American news By means of Patrick Reilly Published June 12, 2024, 10:59 PM ET Scientists around the world are eagerly awaiting a cosmic nova event that NASA says will add a “new star” to the night sky sometime between now and September. The spectacle will be so bright that it will be visible to the … Read more
“For hybrid seed of the next generation productionthe use of male sterile lines with small grains to mechanically separate small hybrid seeds from the mixed crop is promising,” they said. The challenge was to find a gene that can cause a rice line to have a small grain size without reducing the number of seeds … Read more
The intensity map and geographical location of the 2023 Turkey earthquake. A black star indicates the epicenter of the earthquake (https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes). Credit: Journal for Applied Geodesy (2024). DOI: 10.1515/jag-2024-0024 Earthquakes may reveal their impending presence much earlier than previously thought due to a variety of anomalies in the ground, atmosphere and ionosphere that can be … Read more
Detecting anomalous wavefronts in fluorescence microscopy. Credit: Optics (2024). DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.518559 A team led by researchers at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus has adapted a class of techniques used in astronomy to defocus images of distant galaxies for use in the life sciences, giving biologists a faster and cheaper way to get clearer and sharper images. … Read more
Garnet washed up as pink sand on a beach in the Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park. Credit: University of Adelaide Deposits of deep pink sand washing up on the coast of South Australia shed new light on when the Australian tectonic plate began to subduct beneath the Pacific plate, as well as on the presence of … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public domain About 2.5 billion years ago, free oxygen, or O2first began accumulating to meaningful levels in Earth’s atmosphere, paving the way for the emergence of complex life on our evolving planet. Scientists call this phenomenon the Great Oxidation Event, or GOE for short. But the initial accumulation of O2 on Earth was … Read more
Listen here on your chosen podcast platform. As the likes of Elon Musk continue to promote their grand plans to one day send humans to Mars, new research suggests that the way human organs respond to being in space could throw a spanner in the works. A team of researchers led by University College London … Read more
Marmalade hoverfly. Credit: Will Hawkes More than 17 million insects migrate every year through a single mountain pass on the border between France and Spain, new research shows. Scientists from the University of Exeter have studied migrating insects in the Pass of Bujaruelo, a 30-metre gap between two high peaks in the Pyrenees. Their article, … Read more
Some of the spiral galaxies studied by the researchers in the study. Credit: Vicki Kuhn Scientists at the University of Missouri are peering into the past and discovering new clues about the early universe. Because light takes a long time to travel through space, they can now see what galaxies looked like billions of years … Read more
This diagram shows how a catalyst consisting of a few layers of iridium oxide (IrOX) over a titanium nitride (TiN) carrier can efficiently store oxygen (O2), hydrogen ions (H+), and electrons (e.g–) from water molecules (H2O) in an acidic electrolyte. This ‘oxygen evolution reaction’ is the more challenging of the two reactions required to split … Read more