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Forget world records because astronomers recently announced a new solar system record – the fastest spinning large asteroid ever discovered. It’s about the length of eight football…
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Comparative prognostic value of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T and NT-proBNP for 30-day mortality in non-cardiac critically ill patients
Thygesen, K. et al. Fourth universal definition of myocardial infarction (2018). J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 72, 2231–2264 (2018).
Giannitsis, E., Kurz, K., Hallermayer, K., Jarausch, J. & Katus,…
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Scientists Turn Mysterious Cell ‘Vaults’ Into a Diary of Genetic Activity Through Time
In the 1980s, UCLA cellular biologist Leonard Rome noticed odd, barrel-shaped structures present in almost all cells. The hollow particles were filled with RNA and a handful of proteins. Naming them vaults, Rome has tried to understand their…
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The Sun’s Red Dwarf Neighbors Provide Clues to Origins of Carbon and Oxygen
We live near a fusion reactor in space that provides all our heat and light. That reactor is also responsible for the creation of various elements heavier than hydrogen, and that’s true of all stars. So, how do we know that stars are…
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Expris Advances Robotic Object Recognition With 3D Semantic Scene Graphs
Scientists are tackling the limitations of current robotic object recognition, which frequently struggles with semantic consistency despite advances in deep learning. Marian Renz, Martin Günther, and Felix Igelbrink, from the German Research…
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Quantum Amplitudes Achieve Reconstruction Of Spacetime Geometry And Black Hole Signatures
Researchers are increasingly seeking to understand the fundamental connection between quantum mechanics and gravity, and a new study published by Claudio Gambino from Sapienza University of Rome, alongside colleagues, offers a significant step…
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New Cosmological Simulations Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes in Early Universe
New state-of-the-art simulations by Maynooth University astronomers show that in the dense, turbulent dawn of the cosmos, ‘light seed’ black holes could rapidly swallow matter and rival the colossal black holes seen in the center of early…
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NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-12 Mission to Space Station
NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Friday, Jan. 30, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
At 11 a.m. EST, mission leadership will…
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A mystery object is holding this 120 million-mile-wide cloud of vaporized metal together
A tremendously large cloud that blocked the light from a distant star has been found to consist of swirling winds of vaporized metal. Even more curious, the cloud appears to be strangely bound to a mystery body that could be a massive planet or…
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