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[ad_1] IMAGE: Cartoon depicting a watch looking for a view of dark matter More Credit: Hanacek / NIST JILA researchers used a state-of-the-art atomic clock to narrow the search for elusive dark matter, an example of how continuous improvements in watches have value beyond timekeeping. Older atomic clocks operating at …

[ad_1] It’s a simple unanswered question. Even if humans stopped polluting the world overnight, scientists say it would take many decades for Earth’s climate to reach a new balance. This is largely related to how heat is stored in the world’s oceans, which in turn can have an influence on …

[ad_1] A glacier that has held an Alaskan slope in place for centuries is melting, releasing the ground below in what can be described as a slow-motion landslide, the researchers say. But there is also the possibility of a real landslide that could cause a devastating tsunami. In a study …

[ad_1] Water could be a byproduct of the formation of all rocky planets, a new study proposes. The Curiosity rover on Mars. Image credits NASA / JPL-CALTECH. From everything we know about life today, water appears to be a key ingredient. Life on our planet spawned and lived its first …

[ad_1] After the Leonid meteors in 2020. We witnessed an amazing astronomical spectacle in the early morning skies over the Kuwait desert in November 1998. That year, the Leonid meteors performed in a spectacular sight, surpassing about 1,000 meteors per hour near dawn. In most years, however, Leo groans with …

[ad_1] Universal single residue terminal labels for imaging fluorescent live cells of microproteins. Credit: Simon Elsasser The SciLifeLab Simon Elsässer laboratory at the Karolinska Institutet reports a method that allows for the fluorescent labeling of proteins with the small perturbation – a single amino acid – genetically added to both …

[ad_1] A coral reef in New Caledonia. Credit: Oliver Selmoni, EPFL The oceans are a key factor in the health of the planet, absorbing over 90% of the solar energy. They demonstrate the extent to which rising temperatures threaten coral reefs and other vital ecosystems that support biodiversity. In 2016 …

[ad_1] The oceans are a key factor in the health of the planet, absorbing over 90% of the solar energy. They demonstrate the extent to which rising temperatures threaten coral reefs and other vital ecosystems that support biodiversity. In 2016 and 2017, a sharp rise in surface temperatures in the …

[ad_1] The European Space Agency (ESA) has formally adopted Ariel, the first mission dedicated to the study of the nature, formation and evolution of exoplanets. More than 50 institutes from 17 countries, including the University of Oxford, have worked over the past five years to develop the scientific objectives and …

[ad_1] An ancient tomb in Austria may represent the oldest twin burial ever recorded, according to a new study. The 31,000-year-old burial dates back to the Upper Paleolithic (a period from 40,000 to 10,000 years ago), also known as the Old Stone Age. One of the babies died shortly after …