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Diverse forests hold huge carbon potential, as long as we cut emissions
Drone view over a forest landscape. Credit: Julian Culverhouse Research results published in the journal, Nature, show that realistic global forest carbon potential is approximately 226 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon. The study, which involved hundreds of scientists around the world, highlights the critical importance of forest conservation, restoration, and sustainable management in moving towards international…
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New AI Robot could make oxygen from ice on Mars
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) may have made a breakthrough discovery that could make long-term colonization of planets like Mars possible. Using a specially designed artificial intelligence (AI) “chemist,” they have found a way to rapidly prototype and synthesize oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts that could be used to…
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Swiss researchers develop first large-scale in-memory processor
Researchers at the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed the world’s first large-scale in-memory processor, a university press release said. The processor aims to redefine energy usage in data processing and make it energy efficient. Modern-day information technology systems are well known…
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Vampire Viruses Prey On Other Viruses To Replicate Themselves − And May Hold The Key To New Antiviral Therapies
Have you ever wondered whether the virus that gave you a nasty cold can catch one itself? It may comfort you to know that, yes, viruses can actually get sick. Even better, as karmic justice would have it, the culprits turn out to be other viruses. Viruses can get sick in the sense that their…
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Biological Particles Play A Crucial Role In Arctic Cloud Ice Formation
A Highly fluorescent particle (HFP) concentration, equivalent black carbon (eBC) and levoglucosan concentration. B Primary biological aerosol particle (PBAP) concentration, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)… Continue Reading News Source: astrobiology.com
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The Pioneer Anomaly: What Happened To Old NASA Probes At 20 Astronomical Units?
In 1972 and 1973, NASA launched the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 probes. They were the first missions to Jupiter and Saturn, before heading to the asteroid belt and becoming the first two of five probes to reach the edge of our Solar System. With such missions, NASA was of course expecting to hit some…
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Life Detection and Microbial Biomarker Profiling with Signs of Life Detector-Life Detector Chip During a Mars Drilling Simulation Campaign in the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert
The K-REX2 rover, designed at NASA’s Ames Research Center, is at the heart of NASA’s Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies, or ARADS, project. It is seen here in Chile’s Atacama Desert during the 2018… Continue Reading News Source: astrobiology.com
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Researchers discover emission from secondary black hole in binary system of blazar OJ 287
Simultaneous optical flux and polarization light curves of OJ 287 from 2015 to 2023, with the R magnitudes at the bottom and the PD and PA in the middle and upper panels, respectively. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2023). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acfd2e OJ 287 is recognized as a binary black hole system with a slowly spiraling…