Environment Feb 21, 2024

Study finds home heating fuel is direct source of sulfate in Fairbanks's winter air

Use of residential heating fuel is the main contributor of primary sulfate pollution in Fairbanks's wintertime air, according to research conducted during an international science program in the community in 2022.

Earth Sciences Feb 15, 2024

How do oceans start to close? New study suggests the Atlantic may 'soon' enter its declining phase

A new study, resorting to computational models, predicts that a subduction zone currently below the Gibraltar Strait will propagate further inside the Atlantic and contribute to forming an Atlantic subduction system—an ...

Plants & Animals Mar 5, 2024

Fossil named 'Attenborough's strange bird' was the first of its kind without teeth

No birds alive today have teeth. But that wasn't always the case; many early fossil birds had beaks full of sharp, tiny teeth. In a paper in the journal Cretaceous Research, scientists have described a new species of fossil ...

Nanomaterials 2 hours ago

Electronic device thermal management made simpler and slightly better

Dr. Cheol-Woo Ahn, leading a research team at the Department of Functional Ceramics within the Ceramic Materials Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), has developed the world's first heat dissipation ...

Social Sciences Mar 13, 2024

Photo project results in positive change in attitudes towards people experiencing homelessness with a pet

In a new study, people experiencing homelessness with a pet documented their lives in photos and participated in interviews, revealing their experiences and potentially informing support initiatives. Gemina Garland-Lewis ...

Astronomy Feb 14, 2024

eROSITA X-ray sky survey measurements show consistency with the cosmic microwave background

The analysis of how galaxy clusters, the largest objects in the universe, evolve over cosmic time has yielded precise measurements of the total matter content and its clumpiness, report scientists of the German eROSITA consortium, ...

Plants & Animals Mar 7, 2024

Sharks, turtles and other sea creatures face greater risk from industrial fishing than previously thought

My colleagues and I mapped activity in the northeast Pacific of "dark" fishing vessels—boats that turn off their location devices or lose signal for technical reasons. In our new study published in Science Advances, we ...

Cell & Microbiology Feb 27, 2024

Microbial comics: RNA as a common language, presented in extracellular speech-bubbles

Single-celled organisms, such as bacteria and archaea, have developed many ways to communicate with each other. For example, they might use tiny so-called extracellular vesicles (EVs)—membrane-enveloped packages smaller ...

Archaeology Mar 7, 2024

Rabana-Merquly: Was the mountain fortress also a Parthian-era sanctuary?

Besides being a fortress for military use, the ancient mountain settlement of Rabana-Merquly in modern Iraqi Kurdistan could have also been a 'sanctuary' dedicated to the ancient Persian water goddess Anahita. Architectural ...

Astronomy Feb 22, 2024

LHAASO discovers giant ultra-high-energy gamma-ray bubble, identifying the first super PeVatron

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has discovered a giant ultra-high-energy gamma-ray bubble structure in the Cygnus star-forming region, which is the first time that the origin of cosmic rays with energy ...

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