Astronomers have discovered that a distant star called RZ Picseum in the constellation Pisces is crushing one or more planets into its orbit into a vast cloud of gas and …read more Source:: Science
Day: December 21, 2017
An integrated assessment of vascular plants species of the Americas
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•Botanists have compiled a comprehensive, searchable checklist of 124,993 species, 6,227 genera and 355 families of vascular plants of the Americas. This represents one third of all known vascular plants …read more Source:: Science
The origin of water’s unusual properties found
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•Using x-ray lasers, researchers have been able to map out how water fluctuates between two different states when it is cooled. At -44°C these fluctuations reach a maximum pointing to …read more Source:: Science
Discovery of a 4,000-year-old military network in northern Syria
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•The discovery of more than a thousand sites in Syria has revised our understanding of the settlement of the steppes during all periods in the history of the Near East. …read more Source:: Science
A particle like slow light
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•Weyl particles are not particles which can move on their own (like electrons or protons), they only exist as ‘quasiparticles’ within a solid material. Now, for the first time, such …read more Source:: Science