Pure Science (2024)

29/04/2024

Climate change, Brexit threaten to wilt Dutch tulips
https://purescience.news/article?id=365690

Arjan Smit gazes out over his tulip fields, a riot of red and pink flowers he has cultivated all his adult life and part of a family business his grandfather started in 1940.

29/04/2024

Energy Scientists Have Unraveled the Mystery of Gold’s Glow
https://purescience.news/article?id=365699

Researchers at EPFL have created the first detailed model explaining the quantum-mechanical effects that cause photoluminescence in thin gold films, a breakthrough that could advance...

29/04/2024

Quantum computing breakthrough could happen with just hundreds, not millions, of qubits using new error-correction system
https://purescience.news/article?id=365701

Scientists have designed a physical qubit that behaves as an error-correcting

29/04/2024

How Foreign Governments Sway Voters with Online Manipulation
https://purescience.news/article?id=365703

Almost half of the world population heads to elections in 2024. To counter disinformation activities aimed against the voters on social media, we must first understand how they work

29/04/2024

What happens to a body after death?
https://purescience.news/article?id=365713

A dead body can tell us a lot. By monitoring how corpses decompose, we can increase our understanding of the subtleties of the process and improve the accuracy with which we can locate and identify dead people, and determine their time of death. After death, the body breaks down into simpler organic...

29/04/2024

Move Over, Cicadas: These Living Things ‘Go Dark’ For a Long Time, Too
https://purescience.news/article?id=365714

From frogs to orchids, many organisms go dormant or move underground for lengthy stints

29/04/2024

Alarming Findings: Atrial Fibrillation Is More Common and Dangerous Than Previously Thought
https://purescience.news/article?id=365709

Atrial fibrillation (Afib), a common type of arrhythmia that is on the rise in people under the age of 65, is more dangerous in this...

29/04/2024

More than 2 million gazelle still roam the Mongolian steppe
https://purescience.news/article?id=365712

A study published in Oryx sheds light on the status of Mongolian gazelle populations across Mongolia, Russia, and China, revealing both successes and challenges in the conservation efforts of this iconic species

29/04/2024

Mysterious warrior clan’s marriage practices revealed
https://purescience.news/article?id=365711

DNA analysis of more than 400 skeletons, covering 9 generations, has allowed researchers to map out the relationships within a mysterious warrior clan. The Avars were a warrior culture which lived in the Carpathian Basin in modern-day Hungary about 1,500 years ago. The core of the Avar society was a...

29/04/2024

'Cat nights' are here as Leo, Leo minor, and Lynx constellations prowl the evening sky
https://purescience.news/article?id=365706

Along with Leo, there are two other members of the cat family that are currently well situated and close together in the evening sky: Leo Minor, the Smaller Lion, and Lynx.

29/04/2024

The Download: inside the US defense tech aid package, and how AI is improving vegan cheese
https://purescience.news/article?id=365707

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s the defense tech at the center of US aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan After weeks of drawn-out congressional debate over how much the United Stat...

29/04/2024

What better time than Air Quality Awareness Week to give our lungs a break
https://purescience.news/article?id=365708

Nowadays, considerable time and energy is devoted to combatting climate change and global warming directly — which is a good thing. At the same time, significant time and energy is spent on dealing with climate change/global warming fallout — and that isn’t. Making worse those matters, it has ...

29/04/2024

Automated machine learning robot unlocks new potential for genetics research
https://purescience.news/article?id=365366

University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have constructed a robot that uses machine learning to fully automate a complicated microinjection process used in genetic research.

29/04/2024

Researchers advance detection of gravitational waves to study collisions of neutron stars and black holes
https://purescience.news/article?id=365387

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering co-led a new study by an international team that will improve the detection of gravitational waves—ripples in space and time.

29/04/2024

From Theory to Therapy: MIT’s Computational Breakthrough in Protein Optimization
https://purescience.news/article?id=365698

MIT researchers plan to search for proteins that could be used to measure electrical activity in the brain. To engineer proteins with useful functions, researchers...

29/04/2024

Unveiling a new quantum frontier: Frequency-domain entanglement
https://purescience.news/article?id=365383

Scientists have introduced a form of quantum entanglement known as frequency-domain photon number-path entanglement. This advance in quantum physics involves an innovative tool called a frequency beam splitter, which has the unique ability to alter the frequency of individual photons with a 50% succ...

29/04/2024

Here's how life would actually mutate after nuclear fallout
https://purescience.news/article?id=365378

Perhaps more than any other form of apocalypse screenwriters indulge, the idea of nuclear devastation is both fascinating for viewers and a terrifyingly real possibility. From Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to Chornobyl and Fukushima, humanity has already witnessed the cost of the nuclear power we now poss...

29/04/2024

The giant sheep helping Tajikistan weather climate change
https://purescience.news/article?id=365689

In the hills outside the Tajik capital Dushanbe, shepherd Bakhtior Sharipov was watching over his flock of giant Hissar sheep.

29/04/2024

Probing the effects of interplanetary space on asteroid Ryugu
https://purescience.news/article?id=365694

Analyzing samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu by the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has revealed new insights into the magnetic and physical bombardment environment of interplanetary space. The results of the study, carried out by Professor Yuki Kimura at Hokkaido University and....

29/04/2024

Mysterious Roman dodecahedron to go on display in Lincoln
https://purescience.news/article?id=365693

There are no known descriptions or drawings of object in Roman literature, making its purpose unclear They are known as one of archaeology’s great enigmas – hollow 12-sided objects from the Roman era with no known purpose or use. Only 33 of these mysterious dodecahedrons have ever been found in ...

29/04/2024

Micrometeoroid Bombardment and Magnetic Fields: Decoding the Effects of Interplanetary Space on Asteroid Ryugu
https://purescience.news/article?id=365700

Samples reveal evidence of changes experienced by the surface of asteroid Ryugu, some probably due to micrometeoroid bombardment. Analyzing samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu...

29/04/2024

Highly precise atomic clocks could soon get even better. Here's how
https://purescience.news/article?id=365695

Superradiant atoms could help us measure time more precisely than ever before, a theory developed with the aid of the great-grandson of the

29/04/2024

Study raises questions about media used for in vitro tests on nanomaterials
https://purescience.news/article?id=365696

Multiomics profiling details how biomolecular corona that form in conventional cell culture differ to those that form in human plasma

29/04/2024

NASA Uses Small Engine to Enhance Sustainable Jet Research
https://purescience.news/article?id=365697

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The DGEN380 Aero-Propulsion Research Turbofan (DART) is a small-scale jet engine NASA uses to test new aviation technology. DART is seen here inside its host facility, the Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Laboratory at NASA’s G...

29/04/2024

New rock art discoveries in Eastern Sudan tell a tale of ancient cattle, the 'green Sahara' and climate catastrophe
https://purescience.news/article?id=365422

The hyper-arid desert of Eastern Sudan, the Atbai Desert, seems like an unlikely place to find evidence of ancient cattle herders. But in this dry environment, my new research has found rock art over 4,000 years old that depicts cattle.

29/04/2024

‘Unlike anything today’: Gippsland fossil unlocks secrets of kangaroo that died out 46,000 years ago
https://purescience.news/article?id=365681

Abrupt extinction of short-faced kangaroo a reminder to protect the environment, palaeontologists sayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updates When a caver and Gippsland local, Joshua Van Dyk, stumbled across the fossilised remains of a kangaroo species that had been extinct for about 4...

29/04/2024

Spiraling Secrets: Unveiling the X-Ray Mysteries of Dwarf Galaxy IC 776
https://purescience.news/article?id=365685

IC 776, a dwarf galaxy located in the Virgo galaxy cluster, is the subject of intensive study due to its emission of X-rays, offering insights...

29/04/2024

T. rex not as smart as previously claimed, scientists find
https://purescience.news/article?id=365688

Dinosaurs were as smart as reptiles but not as intelligent as monkeys, as former research suggests. An international team of paleontologists, behavioral scientists and neurologists have re-examined brain size and structure in dinosaurs and concluded they behaved more like crocodiles and lizards.

29/04/2024

Elevator or stairs? Your choice could boost longevity, study finds
https://purescience.news/article?id=365692

A new study shows people who are in the habit of climbing stairs are less likely to die from heart disease compared to those who don't. Stair climbers also had a slight boost in longevity. (Image credit: lingqi xie)

29/04/2024

Australian project to print a fix for faulty eye and brain cells
https://purescience.news/article?id=365687

“Imagine a world that we could simply ‘print’ neurological diseases out of existence using bio inks and cheap desktop printers.” Well hello future, or at least one that Matthew Griffith, a biophysicist at the University of South Australia, is willing to entertain. He heads up a cross-institu...

Pure Science

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

29/04/2024

Address

Website

Alerts

Shortcuts

Share