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Russia Confirms Rescue of Stranded Cosmonauts With a Replacement Mission

Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft carrying the crew of Russian cosmonauts launched September, 2022. (NataliaKolesnikova/ AFP) Russia stated Wednesday that it will send an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) coming month to bring home 3 astronauts whose planned return vehicle was damaged by a strike from a small meteoroid. The Russian space company, Roscosmos, made the...

New Outcomes Reveal Surprising Behavior of Minerals Deep in the Earth

Boudinage in brecciated dolostone rocks of the Panamint Range (Wildrose Area, Death Valley National Park). New research shows that periclase is stronger than bridgmanite in the earth's lower mantle, analogous to boudins developing in rigid ("stronger") rocks among less competent ("weaker") rocks. Credit: Jennifer M. Jackson, Caltech As you are reading this, more than 400...

New Study Reveals a Wide Diversity of Galaxies in the Early Universe

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New information from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed that the structures of galaxies in the early universe were much more diverse and also mature than previously known. Researchers recently compared photos of hundreds of galaxies taken by JWST for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey with...

Scientists Developed a Totally New Manner to Cool Things

Salute to ionocaloric cooling: a new manner to lower the mercury that can substitute existing methods with something more secure and friendlier to the earth. Common refrigeration systems transport warmth far from an area through a gas that cools as it propagates some distance away. As efficient as this method is, some of the choice...

There’s One Thing Dogs do Not Utilize Their Tail For, Scientists Say

Tails can be found in several shapes, strengths, and dimensions. The long, thick tail of a kangaroo functions as a 3rd leg. The rabbit's fluff-butt is utilized to interact with other rabbits. The rope-like tail of the hippopotamus flicks their poop far and wide. Several carnivores utilize their tail to make them more agile on...

Belt and Suspenders: Alpine Lake Bacteria Deploy 2 Light-Harvesting Systems

Lake Gossenköllesee is located in the Tyrolean Alps. Credit: Christopher Bellas Though human beings, along with other vertebrate and invertebrate organisms, do not photosynthesize, we're certainly the downstream beneficiaries of the life forms that do. Phototrophic organisms at the bottom of the food chain convert plentiful sunlight into the energy that ultimately powers all other...

New Biomarker Test Can Spot Alzheimer’s Neurodegeneration in Blood

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of neuroscientists led by a College of Pittsburgh Institution of Medicine scientist created a test to spot a new marker of Alzheimer's illness neurodegeneration in a blood sample. A research on their outcomes was released today in Brain. New Biomarker The biomarker, named brain-derived tau, or BD-tau, outperforms...

Utilize Screen to Calm Your Child Down? Study on Lasting Effects Has Some Troubling News

(MoMo Productions/DigitalVision/Getty Images) Putting a screen in front of a kid is a tried and trusted form of keeping them entertained and calm-- and it works very well for grownups, too-- however as a constant calming method, it might have its disadvantages, according to a recent research. Research involving the screen and children The team found that...

Physicists Produce the First Two-Dimensional Ferrimagnetism in Graphene

Graphic diagram depicting the Hall effect in the system under investigation. Credit: SPbU Researchers from St. Petersburg College and their international associates have created the globe's first two-dimensional ferromagnetism in graphene. The use of the obtained magnetic state of graphene can become the basis of a current method to electronics, increasing its energy efficiency and...

Two Time Crystals Have Been Successfully Connected Together For the First Time

Alexandr Gnezdilov Light Painting/Moment/Getty The wonderful step taken by physicists Physicists have just taken an wonderful step regarding quantum devices that seems like something out of science fiction. For the first time, isolated sets of particles acting like unusual states of matter known as time crystals have been connected into a single, advancing system that could...