Northern lights (aurora borealis) illuminate the night sky over Vienna during a geomagnetic storm on May 11, 2024. (Photo by MAX SLOVENCIK/APA/AFP via Getty Images)
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hydrogen is an important energy source for the future. Therefore, understanding the electrolysis process is essential. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at…
Image: (From left) Prof Mary Chan from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Dr Kaixi Zhang from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, and Prof Paula Hammond from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were…
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NASA launched three satellites to help provide crucial insights into solar storms, which can scramble communication systems on Earth and pose a threat to astronauts.
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BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) — A Chinese research team has compiled a groundbreaking plasma metabolome atlas, mapping the extensive links between metabolic profiles and a wide range of human diseases.
This work provides a valuable theoretical…