From A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman by Lindy Elkins-Tanton. Copyright © 2022 by Linda Elkins-Tanton. Reprinted by permission of William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. … [+7240 chars]
Funding Cutting-Edge Research The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan’s Mizusawa VLBI Observatory in sh, Iwate Prefecture, is an important center in the effort to unlock the mysteries of blac… [+6854 chars]
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The research supervised by leading astrophysicist Prof Stephen Smartt is based on analysis of a 2017 gravitational waves discovery. Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast claim to have identified… [+2326 chars]
Many hypotheses seek to explain the particularly favorable properties of perovskite semiconductors for solar cells. Polarons or a giant Rashba effect, for example, are thought to play a major role. A… [+5135 chars]
Photo credit: Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR , via Wikimedia Commons. We are used to thinking of data compression in connection with computers but a recent study with mice shows that brains compress data too… [+3877 chars]
Whatever you are doing, whether it is driving a car, going for a jog, or even at your laziest, eating chips and watching TV on the couch, there is an entire suite of molecular machinery inside each o… [+7353 chars]
A researcher said the "numbers don't lie -- it is bigger than the biggest known specimen" in Europe. Paris: A giant crocodile-faced dinosaur, discovered on the Isle of Wight by one of Britain's best… [+4019 chars]
Japan's space agency has performed an initial analysis of samples from the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Ryugu. The samples are some of the most primitive materials ever recovered from space and wil… [+7517 chars]
Effect of spinetoram seed treatments on SFB infestation and cabbage damage rates The effects of spinetoram seed treatments were evaluated in both controlled and field environments. In a controlled e… [+4957 chars]
Dear readers, Welcome to Quartzs newsletter on the economic possibilities of the extraterrestrial sphere. Please forward widely, and let me know what you think. This week: Building a new orbit, scru… [+6585 chars]
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