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NASA missions help investigate an ‘Old Faithful’ active galaxy
During a typical year, over a million people visit Yellowstone National Park, where the Old Faithful geyser regularly blasts a jet of boiling water...
New Horizons spacecraft answers the question: How dark is space?
How dark is the sky, and what does that tell us about the number of galaxies in the visible universe? Astronomers can estimate the...
Non-classical photosynthesis by earth’s inorganic semiconducting minerals
Photosynthesis, the process by which plants and other organisms convert sunlight into chemical energy, has been a major player during the evolution of life...
Gene-editing produces tenfold increase in superbug slaying antibiotics
Scientists have used gene-editing advances to achieve a tenfold increase in the production of super-bug targeting formicamycin antibiotics.
The John Innes Centre researchers used the...
Most distant quasar discovered sheds light on how black holes grow
A team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona has observed a luminous quasar 13.03 billion light-years from Earth—the most distant quasar discovered...
Fossils’ soft tissues helping to solve puzzle that vexed Darwin
Remarkably well-preserved fossils are helping scientists unravel a mystery about the origins of early animals that puzzled Charles Darwin.
Analysis of the 547 million-year-old remains...
Scientists investigate phages that can kill the world’s leading superbug, Acinetobacter baumannii
A major risk of being hospitalised is catching a bacterial infection.
Hospitals, especially areas including intensive care units and surgical wards, are teeming with bacteria,...
New proposed multifunctional nanomaterial could enhance solar energy, quantum computing
An atypical two-dimensional sandwich has the tasty part on the outside for scientists and engineers developing multifunctional nanodevices.
An atom-thin layer of semiconductor antimony paired...
Researchers build artificial chromosome
Biotechnologists at Delft University of Technology have built an artificial chromosome in yeast. The chromosome can exist alongside natural yeast chromosomes, and serves as...
Scientists discover bizarre new mode of snake locomotion
A team of researchers from Colorado State University and the University of Cincinnati have discovered a new mode of snake locomotion that allows the...
Energy from solar wind favors the north
Using information from ESA's Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have made a discovery about how energy generated by electrically-charged particles in the solar wind flows...
