How Some Crops Replenish Their Own Fertilizer Through Bacteria in Their Roots – A Surprisingly Complex Interaction
Plants need nitrogen in the form of ammonium if they are to grow. In the case of a great many cultivated plants, farmers are obliged…
Rivers Transport Carbon From Fires Into Oceans, Locking It In Storage for Thousands of Years
The extent to which rivers transport burned carbon to oceans — where it can be stored for tens of millennia — is revealed in new…
Effective SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibodies Found – Major Milestone in the Fight Against COVID-19
A joint research team led by Sunney Xie, Director of Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG) at Peking University (PKU) has successfully identified multiple…
Mathematicians Resolve Complex Geometry Question First Asked 60 Years Ago
Dr. Kerin is only the second Irish mathematician to have a published article in the Annals of Mathematics. An Irish mathematician, Dr. Martin Kerin, from…
Scientists Discover What a 2900 Pound Armored Dinosaur Ate for Its Last Meal 110 Million Years Ago
More than 110 million years ago, a lumbering 1,300-kilogram (~2900 lbs), armor-plated dinosaur ate its last meal, died, and was washed out to sea in…
New High Precision Chip-Based Laser Gyroscope Can Measure Earth’s Rotation
Gyroscopes have been indispensable tools for navigation and measurement for many decades. Early gyroscopes were not much different than spinning tops, but the technology has…
Researchers Dig Into Case of Geologic Amnesia – In Search of a Billion Years Missing From the Geologic Record
A team of geologists led by CU Boulder is digging into what may be Earth’s most famous case of geologic amnesia. Researchers have spotted that phenomenon,…
COVID-19 Could Be a Seasonal Illness – Recurring in Periods of Lower Humidity
A study conducted in Sydney during the early epidemic stage of COVID-19 has found an association between lower humidity and an increase in locally acquired…
ITER Fusion Reactor Tokamak Assembly Begins – World’s Largest International Scientific Collaboration
ITER, the world’s largest international scientific collaboration, is beginning assembly of the fusion reactor tokamak that will include 12 different essential hardware systems provided by…
Mini Human Livers Grown in Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Rats
Using skin cells from human volunteers, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have created fully functional mini livers, which they then transplanted…
Reflecting Sunlight to Cool the Planet – MIT Investigates Solar Geoengineering Proposals
Solar geoengineering proposals will weaken extratropical storm tracks in both hemispheres, scientists find. How can the world combat the continued rise in global temperatures? How…
Solar Ring Mission Proposal: A New Concept of Space Exploration
With the development of science and technology, human’s activity was and is expanding from land, sea and sky to the space and other planets. In…
AI System – Using Neural Networks With Deep Learning – Beats Stock Market in Simulation
Researchers in Italy have melded the emerging science of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with deep learning — a discipline within artificial intelligence — to achieve…
Brian May (Lead Guitarist of Rock Band Queen) Works to Probe Origin of Asteroids
Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May has teamed up with asteroid researchers to investigate striking similarities and a puzzling difference between separate bodies explored by…
Classical Novae – A Class of Stellar Explosions – Discovered to Be Galactic Producers of Lithium
A team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Sumner Starrfield of Arizona State University (ASU), has combined theory with both observations and laboratory studies and determined…
Killing COVID-19 Coronavirus With a Handheld UV Light Device
A personal, handheld device emitting high-intensity ultraviolet light to disinfect areas by killing the novel coronavirus is now feasible, according to researchers at Penn State,…
New Mathematical Formula May Help 5G Wireless Networks Efficiently Share Communications Frequencies
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a mathematical formula that, computer simulations suggest, could help 5G and other wireless…
Terahertz Radiation Can Disrupt Proteins in Living Cells – Contradicting Conventional Belief
Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and collaborators have discovered that terahertz radiation, contradicting conventional belief, can disrupt proteins in living cells without…