Earth today has seven continents that combine to form less than 30 per cent of the planet's landforms, while 70 per cent remain water. The continental evolution has been the result of plate tectonics… [+2881 chars]
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Transferring the nuclear genome from one egg into the cytoplasm of a donor egg is a strategy to enable women carrying mutations in their mitochondrial DNA to have healthy babies. A new study from Wei… [+3661 chars]
A black hole is usually where information goes to disappearbut scientists may have found a trick to use its last moments to tell us about the history of the universe. In a new study published in Phy… [+5549 chars]
Michael Egnor has noted that the famous philosopher René Descartes (15961650) thought that animals were biological machines that did not have minds at all. Many arguments can be mustered against that… [+5344 chars]
Newswise — When scientists unveiled humanity’s historic first image of a black hole in 2019 – depicting a dark core encircled by a fiery aura of material falling toward it – they believed even richer… [+3646 chars]
This LASCO C2 image, taken 8 January 2002, shows a widely spreading coronal mass ejection (CME) as ... [+] it blasts more than a billion tons of matter out into space at millions of kilometers per ho… [+2780 chars]
ESOs Very Large Telescope (VLT) has imaged the result of a spectacular cosmic collision the galaxy NGC 7727. This giant was born from the merger of two galaxies, an event that started around a billio… [+3418 chars]
Newswise — ITHACA, N.Y. -- At a time when astronomers around the world are reveling in new views of the distant cosmos, an experiment on the International Space Station has given Cornell researchers … [+5287 chars]
A preliminary histogram plot (Fig. 5) revealed that fennel has the least occurrence in our dataset while fruity is the highest occurring label. As apparent, the distribution is highly skewed implying… [+7196 chars]
High resolution images of microscopic samples can be obtained experimentally using Scanning Electron Transmission Microscopy (STEM). It is an effective method for examining the intricate structure of… [+7168 chars]
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