Nature has no shortage of patterns, from spots on leopards to stripes on zebras and hexagons…
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Dwarf galaxies stripped of stars prove to be the missing link in the formation of rare ultra-compact dwarf galaxies
Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope, one-half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab,…
Temperature increase triggers viral infection: Research maps what happens on an atomic level
Researchers at Lund University, together with colleagues at the NIST Synchrotron Facility in the U.S., have…
Overcoming the climate crisis with trade-based strategies
Global warming is making weather patterns more extreme and increasing inequalities across regions. However, economic growth…
How do bacteria actually become resistant to antibiotics?
“What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger,” originally coined by Friedrich Nietzsche in 1888, is a…
Boom in space tourism threatens to boost the amounts of space junk and climate emissions
Commercial companies are increasingly becoming involved in transporting astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), as…
Over the past six years, governments proposed launching more than 1 million satellites, but where will they all go?
In September 2021, Rwanda announced that it was planning to launch over 300,000 satellites. Three months…
How unionization is empowering Jamaican domestic workers to demand decent work
In thousands of households across Jamaica, domestic workers do the work of cooking, cleaning, gardening and…
Image: Earth through a 2-mm lens
A distant, partly shadowed Earth, as viewed from a 6,000-km-altitude orbit. This unusual image was acquired…
Research overcomes major obstacle for quantum sensor development
Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) have removed a key obstacle for development of extremely…