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Space & Cosmos
Nancy Grace Roma Space Telescope Key Parts Pass Thermal Vacuum Test
This photo captures the installation of NASA’s Nancy Gray Sloman Space Telescope’s test solar panels held in March. One panel is lifted up to the center of the frame, while being attached to the outer barrel assembly on the right. The cover of the deployable opening is housed in the front of the outer barrel assembly, with the other half…
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Nanotechnology
The first real-time visualization of nanofiber self-assembly reveals key steps in the formation of supramolecular gels
a) Generally accepted mechanisms. b) Mechanisms supported by this work. Credit: S. Kimura, K. Adachi, Y. Ishii, T. Komiyama, T. Tadasaki N. Nishiyama, H. Takayama, S. Imagine the materials that build themselves, and respond intelligently to the environment to deliver drugs exactly where they need them, regenerate scaffolds, and clean up contaminants. These are the promises of supramolecular gels of…
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Environment
Trump wants to stop climate research from key agencies: Report
NOAA performs functions ranging from climate research to hurricane tracking. The Trump administration pursues a deeply skeptical approach to climate change and wants to significantly cut back on research units in government agencies that play a pivotal role in global climate science. According to internal White House documents consulted by CNN, the administration will ask Congress, which sets federal agencies’…
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Physics
Cross-sectional area variation as a key factor for pressure wave attenuation in hilarious flows: a theoretical analysis.
Credit: International Journal by Multiphase Flow (2025). doi:10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2025.105138 Pressure waves propagating through the liquid containing bubbles in the tube experience considerable decay. Researchers at Tsukuba University have derived an equation explaining this phenomenon, showing that variations in the tube cross-sectional area contribute to wave attenuation, beyond the viscosity and compressibility of the liquid. Their analysis reveals that the rate of…
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Biology
Scientists uncover key mechanisms in evolution: Whole-genome overlap promotes long-term adaptation
We have evolved macroscopic “snowflake” yeast from multi-tee experiments. Large sizes of nuclei (yellow) and cell (cyan) are the result of whole genome overlap and aneuploidy. Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology Sometimes the most important scientific discoveries happen by chance. Scientists have long known that whole-genome overlap (WGD) (the process by which an organism copies all genetic material) plays an…
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Biology
Dendritic spines: the key to understanding how memory is linked in time
The overlapping dendritic segments encode memories of two contexts that were explored in time. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2025). doi:10.1038/s41593-025-01876-8 If you’ve ever noticed how memories of the same day are connected while events apart are feeling separate weeks, a new study will reveal why. This finding comes from a mouse study, and researchers observed memory formation using advanced imaging techniques,…
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Other Sciences
The power of the party is the key to dictators who maintain control amid corruption, research discovers
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst University provides new insight into why some dictatorial governments are attracting larger protests than others corruption, despite rampaging by some dictatorial governments. Published in the Journal Democratization, this study shows that ruling parties with deep institutional roots can effectively isolate rulers with absolute power from the destabilizing…
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Space & Cosmos
The release of type IA supernova data could hold the key to universe’s history
Long night exposure of the Samuel Osin Telescope Dome, opened at the Palomar Observatory in California. Credit: Palomar/Caltech The unique dataset of the IA supernova type released today could change the way cosmologists measure the expansion history of the universe. Dr. Mathew Smith and Dr. Georgios Dimitriadis of Lancaster University are both members of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a…
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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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Nanotechnology
Dropping a fluid micro fluid may hold the key to next -generation cancer drugs.
Credit: Danielle Benavides/Texas A & M Engineering At the Texas A & M University, one researcherabo has changed the fluid Micro Fuled game. This is a method that includes experimenting with nanoscale drops of liquid in a controlled environment. The team has developed a system faster, less cost, and more accurate with Liquid Micro Full Idix. Dr. Almhan and his…
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