Physicists in Finland have created a pumpkin-shaped atomic nucleus that throws off protons in a rare kind of radioactive decay. The nucleus, lutetium-149, has the shortest half-life of any of a gro… [+2328 chars]
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS We know what Mars looks like (rocky). We know what it feels like (dusty, cold and windy). Now we also know what it sounds like thanks to NASA's Perseverance rover's ability to … [+1586 chars]
NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft was deactivated in November 2018, about ten years after it launched. The mission detected over 5,000 candidate exoplanets and 2,662 confirmed exoplanets using … [+9009 chars]
Plants are often exposed to multiple herbivores, and densities of these attackers often fluctuate greatly in the field. Herbivore identity and density are known to be two major drivers of plant-media… [+2517 chars]
Apr 6 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith The flourishing field of optoelectronic devices is accountable for driving the development of new alkali metal-based chalcogenides consisting of qualities that have … [+2815 chars]
Earthworms are a welcome sight for gardeners and farmers because the wriggling invertebrates recycle nutrients from soil, making them more accessible to plants. As worms burrow, they consume almost e… [+2909 chars]
Optimum trigger and analysis threshold The continuous data stream of CUORE is triggered with the optimum trigger, an algorithm based on the optimum filter51 characterized by a lower threshold than a… [+10169 chars]
Ground-breaking research into the hot structures deep in the Earth suggest they could be much more fluid than once supposed. An article published this week by the prestigious journal, Nature, shows … [+2748 chars]
Todays stories range from Was Our Universe Created in a Laboratory to Mystery Signal Traced to a Nearby Galaxys Globular Cluster to Jupiters Moon Europa, Chaos Terrains Could be Shuttling Oxygen to O… [+5492 chars]
A study in Economic Inquiry uses a novel experimental design to deconstruct the motives behind engaging in cronyism, for example, when a manager hires a friend without proper regard to their qualific… [+1814 chars]
April is the cruellest month, wrote TS Eliot in his poem The Waste Land. This is not only because the UK tax year begins this week, but also because the centennial of one of the twentieth centurys mo… [+2173 chars]
NASAs Moon-bound mega-rocket suffered another setback Monday, failing its wet dress rehearsal, which could deal a huge setback to NASAs biggest rocket since the Apollo-era Saturn V. According to N… [+4054 chars]
