Dry Rice: Cracking the Core Physiological and Molecular Traits of Drought-Tolerant Rice
Study links gene expression patterns to traits that improve drought tolerance in rice plants. For many smallholder farmers in South and Southeast Asia, rice is…
Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Catches a Second Comet by the Tail
For the second time in its mission so far, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through the tail of a comet. Predicted in advance…
A Crunching Multiverse To Solve Two Fundamental Physics Puzzles at Once
A duo of theorists proposes a new theory to explain both the surprisingly small mass of the Higgs boson and the puzzling symmetry properties of…
Physicist’s Radical Solution to Century Old Problem of Radiation Reaction – With Controversial Implications
A Lancaster physicist has proposed a radical solution to the question of how a charged particle, such as an electron, responded to its own electromagnetic…
Atomic Armor for Next-Generation, Electron-Beam Accelerators
Advancement in single-atom layer graphene coatings improves accelerator electron source lifespans. Protective coatings are common for many things in daily life that see a lot…
Cosmic Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Produce Particle-Antiparticle Pairs From a Vacuum
Cosmic physics mimicked on table-top as graphene enables Schwinger effect. Researchers at The University of Manchester have succeeded in observing the so-called Schwinger effect,…
Complex Color Explosion – Beautiful Earth
This NASA image of the day, captured by the Landsat 8 satellite, shows the view over Western Australia on May 12, 2013. The image shows…
First Molecular Electronics Chip Developed – Realizes 50-Year-Old Goal
A platform for single-molecule measurement of binding kinetics & enzyme activity. The first molecular electronics chip has been developed, realizing a 50-year-old goal of integrating…
In 1999 Mysterious Finger-Like Features Were Spotted on the Sun – Now Scientists Have an Explanation
In January 1999, scientists observed mysterious motions within a solar flare. Unlike typical flares that showed bright energy erupting outwards from the Sun, this solar…
Harvard Mathematician Resolves 150-Year-Old Chess Problem
A Different Kind of Queen’s Gambit Harvard mathematician largely resolves 150-year-old chess problem involving most powerful piece on board. The queen is the most powerful…
Space Station Agriculture Teaching How to Sustain Space Crews
Space agriculture dominated the research schedule aboard the International Space Station yesterday to learn how to sustain long-term crews far beyond low-Earth orbit. The Expedition…
Unprecedented New Telescope Image Reveals Nearly 1,000 Mysterious Strands in Milky Way’s Center
‘A watershed in furthering our understanding of these structures,’ researcher says. An unprecedented new telescope image of the Milky Way galaxy’s turbulent center has revealed…
Mysterious “Zen Stone” Phenomenon Finally Understood
Like a work of art enshrined in a museum, some stones end up on a pedestal of ice in nature, with no human intervention. This…
Schools and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Simulation Model Allows for Safe Operation
Developed during the ongoing pandemic, but adaptable to different needs: Austrian scientists develop simulation model for keeping schools open safely during a pandemic. A year…
Even Remote Areas Are Not Safe Havens for Biodiversity
An international research team led by Associate Professor Giovanni Strona from the University of Helsinki has identified a general macroecological mechanism that calls for a…
Scientists Regrow Frog’s Lost Leg With a Five-Drug Cocktail
Frogs briefly treated with a five-drug cocktail administered by a wearable bioreactor on the stump were able to regrow a functional, nearly complete limb. For…
Hypertensive Crisis: Uncontrolled Blood Pressure Is Sending Twice As Many People to the Hospital
Men are more likely than women to be admitted for a hypertensive crisis, but women have similar hospital mortality rates. The number of people hospitalized for…
Climate and Health Impacts of Natural Gas Stoves Are Much Greater Than Previously Thought
Study estimates that methane leaking from stoves inside US homes has the same climate impact as about 500,000 gasoline-powered cars and the stoves can expose…