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An international team of scientists around Tanja Stratmann from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, and Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and Daniëlle de Jonge from Heriot-Watt...
Global Warming
Climate change could mean fewer sunny days for hot regions banking on solar power
Princeton-based researchers recently published in the journal Nature Communications the first study to assess the day-to-day reliability of solar energy under climate change. The team used satellite data and climate...
Droughts are threatening global wetlands
Published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, the scientists highlight the many physical and chemical changes occurring during droughts that lead to severe, and sometimes irreversible, drying of wetland soils...
Space & Time
A New Look at Sunspots
In a new study, scientists looked at sunspots — darkened patches on the Sun caused by its magnetic field — at low resolution as if they were trillions of miles away. What resulted was a simulated view of...
Spitzer Space Telescope Legacy
To understand the significance of the Spitzer Space Telescope on the understanding of our solar system, think of what the steam engine meant for the industrial revolution. A national team of scientists today published...
Magnetars and Rotation-Powered Pulsars
For the current study, work done by Chin-Ping Hu, a visiting researcher at the Extreme Natural Phenomena RIKEN Hakubi Research Team in the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and colleagues, has revealed a missing...
Nanotechnology
Nano-Carrier Delivers Medications to Cells
The human body is made up of billions of cells. In the case of cancer, the genome of several of these cells is changed pathologically so that the cells divide in an uncontrolled manner. The cause of virus infections is...
Nano-Thermometers for Many Applications
NIST researchers are in the early stages of a massive undertaking to design and build a fleet of tiny ultra-sensitive thermometers. If they succeed, their system will be the first to make real-time measurements of...
Killing Cancer Cells Without Using Drugs
The researchers created their ‘Trojan horse’ nanoparticle by coating it with a specific amino acid — L-phenylalanine — that cancer cells rely on, along with other similar amino acids, to survive...
Archaeology
When good governments go bad
All good things must come to an end. Whether ruthless dictators or more well-meaning representatives rule societies, they fall apart in time, with different degrees of severity. In a new paper, anthropologists examined...
Wild birds as offerings to the Egyptian Gods
Mammals, reptiles, birds: the tens of millions of animal mummies deposited as offerings in the necropolises of the Nile Valley bear witness to an intense religious fervour, and to the practices of collecting and...
