New research suggests most of Earth’s heavy metals were spewed from a largely overlooked kind of star explosion called a collapsar. …read more Source:: Science
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What a never-before-seen radioactive decay could tell us about neutrinos
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•In a new set of results, chemists have laid the foundation for a single-atom illumination strategy called barium tagging. Their achievement is the first known imaging of single atoms in …read more Source:: Science
A warming world increases air pollution
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•The new study shows that the contrast in warming between the continents and sea, called the land-sea warming contrast, drives an increased concentration of aerosols in the atmosphere that cause …read more Source:: Science
The orderly chaos of black holes
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•During the formation of a black hole a bright burst of very energetic light in the form of gamma-rays is produced, these events are called gamma-ray bursts. Researchers have built …read more Source:: Science
Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth 40%
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•Most crops on the planet are plagued by a photosynthetic glitch, and to deal with it, evolved an energy-expensive process called photorespiration that drastically suppresses their yield potential. Researchers reportthat …read more Source:: Science
Earth at risk of heading towards ‘hothouse Earth’ state
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•An international team of scientists is showing that even if the carbon emission reductions called for in the Paris Agreement are met, there is a risk of Earth entering what …read more Source:: Science
Memory-processing unit could bring memristors to the masses
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•A new way of arranging advanced computer components called memristors on a chip could enable them to be used for general computing, which could cut energy consumption by a factor …read more Source:: Science
Gault site research pushes back date of earliest North Americans
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•Archaeological evidence has increasingly called into question the idea of ‘Clovis First.’ Now, a study has dated a significant assemblage of stone artifacts to 16-20,000 years of age, pushing back …read more Source:: Science
Generating electrical power from waste heat
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•Researchers have developed a tiny silicon-based device that can harness what was previously called waste heat and turn it into DC power. …read more Source:: Science
Existence of new form of electronic matter
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•Researchers have produced a ‘human scale’ demonstration of a new phase of matter called quadrupole topological insulators that was recently predicted using theoretical physics. These are the first experimental findings …read more Source:: Science