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Granite Discovery Indicates Moon is More Similar to Earth Than We Believed

Credit: unplah By utilizing microwave instruments to examine the depths of the Moon's far side, scientists have identified a significant subsurface granite formation referred to as a "hotspot." This discovery implies that the Moon possesses greater similarities to Earth than what was previously assumed. Granite formations are typically found on Earth as a result of the...

A Smarter Way to Clean Your Kitchen and Dishes

Credit: Unsplash. Every type of home, whether it's big or small, an apartment or a vacation home, gets messy. Clean the Kitchen doesn't have to be done in just one way, but there are smarter ways to clean the cooking space. Along the way, we'll discover some tips and tricks that will help you clean...

Hammerhead Sharks, The First Fish Specie Holding Their Breath.

The image shows a young scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini) in the vicinity of the ocean surface near Hawaii, with its mouth and gills visibly open. Credit: Biosphoto/Alamy Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) have developed a distinctive adaptation to conserve body heat while hunting in frigid depths. In order to enhance their hunting capabilities, they...

Using Minnesota Rocks To Illustrate How An Atmosphere Could Have Formed On Mars

Comparison between (proto-)serpentinites of the Duluth Complex and available samples from Mars. Credit: Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add8472 A pair of researchers, hailing respectively from the University of Calgary in Canada and the University of Cambridge in the UK, have found that analyzing rocks from Duluth, Minnesota, may yield understanding about the development of the ancient atmosphere...

Scientists Create Anti-COVID Spray with 24-Hour Effectiveness

Credit: CleanLink Even as offices keep expanding capacities as the danger of COVID-19 diminishes, occupants will still expect a particular standard when guaranteeing surfaces are not infected. In an effort to assist frontline cleaning teams with touchpoint disinfection, researchers from the University of Queensland's School of Engineering are striving to create a spray capable of...

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...

Outstanding Technological Breakthroughs of 2022

Credit: lifestayleasia The world of technology is everchanging and progressive. All over the world new technology comes to life. Here are some of the most relevant this year: Asteroid deflected The asteroid Dimorphos was the target for this year’s test run of a potential planetary defense system—an impact from a fridge-size spacecraft that successfully altered its orbit....

NASA Study Discovers Climate Extremes Affect Landslides in Surprising Manners

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The outcomes represent an initial step toward developing what scholars expect will become the capacity to foresee whether a slow-moving landslide will fail and slide downhill. Climate modification is leading more volatile precipitation patterns worldwide-- very dry stretches punctuated by storms that drop large quantities of rain or snow in a short...

Researchers Uncover Evidence of What May Be Earth’s First Mass Animal Extinction

Aaron Foster/Getty Images Ever since the Cambrian blast 538.8 million years earlier-- a time when most of the animal phyla we're familiar with today were established-- 5 significant mass extinction events have whittled down the biodiversity of all creatures, great and tiny. Researchers from the United States have uncovered proof of one happening earlier, around 550...

Researchers Discover Exotic Quantum State in Topological Insulators

Researchers at Princeton found that a material known as a topological insulator, made from the elements bismuth and bromine, exhibit specialized quantum behaviors normally seen only under extreme experimental conditions of high pressures and temperatures near absolute zero. Credit: Shafayat Hossain and M. Zahid Hasan of Princeton University A new discovery For the first time, physicists...