[ad_1] As a California high school student, Jamie Wright thought her family’s finances meant that college was out of reach. Now, the UO graduate student is the lead author of a paper that provides a reference map covering 1,600 years of human and climate impacts on soil in the Amazon. …
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[ad_1] Bonfire night celebrations contaminate our air with extremely high amounts of soot, scientists have found. Researchers from the University of Leeds tested the air quality during the Guy Fawkes Night events in the city and found that soot in the atmosphere was around 100 times its normal level. Soot, …
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[ad_1] NASA’s Juno spacecraft just captured images of colorful bursts of lightning-like electricity in Jupiter’s atmosphere. These phenomena, which include jellyfish-shaped “sprites” and glowing discs called “elves,” also occur high in the Earth’s atmosphere during thunderstorms. They were first documented in 1989. Scientists predicted that other lightning planets, such as …
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[ad_1] Titan, Saturn’s already rather weird moon, just got a little weirder. Astronomers have detected cyclopropenylidene (C3H2) in its atmosphere, an extremely rare carbon-based molecule that is so reactive that it can only exist on Earth under laboratory conditions. In fact, it is so rare that it has never been …
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[ad_1] The discovery of the extraordinary exoplanet LTT 9779b was first announced a month ago. Just 260 light-years away, the planet was immediately deemed an excellent candidate for the follow-up study of its curious atmosphere. But it turns out we didn’t even have to wait too long to find out …
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[ad_1] The first born of philosophical research: the Cardano protocol (ADA). Very similar to the PoE mechanism of Ethereum but with greater speed and efficiency, the platform offers more advanced features without abandoning the original idea of crypto-decentralization. While maintaining the balance of three large: Decentralization, Security and Speed, Cardano …
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