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Can music Promote Plant Growth? A Study Suggests Sound may Boost Beneficial Fungi Activity

Credit: Pixabay A study released on Wednesday found that playing a monotonous sound enhances the activity of a fungus that supports plant growth, suggesting that music could potentially benefit crops and gardens. The question of whether playing Mozart could enhance plant growth has been debated for a long time. The US TV show "MythBusters" even tested...

Lab Discovery Presents New Challenge in the Search for Alien Life

Credit: Pixabay The most probable method for detecting life on a distant exoplanet is by identifying a biosignature. This involves analyzing the atmospheric spectra of the planet to find the distinctive spectral pattern of a molecule that can only be produced through biological activity. Although it seems straightforward, detecting life on exoplanets is far from simple....

Scientists Employ AI to Forecast the Movement of Wildfires

Credit: Pixabay Researchers at USC have created a new technique for accurately predicting the spread of wildfires. By integrating satellite imagery with artificial intelligence, their model represents a significant advancement in wildfire management and emergency response. Described in a preliminary study published in Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems, the USC model uses satellite data...

Scientists Found a New use for Leftover Coffee Grounds

Credit: Pixabay Our fondness for coffee results in millions of tons of discarded coffee grounds annually. Scientists have been exploring methods to utilize them, and we now have another addition to the list: research demonstrates that old coffee grounds can absorb bentazone, an agricultural herbicide. If the technology can be advanced, it would address two environmental...

Self-Fueling Synthetic Protein Motor “Mows”

'The Lawnmower' represents a groundbreaking achievement as the inaugural synthetic molecular motor capable of self-propulsion, deriving energy from its action of cutting through proteins, which are artificially generated by AI through DALL-E. The body uses tiny machines made of proteins to do important jobs. These machines help with things like cell division and moving around...

James Webb Telescope Discovers Water Vapor, Sulfur Dioxide, and Sand Clouds on Nearby Exoplanet

Credit: BGR A team of European astronomers, including researchers from KU Leuven's Institute of Astronomy, utilized the James Webb Space Telescope for recent observations on the atmosphere of the nearby exoplanet WASP-107b. Peering deep into its cloudy atmosphere, they identified water vapor, sulfur dioxide, and even silicate sand clouds. These elements exist within a dynamic...

Giant Mantle Plume Reveals Mars is More Active Than Previously Thought

Planet Mars illustration . Credit: © revers_jr / stock.adobe.com On Earth, shifting tectonic plates reshuffle the planet's surface and make for a dynamic interior, so the lack of such processes on Mars led several to think of it as a dead planet where not much occurred in the past 3 billion years. In the present problem...

Dimethyl Ether Was Discovered in a Planet-forming Disc for the First Time

In a first for astrochemistry, astronomers have discovered dimethyl ether in a planet-forming disc. A precursor of larger organic molecules that can spur life, dimethyl ether is the largest molecule identified yet in a protoplanetary disc-- a rotating cloud of gas, dust, and ice that develops around a recently developing star and ultimately forms...

Graphene is a Nobel Prize-winning “wonder material”

Will graphene (shown) be replaced by graphyne? Credit: Forance / Adobe Stock Graphene is a "wonder material" entirely made of carbon atoms with tremendous potential in the semiconductor industry. A related molecule referred to as graphyne might be even better. Graphyne, however, is challenging to create. Now, chemists have found a way to produce it...

An Improved Way to Develop Compounds For Pharmaceuticals

Testing of new pharmaceutical products. Credit: Freepik. What do gunpowder, penicillin, and Teflon all share? They were innovations that took the globe by storm, but they were all developed by pure accident. In a new research study announced in the journal Science, researchers used electrical power to establish equipment that can make it less complicated...