New model calculations shows impact of star’s brightness and magnetic activity

Stars with low magnetic field strength exhibit a more pronounced limb darkening than those with a strong magnetic field. This affects the shape of the light curve. Credit: MPS /…

Amazon CEO touts AI in annual shareholder letter

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In his annual letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy went back to 2003. Quoting from a “Vision document” that year for Amazon Web Services—the company’s…

Nitazenes found in 5 overdose deaths in Philly – here’s what they are and why they’re so deadly

The Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office found that nitazenes, a synthetic opioid up to 40 times more powerful than fentanyl, were connected to at least five overdose deaths in Philadelphia in…

In a first, these crab spiders appear to collaborate, creating camouflage

Some crab spiders have ditched webs for flowers. Masters of disguise, female Thomisus guangxicus spiders blend in with petals, which allows the arachnids to nab insects that pass by while…

Chemical reactions can scramble quantum information as well as black holes

If you threw a message in a bottle into a black hole, all of the information in it would become completely scrambled down to the quantum level. Because this scrambling…

Science-Based Targets’ emissions rules don’t reflect the reality

The Science Based Targets initiative ignores the good a company’s products do in avoiding planet-heating emissions – only counting those from its operations Chris Hocknell is the director of London-based…

Can normothermic regional perfusion increase the number of patients receiving lung transplants?

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Re-perfusing the lungs of an organ donor with a technique called normothermic regional perfusion (TA-NRP) after the heart has irreversibly stopped beating could potentially increase the…

Are we facing an ‘Insect Apocalypse’ caused by ‘intensive, industrial’ farming and agricultural chemicals? The media say yes; Science says ‘no’

Two key brain systems are central to psychosis, study finds

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Inside the brains of people with psychosis, two key systems are malfunctioning: a “filter” that directs attention toward important external events and internal thoughts, and a…

Bronze fitting depicting Alexander the Great found on Danish Island

Archaeologists have discovered a bronze fitting depicting Alexander the Great on the Danish island of Zealand. The discovery was made by Finn Ibsen and Lars Danielsen, two amateur archaeologists who…