This week, Spectroscopy published a variety of articles highlighting recent studies in several application areas. Key techniques highlighted in these articles include nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), visible and near-infrared (VNIR)…
Category: 7. Science
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Spinning into the merging binary black hole family tree – Astrobites
- Spinning into the merging binary black hole family tree Astrobites
- The Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Seen Was So Rare, It Seemed Impossible. Now, Astrophysicists May Finally Have an Explanation Smithsonian Magazine
- Twin Black Hole…
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Scientists reveal kissing began millions of years before humans
A new investigation led by the University of Oxford reports that kissing may have originated in the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes roughly 21 million years ago. The research, published on November 19 in Evolution and Human…
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Researchers publish hormone-free method for plant regeneration
Researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), working in close collaboration with KeyGene, have developed a method that enables plant cells to regenerate into complete plants without the need for added hormones. This newly…
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Light Twist May Power Next-Gen Memory Devices
Modern digital systems depend on information encoded in simple binary units of 0s and 1s. Any physical substance that can reliably switch between two different, stable configurations can in principle serve as a storage platform for that…
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How did this 20-light-year-wide ‘Diamond Ring’ form in space? Maybe a cosmic bubble burst
A distant, mysterious glowing ring of gas and dust has finally given up its secrets — and it turns out to be less of a romantic cosmic jewel than its shimmering appearance suggests.
In the constellation Cygnus, a bright knot of stars seems to…
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This engineered fungus cuts emissions and tastes like meat
A recent study published November 19 in Trends in Biotechnology reports that scientists used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to improve how efficiently a fungus produces protein while also lowering the environmental footprint of that production by…
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Why some volcanoes don’t explode
Poiseuille number in volcanic systems. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adw8543
The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how…
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Earth just got hit by a stealth solar storm no one saw coming
A stealth solar storm hit Earth on Nov. 20. It arrived without warning and may have contributed to auroras visible at mid latitudes.
This event didn’t trigger a geomagnetic storm; however, such solar storms, or coronal mass ejections (CMEs), are…
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NASA Will Save a Falling Telescope With a Plane-Boosted Rocket in 2026 – extremetech.com
- NASA Will Save a Falling Telescope With a Plane-Boosted Rocket in 2026 extremetech.com
- Katalyst selects Pegasus to launch Swift reboost mission SpaceNews
- A NASA Space Telescope Is Falling Out of the Sky. Can This Startup Save it? Gizmodo
- Pegasus…
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