This artist’s concept by citizen scientist William Pendrill shows, at left, a cool brown dwarf called a T Dwarf, and, at right, a warmer brown dwarf passing in front of a distant star. Pendrill, also an illustrator, participates in Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, which uses NASA data to look for brown dwarfs and other objects. … Read more
CMS event display of a candidate Higgs boson decaying into two photons, one of the two decay channels that were key to the discovery of the particle. Credit: CERN As part of its continued commitment to making its science fully open, the CMS collaboration has just publicly released the combination of CMS measurements that contributed … Read more
A new technique, called advanced dual-chirped optical parametric amplification, has increased the energy of single-cycle laser pulses by a factor of 50. The technique uses two crystals (shown as clear cubes), which amplify complementary regions of the spectrum. Credit: RIKEN Extremely short pulses of laser light with a peak power of 6 terawatts (6 trillion … Read more
Propagating spiral waves in a bacterial film ~2 mm in diameter. The color map represents the phase angle distribution of the wave pattern. Credit: Dr. Shiqi Liu A new study by researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong has reported the emergence of mechanical spiral waves in bacterial matter. Spiral waves are commonly seen … Read more
Lars Hultman, professor of thin film physics and Shun Kashiwaya, researcher at the Materials Design Division at Linköping University. Credit: Olov Planthaber For the first time, scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick. The material has been termed goldene. According to researchers from Linköping University, Sweden, this has … Read more
The CHM covering the ABBY site. The canopy heights are represented by color palette from red to green. The blue circles represent the locations of GEDI samples over multi-layer forests. Credit: Journal of Remote Sensing (2024). DOI: 10.34133/remotesensing.0132 A team of researchers has unveiled a novel approach to accurately characterizing tree height composition in forests … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nations battling for Olympic success in a global sporting ‘arms race’ has led to elite coaches migrating to Western countries as they bid to escape antiquated and restrictive coaching regimes in their home countries, reveals a new study. National teams pursuing Olympic gold medals are increasingly recruiting foreign elite coaches from … Read more
Potamophylax kosovaensis. Credit: Ibrahimi et al. Over the last few years, Professor Halil Ibrahimi from Kosovo and his team have described several new species of aquatic insects recognized as bioindicators of freshwater ecosystems. The work is published in the Biodiversity Data Journal. However, the celebration of these discoveries is tempered by alarming concerns: the newfound … Read more
The specimen from which the high-coverage blue antelope nuclear genome was extracted: a young male from the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Source: Hempel et al. 2021. Identifying the true number of specimens of the extinct blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus). Credit: Swedish Museum of Natural History The blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) was an African antelope … Read more
Credit: National Science Foundation Glittering threads of stars around the Milky Way may hold answers to one of our biggest questions about the universe: what is dark matter? With images taken through six different color filters mounted to the largest camera ever built for astronomy and astrophysics, Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s upcoming Legacy Survey of … Read more
