Thursday, March 20, 2025

Science

Hydrogen

A cost-effective catalyst to revolutionize hydrogen production

A low-cost palladium-based nanosheet
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Human Eye

Our breathing affects our vision

Breathing shapes what we see.
A woman kneels in a quiet cemetery placing flowers at a gravestone

Loneliness after losing a spouse, study

Persistent Loneliness After Spousal Loss, Despite Social Support
jupiter-citsci

A long-standing Jupiter’s cloud mystery solved

A misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter’s clouds resolved.
dendritic spines

Using light to precisely control cold receptors

LMU researchers have developed a molecule that allows an important ion channel to be regulated.

New tool to analyze embodied carbon in more than 1 million...

First ever visual analysis tool
early agn

Early universe had more supermassive black holes than previously thought

Most distant and therefore oldest blazar ever seen.
worm C. elegans

How electrical synapses fine-tune sensory information for better decisions?

A configuration of electrical synapses.
Prochlorococcus

Prochlorococcus’ cross-feeding at night affects the ocean’s carbon cycle

It feeds a global network of marine microbes.
Researchers found carnivore and herbivore tracks crossing over which raises questions about whether and how the two were interacting.

A huge ‘dinosaur highway’ found

UK’s biggest Dinosaur footprints discovered.
Women exercising with hula hoop circle

Scientists explain the physics of hula hooping

Hourglass body shape is ideal for hula hooping
neutron star emitting a radio beam

MIT astronomers pinpointed the origins of a fast radio burst

It likely emerged from the turbulent magnetosphere.
3d representation of dna

Ancient DNA unveils migration patterns from the first millennium

Analysing ancestry with ancient DNA.
medicine calender

Are text message reminders effective for medication refills?

One of the largest and most diverse of its kind.
ants in group

Why ants outperform humans in teamwork?

Ants vs. humans.
Abstract freezelight curves on black background

A heterojunction-gated field-effect transistor 

Breakthrough in short-wave infrared detection.
parker solar probe

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe makes closest ever pass by the sun

Record Breaking!
Artistic representation of the distribution of trans-Neptunian objects

New molecular details on trans-Neptunian objects

Best glimpse ever into the icy planetesimals.
Astronomers have found evidence of magnetic fields associated with a disc of gas and dust a few hundred light-years across deep inside a system of two merging galaxies known as Arp220 (pictured). NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScl/AURA), ESA, Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

The missing ingredient for cooking up stars found

Like Christmas puds!
Car speedometer in the human brain

Caltech researchers have quantified the speed of human thought

Thinking Slowly?
history of the Universe

Dark energy ‘doesn’t exist’

Challenging the theory of an expanding universe.
Close-up of virus or bacteria cells

New software unlocks secrets of cell signaling

SMART!
Artist's impression of what the Moon looked like

Moon’s remelting: A wrinkle to mystery of Moon’s true age

The moon underwent a ‘remelting’ 4.35 billion years ago.
massive black hole

A massive black hole caught sleeping after meal

A much-needed nap.
NGC 346

NASA’s Webb proved a controversial finding made with the Hubble

Conundrum solved!
Martian Wonderland

NASA’s Curiosity trekked around the northern end of Texoli Butte

Stunning views of Mars’ ancient landscapes.
NGC 602

NASA missions spot cosmic ‘Wreath’ displaying stellar circle of life

Cosmic Wreaths and Christmas tree clusters
Circadian clock

The role of the circadian system in inflammatory bowel diseases

Unlocking the clock!

The twin dynamic: Developmental differences and lasting dominance

Twin relationships!

World’s oldest mammalian ancestor discovered

Gorgonopsians are an extinct group of synapsids.