Category: 7. Science
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Sun bombards Earth with a series of coronal mass ejections
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Astronomers Solve 70-Year-Old Cosmic Ray Mystery – SciTechDaily
- Astronomers Solve 70-Year-Old Cosmic Ray Mystery SciTechDaily
- Microquasars emerge as the Milky Way’s most extreme particle engines ScienceDaily
- Cosmic ray puzzle resolved as scientists link ‘knee’ formation to black holes Phys.org
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BoxCell: Leveraging SAM for Cell Segmentation with Box Supervision
Lu, C. et al. Nuclear shape and orientation features from h &e images predict survival in early-stage estrogen receptor-positive breast cancers. Lab. Invest. 98, 1438–1448 (2018).
Wählby,…
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Microbes frozen for 40,000 years revive, reorganize, devour carbon
Microbes entombed in deep permafrost, ground that stays frozen for at least 2 years, can switch back on after thawing when warmed. Experiments with Alaskan cores show they start releasing carbon dioxide within months of thaw, even from layers…
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Baby sea turtles somehow travel thousands of ocean miles alone
Hatchling loggerhead sea turtles begin life with a remarkable challenge. They crawl from the beach into the surf and then navigate thousands of miles across open ocean – alone, with no experience, and no adults to guide them.
A new study from…
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Deep radar scan uncovers potential oasis under Mars’ frozen surface
Rather than assuming that modern Mars is too cold and dry to sustain liquid water, new evidence is challenging that belief. Data from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument has revealed unusually…
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ISS astronaut discovers a sacred lake has turned toxic green
High above Earth, an astronaut looked down on northern Ethiopia. Below, Lake Tana, about 1,200 square miles across, held two dark islands whose monasteries guard the mummified remains of ancient emperors.
In the image, the lake glows an unhealthy…
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