Notices tagged with science, page 20

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the dramatic dance between a supermassive black hole-powered quasar and merging galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang. Live Science tells us how the observations could help scientists better understand how galaxies and supermassive black holes grew in the early universe. https://flip.it/Xlvd8Y
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The world’s first carbon capture-and-storage project sits 200 kilometers off Norway’s coast in the North Sea. It stores around 1 million metric tons of CO2 per year and is hailed as a success in cutting greenhouse gases emissions. But critics don’t see the technology, in its current form, shifting the world away from oil and gas. Writing for Knowable Magazine, Natasha Gilbert explains: https://flip.it/Fo-H2O
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Astronomers discover Earth’s closest black hole.

@popsci reports: "Omega Centauri contains an intermediate-mass black hole about 18,000 light years away."

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Here's the original study from Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07511-z

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Animals use physics? Let us count the ways.

From @KnowableMag: "Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how."

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#Animals #Physics #Science #Cats #Snakes

Lions' record-breaking swim across channel captured by drone camera.

@newscientist reports: "Two lions, one missing a leg, made a 1.5-kilometre swim through crocodile-infested waters in Uganda, probably in order to mate with females."

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#Lions #Animals #Science #BigCats

#PPOD: Enjoy one of the greatest images ever taken by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, from very early in her exploration of Yellowknife Bay at Gale Crater. The rover is now far away from this location, conquering the summit of Mount Sharp. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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"Astronomers have homed in on a world they believe might have just the right conditions for a thick atmosphere and an ocean half the size of the Atlantic."

@Mashable reports: "The exoplanet — a world orbiting a star other than the sun — is LHS 1140 b, and it's about 48 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Cetus."

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Three animals that can detect disease in humans.

From @TheConversationUS: "Many species of animals – from the microscopic worm C elegans, to ants, mice and dogs – have all successfully demonstrated the ability to detect diseases in people and from biological samples during experiments."

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#Animals #Disease #Health #Science #Dogs

Scientists say they have identified a root cause of lupus — one that could pave the way for new treatments.

NBC News reports: "An imbalance of T cells, which play a key role in the body’s immune response, could explain most cases of the disease, according to new research."

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#Lupus #Disease #Medicine #Health #Science

Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist Nikola Tesla was born #OTD in 1856.

Some of Tesla´s inventions and innovations: alternating Current (AC) system; induction motor; Tesla coil; wireless transmission of electricity; radio technology; remote control; neon and fluorescent lighting; X-Ray technology; Tesla turbine; oscillators and frequency generators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Books by Nikola Tesla at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067

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Four volunteers, 378 days: NASA completes first mission simulating astronaut life on Mars.

NBC News reports: "Kelly Haston, Ross Brockwell, Anca Selariu and Nathan Jones spent more than a year living in a 3D-printed habitat called the Mars Dune Alpha."

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#NASA #Mars #Space #Astronaut #Science

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that the Jupiter-sized planet HD 189733 b, one of the closest “hot Jupiter” planets to Earth, stinks like rotten eggs. If you guessed sulfur was somehow involved, you were right. Read more from Space.com: https://flip.it/7vU_SM
#Science #Space #Earth #JWST

One of the most detailed studies yet has cemented the link between autism and the microbiome in the gut, a development could provide new ways of detecting and understanding the neurological disorder. "What is exciting about this study is that it opens up the possibility of investigating specific biochemical pathways and their impact on different autistic features," says neuroscientist Bhismadev Chakrabarti of the University of Reading in the UK, who was not associated with the research. ScienceAlert has more: https://flip.it/tiXh9D
#Science #Health #Brain #Autism #Disabilities

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A cancer treatment's success hinges on its capacity to damage cancer cells enough to kill them or stop them from growing. However, some cancer cells can change their molecular makeup to either mitigate or cancel out the therapy's effect. It’s no easy task. But scientists have developed a way to turn tumor cells against their neighbors, forcing the cancer to cooperate with treatment. Live Science explains: https://flip.it/ijB6_9
#Science #Health #Cancer #Disease #Human #Medicine

The first generation of stars formed in a more innocent time, before the Universe became littered with dust and dirt and adulterated with heavy elements. The James Webb Space Telescope is helping us understand some of the secrets of the Universe’s formation, when the cosmos was simple and clean, and, as a result, star formation was much, much more difficult. Read more from Science Focus: https://flip.it/L86jNC
#Science #Space #JWST #SpaceExploration

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What will the climate be like where you live in the future? More than half of our planet is predicted to shift into new climate zones by the end of the century. A new interactive map shows how your home will be impacted. ScienceAlert explains: https://flip.it/J9RCs7
#Science #ClimateChange #Weather #Future

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Astronauts and cosmonauts have continuously occupied the International Space Station since 2000, creating a floating laboratory for scientific experimentation and more. But someday it will have to be destroyed. Science Focus tells us how NASA intends to do it: https://flip.it/BrsFtX
#Science #Space #ISS #NASA

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One of North America’s largest ice fields is melting out and could soon reach a tipping point, new research concludes. Like many Alaskan glaciers, the Juneau Icefield is top-heavy, with lots of ice and snow at high altitudes. As temperatures rise, more snow and ice gets exposed to sunshine and higher temperatures, a troubling pattern across the globe. Read more from Ars Technica: https://flip.it/4GzKMi
#Science #ClimateChange #Glaciers #GlobalWarming

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, with as many as 150 of its 400 active volcanoes erupting at any given time. ScienceAlert tells us more about what a glorious hot mess Io is. https://flip.it/__TwSn
#Science #Space #Jupiter #SolarSystem #SpaceExploration

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning image of a very young object in the process of becoming a star. The telescope used its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) to zoom in on the 100,000-year-old protostar named L1527 that gives us a spectacular display. “As the star's gravitational power draws material nearer, the material is compressed and heats up. More energy comes from shockwaves generated by incoming material that collides with existing gas,” Evan Gough writes. Read more from ScienceAlert: https://flip.it/DyDLrJ
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