[ad_1] First introduced in wide use in the mid 1920sth century, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has since become an indispensable technique for examining materials down to their atoms, revealing molecular structure and other details without interfering with the material itself. “It is a widely used technique in chemical analysis, material …
Read More »Cosmic flashes come in all different sizes
[ad_1] Chalmers University of Technology Studying the site of a spectacular stellar explosion observed in April 2020, a team of scientists led by Chalmers used four European radio telescopes to confirm that astronomy’s most exciting puzzle is about to be solved. Fast radio bursts, the unpredictable millisecond radio signals seen …
Read More »Glycine in space produced by dark chemistry
[ad_1] An international team of laboratory astrophysicists and astrochemical modellers has shown that glycine, the simplest amino acid and an important building block of life, can form under the harsh conditions that govern chemistry in space. The results were published this week in Nature Astronomy and show that glycine and …
Read More »The new technology allows for a more precise view of the smallest nanoparticles
[ad_1] Scientists reported a new optical imaging technology, which uses a glass side coated with gold nanodiscs that allows them to monitor changes in light transmission and determine the characteristics of nanoparticles as small as 25 nanometers in diameter. Current cutting-edge techniques have clear limitations when it comes to visualizing …
Read More »Former bottom piece of the Pacific Ocean taken deep beneath China
[ad_1] In a study that gives new meaning to the term “rock bottom,” seismic researchers discovered the underside of a rock slab of the Earth’s surface layer, or lithosphere, which was dragged more than 400 miles below north China. from the tectonic subduction process. A graph showing the convective heat …
Read More »The asteroid Apophis has little chance of hitting us in 2068. Scientists are making plans
[ad_1] It is comforting to imagine that with space and ground-based telescopes pointed at the cosmos, we would be able to spot any dangerously sized asteroid heading towards us a mile away, with plenty of time to paint them white or detonate them. But for every asteroid we see coming …
Read More »Scientists have deciphered how Mars lost its water and continues to leak
[ad_1] (MENAFN – IANS) Washington, November 15 (IANS) Scientists have further decoded the phenomenon that caused Mars to lose the equivalent of a global ocean of water up to hundreds of feet deep in billions of years. Scientists using an instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft …
Read More »Scientists have deciphered how Mars lost its water and continues to leak
[ad_1] (MENAFN – IANS) Washington, November 15 (IANS) Scientists have further decoded the phenomenon that caused Mars to lose the equivalent of a global ocean of water up to hundreds of feet deep in billions of years. Scientists using an instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft …
Read More »UK-led space telescope to unravel the mysteries of the cosmos
[ad_1] Its mission is to understand the links between a planet’s chemistry and its environment by plotting approximately 1,000 known planets outside our Solar System, providing scientists with a complete picture of what exoplanets are made of, how they formed and how they formed. will evolve. The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared …
Read More »Reef regeneration trial underway on the Great Barrier Reef
[ad_1] An innovative, multi-stakeholder reef restoration project that uses fragments of loose coral to build new stable areas of the reef’s live habitat kicks off this week on Green Island on the Great Barrier Reef. The trial is a collaboration between the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Queensland Parks …
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