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Top Motoring Leader Requests Transportation to Lead Australia’s Financial Recovery

Credit: whichcar. According to one of the industry's top leaders, the transportation sector has been praised as one of the largest parts of Australia's regional economy to lead us through our post-COVID-19 recuperation period. The Australian Automobile Association The Australian Automobile Association (AAA) has called for transportation to become among the leading sectors in Australia's financial restoration...

New, Possibly Arboreal Rice Rat Varieties Uncovered in Ecuador

New, possibly arboreal rice rat species discovered in Ecuador - ScienceDaily - Verve timesVisitar "In total, the expeditions to the Kutukú region in southeastern Ecuador involved 1,200 trap nights, but only one specimen of the new species Mindomys kutuku was found," claims Dr. Claudia Koch, curator of herpetology at the LIB, Gallery Koenig Bonn, describing the effort...

Nuclear Fusion: How Thrilled Should We Be?

Fusion could create more energy than any other process that could be produced on Earth. Credit: Shutterstock There has been significant excitement about recent results from the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in the UK, suggesting that the dream of nuclear fusion power is inching closer to reality. We know that fusion works-- it is the...

Fast Adaptation in Fruit Flies

A new study reveals how male fruit fly decides to a court or ignore female – Harvard Gazette. news.harvard.edu Think development is a slow, gradual process? Inform that to fruit flies. In a brand-new report in Scientific research, researchers from the College of Pennsylvania used a regulated field experiment to reveal that flies swiftly adapted...

How Game Theory Method Boosts Choice Making

Game theory, the investigation of tactical decisions, brings various skills such as math, psychology, and point of view together. Game theory was created by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in 1944 and has traveled a long way ever since. The worth of game theory for decision making and evaluation today can be assessed...

Taking the First Steps Towards the Optimal Production of Biofuels

Partial density of states for 2,3-butanediol with accompanying partial charge density images; isosurface of 0.0075 electrons/Bohr3. The gray, red, brown, and pink spheres are Ru, O, C, and H atoms, respectively. Credit: DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2021.781001 From Plants to Jet fuel A long-overlooked first step in producing sustainable aviation fuels will start with the ideal arrangement of molecular...

Astronomers Identify Remains of Long-Lost Galaxy Consumed by the Milky Way

The Gaia spacecraft's view of the Milky Way galaxy, with purple marking the remains of the Pontus galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) The massive appetite of a Galaxy The Milky Way galaxy devoured more galaxies in its early days than astronomers assumed. The Gaia spacecraft discovered the remains of an ancient cosmic collision in...

Did Civilization Rise Because of a Comet Impact?

Credit: Vladislav Tchakarov Human beings unexpectedly changed around 13,000 years ago. Hunter-gatherer societies began to transform their lifestyle quickly. They began to construct permanent settlements and focused their efforts on farming. The earliest man-made megalithic structures around were also constructed around this period. Was a comet collision the reason behind this fast advancement of human...

Starship’s Advanced Model is Said to Have NASA Officials Sh**ting the Bed

SpaceX's Starship carrying out test flight maneuvers. Credit: SpaceX According to a statement from Politico, Elon Musk recently provided the first big update on SpaceX's Mars-bound rocket, Starship, and its competitors are monitoring on with "a mix of admiration and fright." At his latest Starship presentation, SpaceX CEO Musk emphasized the truth that Starship would...

Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years Come Back to Life

Credit: Ghedoghedo/Wikimedia Commons Pleistocene age worms found in Arctic permafrost live and eat well after being defrosted some 42,000 years later. Two ancient nematodes are moving and eating normally again for the very first time since the Pleistocene age. The roundworms were discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost and subsequently thawed out and resuscitated in Petri...