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Covering the latest news in all fields of science. Publisher @society4science. See also @SN_Explores.
Scientists have finally spotted the source of a weird, upside-down kind of lightning called a blue jet.- Data collected by four flights of NASA aircraft in different regions of the northern hemisphere in 2016 and 2017 confirmed that stratospheric air intrusion is a source of new particles and may be the most productive place for these particles on Earth.
- In the desert, an ass hole is a welcome sight for many parched creatures.
- Finding such a huge supermassive black hole so early in the universe’s history challenges astronomers’ understanding of how these cosmic beasts first formed.
- Scientists made the known element 116 with a beam of titanium atoms, a technique that could be used to make the undiscovered element 120.
- This robot can do push-ups. It even 'sweats' to keep the motors of its muscles cool. ow.ly/tChR30hnO1e
GIF - When hit with laser light (illustrated, red), a cuprate containing copper and oxygen atoms (blue and red spheres) expels magnetic fields (blue). That effect strengthens the case for light-induced superconductivity in such materials. sciencenews.org/article/light-…
- Happy 76th birthday to the world's most famous living physicist, Stephen Hawking!
- In long COVID patients with brain fog (brain scan at right), dye injected into the bloodstream tends to leak into the brain (see colored speckles) more so than in people without brain fog (left). sciencenews.org/article/long-c…
- BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
- Some scientists claim that certain materials, when hit with intense, ultrashort laser pulses, can briefly become superconductors at temperatures far above their normal limit.
- The intense gravitational pull of a black hole bends the light around it. #blackholeweek sciencenews.org/article/nasa-n…
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