image: Pre-harvest rice germination occurred in different provinces of China in 2020 see After Credit: IGDB Seed dormancy is an important survival tool for plants as it allows them to cope with weather conditions that are not conducive to survival. At the same time, excessive dormancy can reduce cultivation time. In response, farmers often plant …
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Climate change is one of the greatest threats humanity has ever faced. With the rise of storms, fires, floods and droughts and the annual disappointment of international negotiations, it is easy to despair of the future severity of the climate. But exciting work is underway to find solutions. This is where the Prince of Wales …
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“Gravitational waves will bring us extremely accurate maps of black holes – maps of their space-time. These maps will clearly indicate whether or not we are dealing with black holes as described by general relativity,” said the winner of the Nobel Prize, Caltech. Kip Thorne. Scientists at Cardiff University’s Gravity Exploration Institute are using the …
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Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University have solved a decades-old mystery about how cells control their volume. Crowded rooms: how researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh solved a cellular mystery. A surreal video of stressed cells under a microscope has inspired a group of kidney physiologists and …
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Most galaxies are built around huge black holes. While many of them are relatively docile, like the one at the center of our Milky Way, some are ferocious – gobbling up surrounding material and releasing huge jets of extremely bright high-energy particles far into space. Using data from the recently deployed Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer …
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Most galaxies are built around huge black holes.— Reuters WASHINGTON: Most galaxies are built around huge black holes. While many of them are relatively docile, like the one at the center of our Milky Way, some are fierce surrounding materials and unleash huge, bright jets of high-energy particles far out into space. Using data from …
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Did you know: lightning can strike the same place several times? For example, the Empire State Building would be struck by lightning approximately 23 times per year. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain The odds of being struck by lightning are less than one in a million, but those odds dropped dramatically this month when more than …
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This illustration shows NASA’s IXPE spacecraft, right, observing blazar Markarian 501, left. A blazar is a black hole surrounded by a disk of gas and dust with a bright jet of high-energy particles pointed at Earth. The inset illustration shows high energy particles in the jet (blue). Credit: NASA/Pablo Garcia Blazars are among the brightest …
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Approximate steady state in the near field. Left: profile ω̅; right: θ̅ X. Credit: arXiv (2022). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2210.07191 The movement of fluids in nature, including the flow of water in our oceans, the formation of tornadoes in our atmosphere, and the airflow around airplanes, has long been described and simulated by what we calls the …
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most galaxies are built around huge black holes. While many of them are relatively docile, like the one at the center of our Milky Way, some are ferocious – gobbling up surrounding material and releasing huge, extremely bright jets of high-energy particles far out into space. Using data from …
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