Researchers have completed an unprecedented ‘dissection’ of twin galaxies in the final stages of merging. The new study explores a galaxy called NGC 6240. While most galaxies in the universe …read more Source:: Science
Month: April 2018
Martian moons model indicates formation following large impact
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•Scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth-moon …read more Source:: Science
Global warming is transforming the Great Barrier Reef
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•A new study shows that corals on the northern Great Barrier Reef experienced a catastrophic die-off following the extended marine heatwave of 2016. …read more Source:: Science
Can we tell black holes apart?
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•Astrophysicists have created and compared self-consistent and realistic images of the shadow of an accreting supermassive black hole. The goal was to test if Einsteinian black holes can be distinguished …read more Source:: Science
Elevation in buildings can affect the decisions we make
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•New research shows that elevation in an office building can increase someone’s willingness to take financial risks because it makes people feel more powerful. …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft releases its first Linux product
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•For the first time, Microsoft has released its own Linux kernel in a new Linux-based product: Azure Sphere. …read more Source:: Linux
Scientists decipher the magma bodies under Yellowstone
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•Using supercomputer modeling, scientists have unveiled a new explanation for the geology underlying recent seismic imaging of magma bodies below Yellowstone National Park. …read more Source:: Science
First an alga, then a squid, enigmatic fossil is actually a fish
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•A fossil slab discovered in Kansas 70 years ago and twice misidentified — first as a green alga and then as a cephalopod — has been reinterpreted as the preserved …read more Source:: Science
A new Bose-Einstein condensate
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•Researchers have created a Bose-Einstein condensate of light coupled with metal electrons, so-called surface plasmon polaritons. …read more Source:: Science
We think we’re the first advanced earthlings — but how do we really know?
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•Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile-high buildings. A preposterous idea, right? In a compelling thought experiment, scientists wonder how we would truly …read more Source:: Science