This incredible image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula was taken to mark the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 29th anniversary in space. The nebula, created by a binary star system, …read more Source:: Science
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Harvesting renewable energy from the sun and outer space at the same time
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•Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that heat from the sun and coldness from outer space can be collected simultaneously with a single device. Their research suggests that devices …read more Source:: Science
Did key building blocks for life come from deep space?
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•All living beings need cells and energy to replicate. Without these fundamental building blocks, living organisms could not exist. Little was known about a key element in the building blocks, …read more Source:: Science
Unraveling the nature of ‘whistlers’ from space in the lab
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•Scientists have presented research on a curious cosmic phenomenon known as ‘whistlers’ — very low frequency packets of radio waves that race along magnetic field lines. The study provides new …read more Source:: Science
Researchers confine mature cells to turn them into stem cells
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•Recent research has revealed that mature cells can be reprogrammed into re-deployable stem cells without direct genetic modification — by confining them to a defined geometric space for an extended …read more Source:: Science
Chemical sleuthing unravels possible path to forming life’s building blocks in space
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•Scientists have used experiments to retrace the chemical steps leading to the creation of complex hydrocarbons in space. They showed pathways to forming 2-D carbon-based nanostructures in a mix of …read more Source:: Science
Super-resolution microscopy in both space and time
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•In a breakthrough for biological imaging, scientists have developed the first microscope platform that can perform super-resolution spatial and temporal imaging, capturing unprecedented views inside living cells. …read more Source:: Science
Pigeons can discriminate both space, time
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•Pigeons aren’t so bird-brained after all. New research shows that pigeons can discriminate the abstract concepts of space and time, likely using a different region of the brain than humans …read more Source:: Science
ALMA and Rosetta detect Freon-40 in space
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•Observations made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESA’s Rosetta mission, have revealed the presence of the organohalogen Freon-40 in gas around both an infant star and a …read more Source:: Science
Revolutions in understanding the ionosphere, Earth’s interface to space
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•Far above Earth’s surface is a sea of particles that have been split into positive and negative ions by the suns harsh ultraviolet radiation called the ionosphere — this is …read more Source:: Science