Nighttime long exposure of the open Samuel Oschin Telescope dome at Palomar Observatory in California. Credit: Palomar/Caltech A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how…
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Asteroid Ryugu samples suggest presence of salty water in outer solar system
Colorized microscopic image of sodium carbonate deposit on Ryugu sample. Credit: KyotoU/Toru Matsumoto Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote…
Leaf phenology may be physiologically regulated by carbon sink-source dynamics & non-structural carbohydrates – Functional Ecologists
In this post Yunpeng Luo, an ecologist at The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape WSL, shares insights from his recent work “Internal physiological drivers of leaf development…
Valentine’s Day gets costlier as hotter temperatures hit cocoa
New research shows that hotter temperatures and erratic rainfall are pressuring cocoa production in West African countries that supply around 70% of the main ingredient for chocolate, quadrupling the price…
Mini flow battery speeds energy storage research
A new mini flow cell battery (right) is designed to speed the testing of promising new flow battery technologies. Credit: Ruozhu Feng | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Sometimes, in order…
How a mushroom coral goes for a walk without legs
A coral walks into a (sand) bar. This may sound like a joke. But new time-lapse photography shows new details of how a squishy, loner coral polyp without legs manages…
Star-shaped brain cells may form specialized networks for reward learning
Left: Astrocyte ensemble labeling using AstroLight. Using this tool, the authors obtained a spatial map of the astrocyte ensemble in the nucleus accumbens involved in a cue-motivated behavioral task. Right:…
DRC’s huge Green Corridor project lacks buy-in from forest communities
A massive new protected area in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – equal to the size of France – has so far failed to include Indigenous people and local…
