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The jet is longer than the galaxy that contains it, stretching for 5,000 light-years. Scientists have known that black holes emanate jets, but this image is the first to show the jet's base connecting to the black hole's accretion disk, or the
Liu Chun, a doctor of medicine at the University of Tokyo, said that in spring, we should pay attention to nourishing and protecting the liver, and dandelion is one of the best ingredients to use. Dandelion's medicinal attributes come from its r
Researchers in Hong Kong recently discovered a new species of box jellyfish living in a brackish shrimp pond - the first-ever box jellyfish to be found in Chinese waters. Named Tripedalia maipoensis after the Mai Po Nature Reserve in Hong Kong w
The InSight lander was sent to Mars to study the planet's interior, mostly by way of marsquakes. As you may have guessed, these are seismic tremors similar to earthquakes on our home planet, but because Mars doesn't have plate tectonics they're
It's the tell-tale sign of aging that men and women have tried to cover for generations. But scientists are one step closer to finding a way to reverse greying hairs without resorting to regular trips to the hairdresser. A team of researchers
With a large blade resembling a bread knife - but without the jagged edges - Stephanie Forkel slices through the human brain lying in front of her on the dissection table. A first-year university student, Forkel is clad in an apron and protective g
One of the most basic concepts of biological science is that multicellular organisms develop from a single-cell zygote into a creature with a unique genome. The only exceptions to this rule have been chimeras, which are generally considered accidents
With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know. Although two atoms can easily have their electron wavefunctions overlap and bind together, this is only genera
Dinosaurs have always seemed larger than life. They lived during a time when almost everything seemed bigger - "titanic herbivores stretching more than 80 feet long were not uncommon, and nine-ton carnivores had to feast on hundreds of pounds of fles
Ball lightening also shows us activity that supports decission making. So maybe we just need to make the leap and accept that plasma all by itself is able to self compute. Considering it represents over ninety percent of all mass out there, it is t
Adding to the confusion is the fact that accounts of lift exist on two separate levels of abstraction: the technical and the nontechnical. They are complementary rather than contradictory, but they differ in their aims. One exists as a strictly mathe
Given the stakes, a small community of physicists has been doggedly hunting for any asymmetry in the shape of the electron for the past few decades. The experiments are now so sensitive that if an electron were the size of Earth, they could detect a
Meanwhile King Charles II was fond of eating ambergris with eggs. In 1685, Robert May described it as "both woody and floral," with a smell reminiscent of "leaf litter on a forest floor and of the delicate, frilly undersides of mushrooms that g
The US's National Cancer Institute (NCI) has helped launch a phase 3 clinical trial, the Pragmatica-Lung Study, investigating the use of a two-drug treatment for people with advanced (stage 4) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). What makes this tri
When you think of feathers, you probably think of their ability to repel water. Not so the belly feathers of the male desert sandgrouse. He can visit a watering hole, absorb water into his feathers, fly more than 12 mi (20 km) across the desert, and
Thus it appears that a mass of NNPs carries charged ions down to toward the ground for discharge. When it hits the ground it opens a live surface for electrons to flow back up the column. If the column breaks up, the NNPs will drain into the ground
The paradox part of the Grandfather Paradox occurs when a time traveler creates a self-contradicting scenario where effect precedes cause. In this example, if you kill your grandfather before he has kids, one of your parents is never born. Conseque
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The secret to fixing a fatal flaw at the heart of quantum theory may lie in three obscure textbooks from the 1980s. But physicists can be forgiven for overlooking the potentially transformative ideas within, as the volumes appear simultaneously amate
Usually when he created tiles, they would either settle into some repeating pattern or fail to tile much of the screen. But the hat tile seemed to do neither. Smith cut out 30 copies of the hat on cardstock and assembled them on a table. Then he cut
It appears that ball lightening is a contained ball of this stuff surfaced with hot electrons held neutral on the surface. They are not flying apart at all. And like hydrogen, it can pass through solid walls. We do not store hydrogen very well.
However, the deadly plant is of increasing interest to scientists for its array of potential health benefits. Already studied for cancer-fighting and arthritis-treating properties, researchers have also discovered compounds with anti-aging and wound-
"Pesticide residues are an unavoidable part of the environment due to their extensive applications in agriculture. As wheat is a major cultivated cereal, the presence of pesticide residues in wheat is a real concern to human health. Reduction in p
Does the technology exist under now a different name?
Understand that Cloud cosmology projects three types of neutral matter. I use the word neutral only because the word is convenient and allows us then to identify axis as separate. Neutral assumes mathematical continuity which is not real. We are n
Biologics - vaccines, antibodies, stem cells, blood and other blood products - are derived from living organisms and require cold conditions to prevent heat breaking down the protein and destroying it. One that relies on this prohibitive cold-c
Julian Jaynes was living out of a couple of suitcases in a Princeton dorm in the early 1970s. He must have been an odd sight there among the undergraduates, some of whom knew him as a lecturer who taught psychology, holding forth in a deep baritone v
While astronomers are baffled, they speculate the prominence has something to do with the reversal of the sun's magnetic field that happens once every solar cycle. The size of this polar vortex was absolutely astounding. It is being reported
Creating synthetic proteins is a promising avenue of study, but could we take shortcuts on nature's blueprint and make more efficient versions? Scientists at UC Berkeley have found that simpler combos of synthetic building blocks can make for prote
The new experimental observations, published in November, 2022 in Nature, joined related surprising results from 2021 in deepening a 35-year-old mystery about the internal structure of the proton. Protons, neutrons and electrons are the basic constit
