered in galaxy NGC 4217
Spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way can have sprawling magnetic fields. There are various theories about their formation, but so far the process...
Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system 800 million years ago revealed by lunar craters
A research team led by Osaka University investigated the formation ages of 59 lunar craters with a diameter of approximately 20 km using the...
Unparalleled inventory of the human gut ecosystem
An international team of scientists has collated all known bacterial genomes from the human gut microbiome into a single large database, allowing researchers to...
More flowers and pollinator diversity could help protect bees from parasites
Having more flowers and maintaining diverse bee communities could help reduce the spread of bee parasites, according to a new study.
The research, conducted on...
‘Lost’ world’s rediscovery is step toward finding habitable planets
The rediscovery of a lost planet could pave the way for the detection of a world within the habitable "Goldilocks zone" in a distant...
Homes of wealthy Americans have carbon footprints 25% higher than lower-income residences
The homes of wealthy Americans generate about 25% more greenhouse gases than residences in lower-income neighborhoods, mainly due to their larger size. In the...
Diamonds shine a light on hidden currents in graphene
It sounds like pure sorcery: using diamonds to observe invisible power swirling and flowing through carefully crafted channels. But these diamonds are a reality....
