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There May Be Good News About the Oceans in a Globally Warmed World

Credit: Unsplash. A recent study led by Rutgers University and published in Nature indicates that an analysis of oxygen levels in Earth's oceans could potentially bring some encouraging news about the oceans' health in a future world affected by global warming. The study focused on examining ocean sediment and revealed that during the Miocene warm period...

How Amazing Our Brain Is

The brain is a complex organ that controls thought, memory, emotion, touch, motor skills, vision, breathing, temperature, hunger and every process that regulates our body. Together, the brain and spinal cord that extends from it make up the central nervous system, or CNS. Credit:https: //www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ The Brain has the ability that makes us read, play...

Bangladesh Develops Innovations to Fight Climate Change

People moving under heavy rain in Bangladesh. Credit: Newshour. Bangladesh, a country with low-lying topography, contributes only 0.5% of the global carbon emissions. Despite its minimal carbon footprint, Bangladesh bears a disproportionate burden of the consequences of climate change caused by such emissions. Nevertheless, Bangladesh is actively developing innovative methods to forecast and safeguard against...

SpaceX's Starship - the vehicle that will take humans to mars

Starship Mankind’s Interplanetary Vehicle

SpaceX's Starship. Credit: SpaceX Unless you have been extremely busy, you must have heard of SpaceX's Starship fully assembled test flight. Despite the fact that the test did not go as planned, there are good lessons to take from it. It is important to notice that such an event is still a landmark for humanity,...

Detecting Organic Compounds Using Visible Light

Graphical abstract. Credit: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c07955 Scientists from Universidad de Santiago de Chile and the University of Notre Dame have developed a machine learning-based approach to recognize organic compounds by their refractive index at a particular optical wavelength. This method has the potential to automate chemical analysis and make it more...

A Recently Discovered Type of Salty Ice Can Feed On the Surface Area of Extraterrestrial Moons

Jupiter's moons,also called Europa, have thrilling red streaks all over it´s surface. Scientists believe it's a frozen blend of water and salts, (like salty ice). Its chemical mark is unknown considering that it has no recognized substance on earth. Researchers discovered two new crystals made from water and table salt at low temperatures, below about...

A More Precise Measurement of Electron Magnetic Moment was Achieved

Measurement of magnetic Moment of the electron: (a) Cryogenic system supports a 50 mK electron trap upon a 4.2 K solenoid to provide a very stable B. (b) Silver electrodes of a cylindrical Penning trap. (c) Quantum spin and cyclotron energy levels were used for measurement. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.071801 Physicists from Havard University and Northwestern college have worked out...

New Class of Medicinal Compounds that Target RNA

Graphical abstract. Credit: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.12.080 A team of undergraduate and also graduate chemistry students in Jennifer Hines' laboratory at Ohio University recently uncovered a current class of compounds that can target RNA and disrupt its function. This discovery determined a chemical scaffold that might ultimately be utilized in the development of...

Reconstruction of Two-Billion-Year-Old Enzyme Solves Mystery

Credit: Scitech Daily Molecular biologists and bioinformatics scientists working at One Direction The focus of the study was on a type of enzyme famed as tRNA nucleotidyltransferases, that links three building blocks of nucleotides in the C-C-A sequence to small RNAs named transfer RNAs. To supply amino acids for proteins inside the cells. Directed by Professors...

How Smoke Produced From Large Wildfires Can Affect Local Weather And Make Fires Worse

Credit: Pixabay/ Public Domain The research team's study highlights the intricate feedback loop between wildfires and the atmosphere, suggesting that smoke produced by large wildfires may lead to more intense fires. The team's use of various tools to measure the effect of soot and other particles emitted into the air during large wildfires could help...