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Friday, August 29

Rob Taub

Antarctic researchers endured sexual harassment: Survey - NewsNation

Over 40% of the respondents to the survey said they experienced some form of sexual harassment or sexual assault while on research expeditions.

Thursday, August 28

Robert Lea

'A remarkable discovery': Astronomers find 1st exoplanet in multi-ring disk around star - Space

"Discovering this planet was an amazing experience!"

Wednesday, August 27

Keith Cooper

Why are our solar system planets tilted: These warped exoplanet-forming disks may offer clues - Space

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

Wednesday, August 27

Patrick Pester

James Webb telescope images reveal there's something strange with interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS - Live Science

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made its first observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing that the comet appears to be unusually rich in carbon dioxide.

Wednesday, August 27

Erin Frick

Chemists create new high-energy compound to fuel space flight - Phys.org

University at Albany chemists have created a new high-energy compound that could revolutionize rocket fuel and make space flights more efficient. Upon ignition, the compound releases more energy relative to its weight and volume compared to current fuels. In …

Wednesday, August 27

Humans and Neanderthals were interbreeding for a much longer period of time than we realized - Earth.com

The Skhul child fossil, about 140,000 years old, combines human-like and Neanderthal-like traits in the skull, jaw, and inner ear.

Wednesday, August 27

Skyler Ware

'Landmark moment': Scientists reveal the most detailed photo of a solar flare ever captured - Live Science

Record-breaking images from the world's largest solar telescope, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, reveal a solar flare in unprecedented detail.

Wednesday, August 27

Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours - Nature

Succulents become rechargeable night lights after injection with tiny phosphor particles.

Wednesday, August 27

Attosecond control and measurement of chiral photoionization dynamics - Nature

By introducing chiroptical spectroscopy with attosecond pulses, attosecond coherent control over photoelectron circular dichroism is demonstrated and measurements of chiral asymmetries in the forward–backward and angle-resolved photoionization delays of …

Wednesday, August 27

Mechanical confinement governs phenotypic plasticity in melanoma - Nature

Mechanical confinement of cancer cells at the tumour–microenvironment interface induces phenotype switching through chromatin remodelling by HMGB2, leading to a more invasive and drug-resistant state in melanoma.

Wednesday, August 27

Katrina Lee, Katherine Schauer

NASA Seeks Volunteers to Track Artemis II Mission - NASA (.gov)

NASA seeks volunteers to passively track the Artemis II Orion spacecraft as the crewed mission travels to the Moon and back to Earth.

Wednesday, August 27

The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature

The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—two key adaptations that underlie bipedalism.

Wednesday, August 27

Haematopoietic stem cell number is not solely defined by niche availability - Nature

Haematopoietic stem cell numbers are restricted at both systemic and local levels.

Wednesday, August 27

Two-billion-year transitional oxygenation of the Earth’s surface - Nature

A 2.5-billion-year record of oxygen isotopes in sedimentary sulfate reveals the transitional oxygenation of the Earth’s surface and provides constraints on the dynamic, lengthy co-oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans.

Wednesday, August 27