Condor telescope reveals a new world for astrophysicists

A view created by Condor and computer technologies of extremely faint shells of ionized gas surrounding the dwarf nova Z Camelopardalis. Credit: Condor Team A new telescope called the “Condor…

Powerful new tool ushers in new era of quantum materials research

INRS Professor Fabio Boschini and colleagues at QMI-UBC put TR-ARPES photoemission technique in the spotlight. Credit: Fabio Boschini (INRS) Research in quantum materials is paving the way for groundbreaking discoveries…

New method for early detection of relapse in the blood cancer disease myelodysplastic syndrome

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH), Magnus Tobiasson and Eva Hellström-Lindberg have, together with the Nordic MDS group, developed a method that makes it…

Britain vows to build new gas power stations

Britain’s Conservative government believes that additional gas power plants to avert a threat of energy blackouts. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government pledged Tuesday to build new gas-fired power stations…

Exploring exotic behaviors in population-imbalanced fermionic systems

Male mammals aren’t always bigger than females

The idea that male mammals tend to be larger than females has been scientific dogma since Darwin. Bigger bodies, the thinking goes, are better in the battle to win the…

Salty foods are making people sick − in part by poisoning their microbiomes

People have been using salt since the dawn of civilization to process, preserve and enhance foods. In ancient Rome, salt was so central to commerce that soldiers were paid their…

The realization of aqueous flow batteries with mild pH decoupling

COVID lowered life expectancy by 1.6 years worldwide: Study

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain COVID-19 caused the average life expectancy of people worldwide to fall by 1.6 years during the first two years of the pandemic, a more dramatic decline…

Functional Ecology’s Award for Early Career Researchers – Functional Ecologists

The Haldane Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Functional Ecology written by an early career author. With entries spanning the 37th volume of…