The celestial phenomenon known as STEVE is likely caused by a combination of heating of charged particles in the atmosphere and energetic electrons like those that power the aurora, according …read more Source:: Science
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Researchers tap rare pristine air to reveal pollution’s impact
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•Human-caused pollution spurs the production of climate-changing particles known as secondary organic aerosols much more than previously thought. Researchers made the finding by analyzing air samples that were captured aboard …read more Source:: Science
Calculating temperature inside moon to help reveal its inner structure
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•Little is known about the inner structure of the Moon, but a major step forward was made by a scientist who conducted experiments that enabled her to determine the temperature …read more Source:: Science
Chimpanzees lose their behavioral and cultural diversity
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•Chimpanzees are well known for their extraordinary diversity of behaviors, with some behaviors also exhibiting cultural variation. An international research team has investigated whether chimpanzee behavioral diversity is reduced under …read more Source:: Science
HIV remission achieved in second patient
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•A second person has experienced sustained remission from HIV-1 after ceasing treatment, reports a new article. The case report comes ten years after the first such case, known as the …read more Source:: Science
Ingredients for water could be made on surface of moon, a chemical factory
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•When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens onto the moon’s surface at 450 kilometers per second (or nearly 1 million miles per hour), they enrich …read more Source:: Science
Quarrying of Stonehenge ‘bluestones’ dated to 3000 BC
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•Excavations at two quarries in Wales, known to be the source of the Stonehenge ‘bluestones’, provide new evidence of megalith quarrying 5,000 years ago. …read more Source:: Science
New disease surveillance tool helps detect any human-infecting virus
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•A new computational method called ‘CATCH’ designs molecular ‘baits’ for any virus known to infect humans and all their known strains, including those that are present in low abundance in …read more Source:: Science
Variations in seafloor create freak ocean waves
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•Researchers have found that abrupt variations in the seafloor can cause dangerous ocean waves known as rogue or freak waves — waves so catastrophic that they were once thought to …read more Source:: Science
To sleep, perchance to heal: Newly discovered gene governs need for slumber when sick
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•Humans spend nearly one-third of their lives in slumber, yet sleep is still one of biology’s most enduring mysteries. Little is known about what genetic or molecular forces drive the …read more Source:: Science