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[ad_1] More than 40 years after its launch, the Voyager probe is still making discoveries. In a new study, a team of physicists led by the University of Iowa reports the first detection of electron bursts of cosmic rays accelerated by shockwaves originating from large solar flares. The detection, carried …

[ad_1] Scientists have created an evolutionary model to predict how animals should react in stressful situations. Almost all organisms have fast-acting stress responses, which help them respond to threats, but being stressed consumes energy and chronic stress can be harmful. The new study by an international team, which includes researchers …

[ad_1] A variety of glaciers, bays, domes, mountains and inlets in Antarctica have been named in honor of modern British scientists and explorers. In all, 28 locations within the British Antarctic Territory – a section of Antarctica claimed by the United Kingdom – were named after the British who made …

[ad_1] Astronomers from the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium today published the most detailed catalog ever made of the stars of the Milky Way. The new dataset, called Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), contains detailed information – stellar positions, movement, brightness and colors – on more than 1.8 …

[ad_1] A Chinese spacecraft carrying the country’s first lunar samples left the moon late Thursday, China’s National Space Administration announced. This represented the first ever Chinese spacecraft to take off from an extraterrestrial body. China’s Chang’e-5 spacecraft, consisting of an orbiter, lander, ascender and returner, was launched on November 24, …

[ad_1] The smallest primate in the world reveals the incredible preservation of our visual system through millions of years of evolution. The gray mouse lemur, the smallest species of primate, has excellent eyesight. More than a fifth of its cerebral cortex is devoted to visual processing to accommodate enough pixel …

[ad_1] Credit: Public Domain CC0 One of the reasons prey species migrate is to avoid predators over long time scales, this ultimately has a powerful effect on the balance between predator and prey in a given ecosystem. This is especially true if the migration is seasonal and the predator does …

[ad_1] Written by AZoCleantechDecember 3, 2020 As the electronic tags released in the Ganges River show, plastic pollution can travel thousands of kilometers in a matter of months. Emily Duncan releases a bottle. Image credit: Sara Hylton NGS. GPS and satellite tags were added to plastic bottles and released in …

[ad_1] Credit: University of Gothenburg Photosynthesis is the main source of energy for nearly all life on earth. A new study, published in Nature, provide new insights into how evolution has optimized the light-guided movements of electrons in photosynthesis to achieve near-perfect overall efficiency. Almost all life on earth has …

[ad_1] The Chinese spacecraft managed to collect lunar material. China has invested trillions of rupees in special costs for a military-run space exploration program. The hope is that they will have a manned space station by 2022 and plan to send people to the moon. In this context, the Chinese …