Solar sailing technology has been a dream of many for decades. The simple elegance of sailing on the light waves of the sun does have a dreamy aspect to it that has captured the imagination of engine… [+3444 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been in space for about six months, which is just a fraction of the time NASA spent designing and building it. All that effort is about to pay off, though. W… [+2659 chars]
During radio continuum observations of a spiral galaxy known as NGC 2082, Australian astronomers have discovered a mysterious bright and compact radio source, which received designation J054149.24641… [+3272 chars]
A new artificial enzyme has shown it can chew through lignin, the tough polymer that helps woody plants hold their shape. Lignin also stores tremendous potential for renewable energy and materials.Re… [+5659 chars]
Characterization of catalysts Figure 1A shows the XRD patterns of the catalysts prepared in this study. Cerium dioxide was found to crystallize in cubic CeO2 phase (ICDD entry number: 00-067-0123), … [+21997 chars]
Astrophysicists have long sought to detect dark matter, the elusive, invisible force that does not reflect or emit light but accounts for a vast amount of all the matter — roughly 85 percent accordin… [+3139 chars]
Natural selection has produced mammals that age at dramatically different rates. Take, for example, naked mole rats and mice; the former can live up to 41 years, nearly ten times as long as similar-s… [+3593 chars]
Newswise — A new study by City, University of London and others suggests that the European cuttlefish (sepia officinalis) may combine, as necessary, two distinct neural systems that process specific … [+3621 chars]
Many disease-causing bacteria are able to inhibit the defense mechanisms in plants and thus escape dissolution by the plant cell, a process known as xenophagy. Animal and human cells have a similar m… [+3470 chars]
The efficiency of using some biological organisms as biological catalysts to reduce the incidence of cantaloupe downy mildew disease under greenhouse conditions. To tackle the problem of Cantaloupe … [+4363 chars]
Training of ResNet-50 A total of 5530796 images were captured in Tromsø from 2011 to 2021 season, of which 87275 (1.6% of the data) were manually labeled and then used for the training and evaluatio… [+16008 chars]
Chemical reactions that are driven by light offer a powerful tool for chemists who are designing new ways to manufacture pharmaceuticals and other useful compounds. Harnessing this light energy requi… [+5425 chars]