The Moon is up and easy to spot tonight. Its surface is covered in craters and plains that are nice and easy to see, thanks to where we are in the lunar cycle. The lunar cycle is the Moon’s…
Category: 7. Science
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Scientists in Australia develop nanofluidic chip with brain-like memory pathway-Xinhua
MELBOURNE, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) — Scientists in Australia have developed a coin-sized fluid-based chip that behaves like neural pathways of the brain, potentially heralding a new generation of computers.
The chip channels ions through tiny…
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Numerical Analysis on Seismic Response and Failure Mechanism of Articulated Pile−Structure System in a Liquefiable Site from Shaking-Table Experiments
Pile foundations are widely used in supporting bridges, high-rise buildings, and offshore structures due to their strong adaptability to complex geological conditions and excellent load-bearing performance. However,…
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Earth from Space: Cyclone Errol
This wide view of Copernicus Sentinel-3 shows Cyclone Errol heading towards the coast of Western Australia.
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Errol was a powerful tropical cyclone, which formed as a tropical storm at…
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CNIO Maps 20,000 DNA Repair Scars in Human REPAIRome
You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical research published today in the journal Science, an achievement of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre…
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The Sky Today on Friday, October 10: Spot Ceres in Cetus
The largest body in the main belt, 1 Ceres, passes close to a 5th-magnitude star in Cetus the Whale tonight.
Ceres spends all month within a short…
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Radioactive 'window' on the Moon? Study explains why the celestial body looks spotted today – Times of India
- Radioactive ‘window’ on the Moon? Study explains why the celestial body looks spotted today Times of India
- The moon’s largest crater didn’t form in the way we thought New Scientist
- Massive impact crater may rewrite the story of the Moon’s…
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Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests
By fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers have completed the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency’s mission to discover Earth-like exoplanets. Plato is on track for the final key tests to confirm that it is…
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Scientists grow metal instead of 3D printing it — and it’s 20x stronger
Vat photopolymerization is a type of 3D printing that involves pouring a light-reactive liquid resin into a container and then solidifying specific areas with a laser or ultraviolet light to create a shape. However, because this method only works…
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