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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Underwater dump sites off the Los Angeles coast contain World War II-era munitions including anti-submarine weapons and smoke devices, marine researchers announced Friday. A survey of the known offshore sites in April managed to identify munitions by using high-definition video that covered a limited portion of the sites, the Scripps Institution … Read more

MIT engineers have designed diagnostic particles that can be aerosolized and inhaled. At bottom is a scanning electron micrograph of the particles, which are coated with nanosensors that interact with cancer-associated proteins in the lungs. Credit: MIT researchers Using a new technology developed at MIT, diagnosing lung cancer could become as easy as inhaling nanoparticle … Read more

A herd of elephants in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Credit: Prof. Rudi van Aarde Conservation measures have successfully stopped declines in the African savanna elephant population across southern Africa, but the pattern varies locally, according to a new study. The evidence suggests that the long-term solution to elephant survival requires not only that areas are … Read more

Margaux Lopez in front of Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope. Credit: Margaux Lopez When she’s in Chile, Margaux Lopez starts most days nine thousand feet below her place of work. At 6:30 a.m. she boards a bus to begin the steep climb from La Serena, Chile’s second-oldest city, to the top of Cerro … Read more

Network structure of psychological reactions during an extreme ritual. Overall network structure based on Extended Bayesian Information Criterion Gaussian Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (EBICglasso; Foygel & Drton, Citation2010) network analysis and bootstrapped Exploratory Graph Analysis (EGA) (Epskamp & Fried, Citation2018) using a walktrap algorithm (Yang et al., Citation2016) with 1,000 bootstrap samples. Node … Read more

Crack propagation angles of oblique cracks at (a) tape center and (b) tape edge. Both cracks had an initial angle of 60. The crack propagations deflected from the initial crack angles. Credit: hirong Yang, Yi Li, Peng Song, Mingzhi Guan, Feng Feng, Timing Qu. In the realm of superconductivity, the durability and efficiency of materials … Read more

Graphic depiction of Add-on to large-scale water mining operations on Mars to screen for introduced and alien life. Credit: Steven Benner As noted at NASA’s 2019 Carlsbad Conference, we have good reason to think that life could have started on Mars using the same geo-organic chemistry that started life on Earth. If Martian life persists … Read more

In 2022 the US Northeast was battered by what authorities called the ‘blizzard of the century’ Forecasters warned on Friday that a deluge of snow and wintery conditions could bring travel chaos to the US northeast this weekend, with some 25 million people subject to a storm warning. Several cities in the eastern United States … Read more

This image released by NASA shows Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander being encapsulated in the payload fairing, or nose cone, of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Final preparations were underway Friday for the launch of the first American spacecraft to attempt a lunar landing in more than 50 years, under a new partnership between NASA and … Read more

Burnt trees are seen after illegal fires were lit by farmers in Manaquiri, Amazonas state in September 2023. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by half last year, according to figures released Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government bolstered environmental policing to crack down on surging destruction. However, the news was far … Read more