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…
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It is worth staying up for this pleasing view of the moon as it encounters Jupiter and the brightest stars of Gemini, the twins. The chart shows the view looking east from London at 00:30 BST in the very early morning of 14 October.
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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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A recent study of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has detected several organic compounds that had never been recorded there before. The findings, published this month in Nature Astronomy, provide new clues about the interior chemical…
It’s another moon phase tonight, which means the moon will look around half full (or, half gone?). But what phase is it, and what does it mean? Let’s find out.
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Lindsay points toward an important issue: the disconnect between research on the sensory processing of complex, natural visual information and…
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…