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Using Namibia’s High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS), astronomers have recorded the most powerful and longest gamma-ray afterglow from one of the brightest explosions in the universe,…

Nishi-no-Shima (Japanese: 西之島, “western island”), a volcanic island in the Ogasawara Arc about 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, Japan, erupted above sea level in November…

Magnesium sulfide is an inorganic compound with the formula MgS. It is a colorless crystalline material but often is encountered in an impure form that…

Brazil’s grain production more than quadrupled between 1980 and 2016, and the country is now the world’s largest soybean exporter and second-largest corn exporter. Cropland…

The term “net operating income (NOI)” is widely used in real estate accounting to refer to the methodology for calculating a commercial property’s profitability. The…

Lalande 21185 is a red dwarf in the constellation of Ursa Major. The star is located only about 8.3 light-years away in the southeastern corner…

Duke University engineers have demonstrated a prototype X-ray scanning machine that reveals not only an object’s shape but also its molecular composition. With its unprecedented…

Mirco Kaponig and colleagues in physics and nanointegration in Germany detailed the fundamental concept of contact electrification between two metals in a new report published…

Ethylbenzene is a colorless, flammable liquid with a gasoline-like odor; it is an organic chemical with the formula C6H5CH2CH3. It can be found in both…

Elbaite is a sodium-lithium-aluminum borosilicate mineral of the tourmaline group, prized as a gemstone. It is sodium, lithium, aluminum boro-silicate, with the chemical composition Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6Si6O18(BO3)3(OH)4,…

Scientists have created polypeptide-based materials that can be used as vectors to deliver gene therapies. The platform is the first of its kind, allowing vectors…

The term distributable net income (DNI) refers to the portion of a trust’s income that is distributed to the beneficiaries. The maximum taxable amount received…