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Using a new detection method, UC Riverside scientists found a massive amount of methane, a super-potent greenhouse gas, coming from wildfires—a source not currently being accounted for by state air quality managers. Methane warms the planet 86 times more powerfully than carbon dioxide over the course of 20 years, and it will be difficult for […]

PCB has been banned in most countries since the 1970s, but that doesn’t mean it no longer exists. Now, deep-sea researchers report that they have found PCB at the bottom of the Atacama Trench in the Pacific Ocean. During their expedition to the deep-sea trench, the research team retrieved sediment cores and analyzed them for […]

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, providing high-resolution images and valuable data on the early universe’s galaxies. This information aids in understanding galaxy reionization and was made public for diverse analysis and refining data analysis techniques. On October 11, 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spent over 20 hours observing […]

UC Riverside and Yale University team sequences and mines genome of the pathogen Babesia duncani. Scientists have sequenced the genome of Babesia duncani, a pathogen causing the malaria-like disease babesiosis, and identified potential inhibitors for more effective treatments. ‘Tis the season for hiking now that spring has arrived and temperatures are on the upswing. But […]

Researchers found a connection between neuropeptides regulating food intake in jellyfish and fruit flies, despite 600 million years of divergence. The GLWamide/MIP system controlling feeding behavior was found to be functionally conserved between the two species, revealing deep evolutionary origins of a conserved satiety signal. Decades’ worth of research has shown that the motivation to […]

Cardiac research to advance human health on Earth and in space was the main research objective aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, April 11. The Expedition 69 crew members are also packing a cargo craft for its return to Earth and preparing for a series of spacewalks. Flight Engineers Woody Hoburg of NASA […]

To successfully cooperate with humans on manual tasks, robots should be able to grasp and manipulate a variety of objects without dropping or damaging them. Recent research efforts in the field of robotics have thus focused on developing tactile sensors and controllers that could provide robots with the sense of touch and bring their object […]

Researchers at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Vienna recently devised a universal mechanism to invert the evolution of a qubit with a high probability of success. This protocol, outlined in Physical Review Letters, can propagate any target qubit back to the state it was in at a specific time in […]

A bioinformatics boot camp for high schoolers at Skoltech turned into a venue for the latest chapter in the ongoing contest between humans and artificial intelligence in science. Having earlier resolved a key 50-year-old problem of structural bioinformatics, the breakthrough AI program AlphaFold proved inapplicable to another challenge researchers in this field are faced with. […]

The traditionally cumbersome yet widely-used Birch reduction can now be carried out in a mere minute in air using an optimized mechanochemical approach. The Birch reduction is a reaction commonly used to make medicines and bioactive compounds, but the laborious process typically requires that chemists handle liquid ammonia, use cryogenic temperatures, and carry out time-consuming […]