An illustration of Cape Copenhagen 2 million years ago.Drawing: Beth Zaiken A team of scientists has sequenced the oldest DNA to date, found in permafrost in the far north of Greenland. The DNA is 2 million years old, surpassing the previous oldest DNA record by a million years. The genetic material came from 41 sediment …
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Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International License. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has marked another first in its release of stunning images: a molecular and chemical portrait of the skies of a distant world. The telescope’s array of highly sensitive instruments was trained on the atmosphere …
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When stars are born, most of the time they arrive in the universe as twins. In the first stage of stellar creation, a large cloud of gas and dust collapses due to gravity, often breaking into pieces. If each piece collapses again, multiple stars will be born from the same gas cloud. These nascent suns …
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The Hubble Space Telescope, responsible for our current estimates of the age of the universe and the first detection of organic matter on an exoplanet, does a lot of science and is still alive. His latest masterpiece remixes an old hit – apparently a growing trend in science as well as music. Big Bada Boom …
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By Linda B. Glaser, Cornell University December 5, 2022 Researchers from Cornell University have revealed how a key mechanism in genes is controlled. Researchers at Cornell University have discovered a crucial mechanism in gene control through the study of yeast, a simple organism needed to produce beer and bread. Gene transcription, the complex process by …
The first large multi-ancestry genetic study of osteoarthritis, or osteoarthritis, found 10 new genetic loci associated with osteoarthritis, and the results showed that some of the regions associated with osteoarthritis are found robustly in every ancestry of the population studied. The first large multi-ancestry genetic study of osteoarthritis, or osteoarthritis, found 10 new genetic loci …
Graphic abstract. Credit: Nano-letters (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03563 A new study involving researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago has taken an important step in the synthesis of multifunctional photonic nanomaterials. In an article published in the journal Nano-letters, they report the synthesis of “giant” core-shell semiconductor quantum dots with record emissive lifetimes. Additionally, lifetimes …
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An artist’s impression of an active mantle plume – a large mass of hot, floating rock – rising from deep within Mars and pushing up Elysium Planitia, a plain in the planet’s northern lowlands. The volcanism at Elysium Planitia originates from the Cerberus Fossae, highlighted in red, a collection of young fissures that stretch more …
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ISouth of the Amazon, just at the crossroads of two dirt roads, is a small bar a little set back from the highway. There’s no name above the door because it’s part of a house, really, but everyone calls it Guiga’s bar, after its owner. Like many bars dotted around the area, Guiga’s is run …
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This illustration represents the exoplanet WASP-39b and its star. Credit: Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian New Webb Space Telescope observations of WASP-39b reveal a molecule never before seen in a planet’s atmosphere – sulfur dioxide – among other details. The telescope’s highly sensitive instrument array was trained on the atmosphere of WASP-39b, …
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