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Nov 12, 2024 by News Staff. The standard model predicted that the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming the popular hypothesis that invisible dark matter helped the earliest stars and galaxies clump together. Instead, the oldest galaxies are large and bright, in ...
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Oct 29, 2024 · New Oviraptorosaur Species Discovered in China. Nov 5, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro. A new genus and species of early-diverging oviraptorosaurian dinosaur has been identified from two specimens found in Inner Mongolia, China. Life reconstruction of Yuanyanglong bainian. Image credit: Sci.News / Ddinodan. “Oviraptorosauria is a group of ...
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Nov 11, 2024 by News Staff. An accurate description of low-density nuclear matter is crucial for explaining the physics of neutron star crusts, according to a team of theoretical physicists led by Argonne National Laboratory’s Dr. Alessandro Lovato. Fore et al. study neutron star crusts by simulating neutron matter then adding ‘hidden ...
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Oct 28, 2024 · Nov 6, 2024 by News Staff. DNA methylation is one of several epigenetic mechanisms crucial for regulating gene expression in eukaryotic organisms. Arabidopsis thaliana. Image credit: Carl Davies, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0. DNA methylation is a normal biological process in living cells wherein small chemical groups called methyl groups are added to DNA.
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Oct 16, 2024 · Nov 7, 2024 by News Staff. A team of scientists from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, TU Delft, and Caltech has developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons in the Solar System. Importantly, they’ve looked at the effects of body tides on objects that don’t have a ...
Scientists Unveil Nature’s Missing Evolutionary Law | Sci.News
Oct 18, 2023 · Charles Darwin applied the theory of evolution to life on Earth, but not to other massively complex systems like planets, stars, atoms and minerals. Wong et al. identified a missing aspect of that theory that applies to essentially everything. Image credit: NASA. “This was a true collaboration between scientists and philosophers to address ...
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Oct 8, 2024 · Nov 1, 2024 by News Staff. A research team led by John Innes Centre scientists has sequenced and annotated the chromosome-scale genome assembly of grass pea (Lathyrus sativus), a promising legume crop with tolerance to a wide range of stress factors, and potential for climate-resilient agriculture. Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus).
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Oct 7, 2024 by News Staff. New research by paleontologists from the University of Leicester, the University of Birmingham and Liverpool John Moores University demonstrates an unexpectedly... Paleontology news from across the world provided by Sci.News, an independent source for the latest news on science.
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Oct 25, 2024 by News Staff. Dietary interventions with pistachios — a bioavailable source of the xanthophyll lutein — are efficacious in increasing macular pigment optical density (MPOD) in healthy adults, according to a new study from Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center. Pistachios are the only nut that provides a measurable source ...