UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new class of ceramics are not only transparent, but they can control light with exceptional efficiency — better than any theories predicted. Now, an advanced theory put forth by researcher at Penn…
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First, male gets heated up, then female, and then, you know — Harvard Gazette
Brace yourself for a hot story about plant sex.
Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads — an ancient lineage of seed plants — heat their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators, which in turn evolved specialized infrared…
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Astronomers Make First Radio Detection of Rare Supernova Type, Revealing Secrets of Stellar Death
Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA) have made an unprecedented discovery, capturing the first-ever radio signals from a rare class of stellar explosion known as a Type Ibn supernova. This…
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Comet 3I/ATLAS displays greenish hue in new Gemini North telescope images – Phys.org
- Comet 3I/ATLAS displays greenish hue in new Gemini North telescope images Phys.org
- NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Revisits Interstellar Comet NASA Science (.gov)
- NASA’s Hubble telescope gets another look at 3I/ATLAS. Here’s what it found USA…
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New window coating could help save energy worldwide
Windows are the Achilles’ heel of energy efficient buildings. You can stuff walls with insulation, but panes have to let light through, and most materials that trap heat also scatter it, turning your view cloudy.
That trade-off helps explain why…
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Global species delimitation of smooth-shelled blue mussels in the Mytilus edulis complex
Sites, J. W. & Marshall, J. C. Delimiting species: A renaissance issue in systematic biology. Trends Ecol. Evol. 18 (9), 462–470 (2003).
Camargo, A. & Sites, J. W. Species delimitation: A…
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Sensor Technology Could Transform Nano-Scale Detection
At the heart of every camera is a sensor, whether that sensor is a collection of light-detecting pixels or a strip of 35-millimeter film. But what happens when you want to take a picture of something so small that the sensor itself has…
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MicroBooNE celebrates tenth anniversary at Fermilab
Ten years ago, the first neutrinos interacted in the liquid argon of the MicroBooNE particle detector at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, marking a turning point for the lab’s neutrino research…
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A spider-like scar haunts Jupiter’s moon Europa — and scientists think they know why
A strange, spider-like scar on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may mark where salty water once surged up through its fractured crust.
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft (whose mission ended in 2003) spotted the unique feature — officially named Damhán Alla,…
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Thank The JWST For Confirming The First Runaway Supermassive Black Hole
What could force a supermassive black hole (SMBH) out of its host galaxy? They can have hundreds of millions, even billions of solar masses? What’s powerful enough to dislodge one of these behemoths?
The answer lies in galaxy mergers….
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