Illustration of a quark core in a neutron star. Credit: Jyrki Hokkanen, CSC – IT Center for Science Atoms are made of three things: protons, neutrons, and electrons. Electrons are a type of fundamental particle, but protons and neutrons are composite particles made of up and down quarks. Protons have 2 ups and 1 down, … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In Australia, dog ownership often goes hand-in-hand with a love for the great outdoors. Whether it’s walking on the beach, going camping, or having a barbecue in the park, we tend to keep our canine companions close as we soak up the sun. But many of us forget a key fact … Read more
A photograph captured by John Murillo of the rare gynandromorphic Green Honeycreeper. On the right side of its body, the bird flaunted the typical blue plumage and black head of the male Green Honeycreeper. On the left, it was a beautiful grass green. According to experts, the specimen spotted in Colombia was a rare example … 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
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
