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Science
Scientists discover dynamic microbial life in coastal sediments
David Emerson, a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory, collects samples from Edgecomb Eddy on the Main Coast. Credit: Fritz Freudenberger, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Bigelow Laboratory Scientists advances stimulating methods for linking the activities of individual microorganisms to their own genetic codes, offering the first application of an approach to sediment. Their findings were recently published in the…
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Nanotechnology
Interface Flexibility: Scientists Discover Key Mechanisms Drive the Formation of Molecular Networks
A diagram of the mechanism of interface flexibility in DNA network PBL EPFL. Credit: PBL EPFL Covalent bonds are a widely understood phenomenon in which atoms of a molecule are joined by covalent electron pairs. But essentially, molecular patterns can also be connected via weaker, more dynamic forces that produce supramolecular networks. These can self-assemble from early molecular clusters or…
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Earth
Changes in vegetation and humidity enhance wildfires than supercomputer simulations discover
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The recent extreme fire seasons underscore the urgent need to better understand wildfires within the broader context of climate change. Under climate change, many wildfire drivers are expected to change, including vegetation, rainfall and the amount of carbon stored in lightning. Previous climate computer model simulations do not capture the perfect coupling between the corresponding shifts…
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Earth
Climber helps scientists discover nanoplastics on remote glacier
Full team: Dr. Al Gill (expedition leader), Robin Milner (technical lead), Tom Baldassari (primary medic), Richard Kay (lead climber and secondary medic), James Sisti (expedition artist). Credit: Zoe Salt (Expedition Photographer) Imagine a glacier. Thinking about ‘sparkling snow’ or ‘plastic pollution’? New research highlights the pervasive nature of plastic pollution, even in remote and seemingly pristine areas like this. In…
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Earth
Climate researchers discover that clouds have a surprising effect on surface warming
DLR decomposition changes in SGP. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08323-x Researchers at McGill University have found that changes in clouds are slightly mitigating global warming. While temperatures continue to rise due to greenhouse gases, the amount of heat trapped near the surface has slightly decreased due to less low-lying cloud cover over land. “We started this study to observationally test…
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Space & Cosmos
NASA hopes to discover the moon with next-generation retroreflector
The Next Generation Lunar Retroreflector (NGLR-1) is one of 10 payloads scheduled to be installed on the next shipment of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative in 2025. Equipped with retroreflectors, NGLR-1 will be delivered to the Moon. A surface that reflects very short laser pulses from the Lunar Laser Ranging Observatory on Earth. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Apollo astronauts…
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Other Sciences
Seeing the ‘big picture’: researchers discover storytelling could be the key to a meaningful life
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain One study found a direct link between storytelling ability and a sense of meaning and quality of life. The study, conducted in Israel and the United States, found that people who were good storytellers lived more fulfilling lives, had a clearer sense of purpose, and had the ability to see the “big picture.” Researchers assessed participants’…
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Space & Cosmos
Astronomers discover supermassive Grand Design spiral galaxy
Morphology and photometric redshift of Zhúlóng. Credit: Xiao et al., 2024. An international team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect a new grand design spiral galaxy as part of a panoramic survey. The newly discovered galaxy, named Zhúlóng, is so massive that it appears to be the most distant spiral galaxy yet identified. The findings…
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Environment
Researchers discover the role of absorbent aerosols in winter fog formation
(A) Average BC and POA concentration profiles with error shadows in FBASE and (B) temperature by AARI as a function of near-surface (PM2.5) in NCP from December 5 to March 6, 2015. Vertical distribution of changes 2016. The dashed line in B represents the PBLH of FBASE. The red line with error bars shows the vertical profile of daytime BC…
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Nanotechnology
Tiny particles, huge potential: Scientists discover new type of quasiparticle present in all magnetic materials
Quasiparticle-mediated dynamics in AFM and FM honeycomb lattices of contracted nanoscale elements. Credit: Physical Review Research (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.043144 Researchers recently made a breakthrough discovery at the nanoscale. It is a new type of quasiparticle that is present in all magnetic materials, regardless of strength or temperature. These new properties challenge what researchers previously knew about magnetism and show that…
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