Want to discover an asteroid, but don’t have your own telescope? Don’t worry! NASA’s International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) team has just introduced a new online project on the Zooniverse platform where you can help…
Category: 7. Science
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Astronomers Discover a Star That Breaks the Rules Orbiting a Silent Black Hole – SciTechDaily
- Astronomers Discover a Star That Breaks the Rules Orbiting a Silent Black Hole SciTechDaily
- Red Giant “Star Songs” Reveal Their Chaotic, Pasts Sky & Telescope
- ‘Starquakes’ show young red giant orbiting dormant black hole | For more…
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New Coating Method Stabilizes Fragile Magnetic Material for Next-Generation Quantum Devices | News
Molecule-based magnets like vanadium tetracyanoethylene have long shown promise for quantum technologies, but they are so sensitive to air that they’ve been nearly impossible to use in real devices. This new work solves that problem by…
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A GPER-PKA-Centrin axis regulates centrosome numbers and centriole integrity in colon cancer cells
Buhler, M. & Stolz, A. Estrogens-origin of centrosome defects in human cancer?. Cells 11, 432 (2022).
Chan, J. Y. A clinical overview of centrosome amplification in human cancers. Int. J. Biol….
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Crows Can Hold A Grudge Way Longer Than You Can
We’re not kidding. The average life expectancy of a single crow is about seven or eight years in the wild – but “it’s now 14 years that the birds continue to respond to us,” John Marzluff, a professor of wildlife science at the…
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A Natural Laboratory Of Spiralling Dust Shells
In multiple ways, the JWST is opening our eyes to the Universe. It’s enriching our understanding of the cosmos by showing us things we didn’t think were possible, and by uncovering more details in things that have been observed many…
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See the Butterfly Nebula like never before in this spectacular Gemini South telescope image
The Gemini South telescope is turning 25, and astronomers are celebrating its birthday with a dazzling new image of the Butterfly Nebula.
Also cataloged as NGC 6302, this planetary nebula is located in the constellation Scorpius, the Scorpion….
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The Seven Sisters Get 3,000 New Siblings
The Maori called them Matariki; to the Celts in Ireland they were Streoillín; their Hebrew name, Kimah, appears in the Bible multiple times. We call them by the same name the ancient Greeks did—the Pleiades, or “Seven Sisters”—a…
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Kinase inhibitors can accelerate the degradation of target proteins, study reveals
Protein kinases are the molecular switches of the cell. They control growth, division, communication, and survival by attaching phosphate groups to other proteins. When these switches are stuck in the “on” position, they can drive…
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Researchers uncover how a key transcription factor reads DNA in human cells
With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to increased knowledge about gene regulation in human cells.
How genes are turned on and off is crucial for the…
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