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Space & Cosmos
Scientists investigate the mystery of the missing delta of Titan
This composite image shows an infrared view of the Titan of Saturn’s moon in the NASA Cassini spacecraft, obtained on the mission’s “T-114” flyby on November 13, 2015. Credit: NASA For scientists looking to learn about the planet’s geological history, the Delta River is a great place to start. Deltas gather sediment from a large area into one location. This…
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Physics
Scientists release plans for even bigger atomic smashers to address the mystery of physics
Mike Lamont, director of accelerators and technology on the left of the centre, and Mike Lamont, director of Fabiola Giannotti (CERN), on the right of the centre at the European Institute for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the US House of Representatives facility at the US Large Magnet Facility during a visit to the CERN facility in Meilin,…
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Biology
Protein folding mystery solution: research explains core packing fractions
Credit: PRX Life (2025). doi:10.1103/prxlife.3.013018 In organisms, all proteins (a type of biological polymer composed of hundreds of amino acids) remove certain functions such as catalysts, molecular transport, and DNA repair. To perform these functions, you must fold it into a specific shape. This is an important and complicated process in life, and despite advances in this field, many unanswered…
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Science
Space for advanced radio telescope technology “Sifts” mystery
Wajari’s artist, Judith Anal, has drawn a fast radio burst to celebrate CSIRO’s ASKAP RADIO telescope in the Wajari country as part of a series entrusted by CSIRO. Credit: Judith Anari, Craft, 2019 In the first technology developed by Australia, a mysterious object was detected by sifting signals from the beach sand, such as the sand of the beach. CSIRO…
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Biology
World’s first research reveals the mystery of marsupial moles living in the desert
Credit: Photo Mike Gillum, from Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado4140 Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature is gliding across the sand. This isn’t one of the giant worms of Arrakis from Frank Herbert’s science fiction epic Dune. Rather, it’s a marsupial mole, a mysterious small mammal found only in the Australian desert. There are two closely related species of…
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Biology
Geneticists finally solve the mystery behind Garfield’s orange coat
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Garfield, the star of Jim Davis’ 1978 cartoon of the same name, is orange, like many of the cats that roam our homes. He’s orange, just as some people are red-haired, some horses are brown, and some dogs are Irish Setters, but with one important difference. The cause of this distinctive coloration is known for all…
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Science
Citizen scientist data helps unravel the mystery of low-latitude blue auroras
It was one of two photos of blue-dominated auroras analyzed in this study. Credit: Takuya Usami On May 11, 2024, colorful aurora borealis appeared over the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan, triggered by an intense geomagnetic storm. Auroras observed at low latitudes usually appear red due to the emission of oxygen atoms. However, on this day, a salmon-pink…
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Physics
Kinetic Alfvén waves may be the key to the mystery of solar coronal heating
Geometry of obliquely propagating Alfvén waves. This schematic diagram shows the fitted geometry of a KAW in a circular cross-section solar flux tube loop of height h and radius a. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-77975-6 Saeed Ayaz, a researcher at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), published a paper in Scientific Reports based on a first-of-its-kind study examining…
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Biology
Scientists discover that Pacific southern killer whales have access to enough food, deepening the mystery of their struggle
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Two marine mammal scientists from the University of British Columbia have discovered that the claim that a lack of access to salmon is the cause of the plummeting population of killer whales in the southern Pacific Ocean is false. In a paper published on the open access site PLOS ONE, Burak Saigiri and Andrew Treitz discuss…
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Physics
New CMS results solve mystery of W boson mass
The Compact Muon Solenoid Detector is located 100 metres underground at CERN on the French-Swiss border and collects data from the Large Hadron Collider. The detector has been operational since 2010 and is part of one of the largest international scientific collaborations in history, studying the fundamental laws of nature. Credit: Brice, Maximilien: CERN Following an unexpected measurement at Fermi…
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