Using Ion Soft Landing to Tackle Challenges Involving Hard Energy
Every piece of technology that keeps our world running demands on-demand energy. To power electronic devices and illuminate buildings, energy must be stored and made…
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Ethnic Studies Boost Student Engagement and Graduation Rates in High School
Ethnic studies are a multidisciplinary field that includes sociology, psychology, history, anthropology, criminal justice, and legal studies. Racism, colonialism, global economic and political systems, ecological…
For the First Time in More Than 250 Million Years, a Lizard Regenerates a Perfect Tail with the Help of Stem Cells
Lizards can regrow their severed tails, making them the closest living relative to humans who can do so. The new structure, however, is an incomplete…
Isosaccharinic Acid – a Six-carbon Sugar
Isosaccharinic acid (ISA) is a six-carbon sugar-acid formed by calcium hydroxide reacting with lactose and other carbohydrates. It is of interest because it can form…
Student from Mauritius’ Explanation of Molecular Forces Wins Breakthrough Junior Challenge
Amber Kwok, 18, of Mauritius, won the sixth annual Breakthrough Junior Challenge. The competition asks 13 to 18-year-olds to submit a three-minute movie illustrating a…
NASA Is About To Open 50-Year-Old Sealed Lunar Sample from Apollo 17
Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan took a sample of lunar soil from the Taurus-Littrow Valley on the Moon in December 1972 and returned it to…
Monkeys Massacre 200 Puppies in Revenge After Dogs Allegedly Kill Infant Monkey
In the Indian town of Lavool, almost 200 pups were slaughtered in purported “revenge” killings after the dogs allegedly killed a newborn monkey. Two simians…
Material from Asteroid Ryugu Starts To Give Up Secrets of Early Solar System
Material from the Japanese Hayabusa 2 mission to Asteroid (162173) Ryugu returned to Earth just over a year ago. The first two studies reporting on…
Listen To the Peculiar Sounds of Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
NASA’s Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Ganymede, Jupiter’s biggest moon, in June of last year. The scientists were able to get the closest…
Life in the Clouds of Venus Is Theoretically Possible, Future Missions Will Look for Signs
Since the phosphine discovery last year, there has been increased interest in Venus as a world with the possibility for life, not merely as an…
Giant Ancient Millipede Breaks Record For Largest Ever Arthropod
A gigantic ancient millipede has stolen the biggest millipede ever discovered. The fossil, which was discovered on a beach in Northern England, also holds another…
Intact Dinosaur Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Egg
A completely articulated dinosaur embryo has discovered inside a fossilized egg that had been accumulating dust in a museum’s storage room for almost a decade.…
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