Black holes with varying light signatures but that were thought to be the same objects being viewed from different angles are actually in different stages of the life cycle, according to a study led by Dartmouth researchers. The research on black holes known as “active galactic nuclei,” or AGNs, says that it definitively shows the …
Heinrich Events or, more accurately, Heinrich Layers, are recurrent conspicuous sediment layers, usually ten to 15 centimeters thick, with very coarse rock components that interrupt the otherwise fine-grained oceanic deposits in the North Atlantic. Discovered and first described in the 1980s by the geologist Hartmut Heinrich, US geochemist Wally Broecker later officially named them Heinrich …
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Tridymite is a high-temperature, low-pressure form of quartz that is extremely rare on Earth, and it wasn’t clear how a chunk of it ended up in Gale Crater on Mars, the home of NASA’s Curiosity rover. (a) Location of the Buckskin mudstone sample (red star) in Gale Crater, Mars; (b and c) Images from the …
NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Researchers found that shadowed areas of a pit (pictured above) in the Mare Tranquillitatis region stay consistently cool during the day and night. The pit likely leads to a similarly temperate lava cave. Key takeaways: Unhospitable. Temperatures on the moon’s surface swing wildly between boiling hot and freezing cold. Humans on the …
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Black holes with varying light signatures but that were thought to be the same objects being viewed from different angles are actually in different stages of the life cycle, according to a study led by Dartmouth researchers. The research on black holes known as “active galactic nuclei,” or AGNs, says that it definitively shows the …
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New video footage captured by Berkeley Lab scientists reveals for the first time that nanoparticle growth is directed not by difference in size, but by defects. (Credit: Haimei Zheng/Berkeley Lab. Courtesy of Nature Communications.) For decades, a textbook process known as “Ostwald ripening,” named for the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Wilhelm Ostwald, has guided the design …
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The University of Cincinnati is making a significant commitment of funds and resources to establish the latest innovation in microscopy as the focal point of the Center for Advanced Structural Biology in the College of Medicine. The project will be built out in three phases over the next five years. WVXU covered the story by …
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Trilobites — extinct marine arthropods that roamed the world’s oceans from about 520 million years ago until they went extinct 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period — may have grown in a similar fashion and reached ages that match those of extant crustaceans, a new study has found. In a …
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Researchers in Japan have added impurities to layered perovskite ceramics which enhances their near-infrared light reflectivity making them ideally suited to heat mitigation. Layered perovskites like titanium-added calcium manganese oxide ceramics have attracted attention as materials that can prevent solar heat absorption by reflecting near-infrared (NIR) radiation better than commercial pigments. However, the mechanism underlying …
For machines with mechanical elements, friction is an unavoidable enemy. It is a major source of service failure and can reduce the lifespan of any machinery, from bicycles and cars to airplanes and assembly lines. New research led by the University of Pittsburgh unveils the atomic-scale friction of a single tungsten asperity, or rough edge, …
