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Invention

Scientists designed a cosmic radio detector to discover dark matter in 15 years

Pranjal Malewar

Cosmic radio!

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Technology

Scientists just discovered a brand new ‘Olo’ color

Pranjal Malewar

New insight into the nature of human sight and vision loss.

Space

Half of the universe’s missing matter found

Amit Malewar

New measurements of the diffuse ionized hydrogen surrounding galaxies account for missing mass.

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Space

Fast radio burst found in outskirts of an ancient galaxy

Amit Malewar

Astronomers thought they understood fast radio bursts. A recent one calls that into question.

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Social Science

Bay Area soda taxes help change people’s minds

Ashwini Sakharkar

Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages significantly affected the public's overall perceptions.

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Space

Astronomers discovered two great spots at the Jupiter’s north and south poles

Amit Malewar

Unusual magnetically driven vortices may be generating Earth-size concentrations of hydrocarbon haze.

exploded view of an ice giant planet such as Uranus or Neptune
Space

What lies beneath the bland surfaces of Uranus and Neptune?

Amit Malewar

Uranus and Neptune are unique but superficially bland ice giants in our solar system. Planetary scientists have devised two proposals for what lies beneath...

NeutronStar
Space

A nearby supernova explosion could end the search for dark matter

Amit Malewar

Axion dark matter should be produced and converted to gamma rays during a supernova.

The new porous material for capturing carbon dioxide, called a covalent organic framework (COF), has hexagonal channels decorated with polyamines that efficiently bind carbon dioxide molecules (blue and orange balls) at concentrations found in ambient air.
Technology

New absorbing material could help get the world to negative emissions

Ashwini Sakharkar

Capturing carbon from the air just got easier.

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Parenting

Want to make your children better fact-checkers? Study suggests best idea

Pranjal Malewar

How do children decide when to believe a claim? UC Berkeley psychologists have presented a somewhat paradoxical partial solution: Expose young children to more misinformation...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers.
Science

New process vaporizes plastic wastes to make new, recycled plastics

Ashwini Sakharkar

The catalytic process efficiently reduces polymers to chemical precursors.

3D reconstruction of a spherical colony of 70 choanoflagellates
Science

Another unusual creature found lurking in California’s Mono Lake

Amit Malewar

Colonies of these choanoflagellates have their own unique microbiomes.

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Science

How early humans brought down Megafauna 13,000 years ago?

Pranjal Malewar

The findings might reshape how we think about hunting some 13,000 years ago.

A team of scientists in a laboratory working diligently to analyze cancer cells under a microscop
Chemistry

Researchers watch catalyst during electrochemical reaction for the first time

Ashwini Sakharkar

Findings could enable advances in sustainable energy production, industry, and design.

Asteroid photobombs Hubble snapshot of Galaxy UGC 12158
Space

Astronomers discover 1031 Uncatalogued Asteroids

Editorial Team

The team used the help of "citizen scientists" worldwide, who contributed to identifying this asteroid bounty. Professional scientists then combined the volunteers’ efforts with...

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Science

An analysis reveals the origin of the Indian people

Pranjal Malewar

50,000 years of evolutionary history of India.

3D simulations of X-ray bursts on the surfaces of neutron stars
Space

3D simulations of X-ray bursts on the surfaces of neutron stars

Amit Malewar

Exploring exotic stellar phenomena.

An illustration of a brain cell in a person with Alzheimer's disease, showing the accumulation and clumping of tau proteins (blue squiggles) in the cytoplasm of brain cells. Protein clumps, also known as aggregates, are thought to lead to cell death and dementia. New research suggests that such clumps may not cause brain cell death directly, but rather throw the cell's response to stress off balance so that it never gets turned off.
Health

Stressed-out brain cells are the cause of neurodegenerative disease

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Constant stress triggered by clumping proteins is killing brain cells.

Test set-​up with which the researchers tested how lime crystals adhere to different surfaces.
Invention

Limescale-repellent coating to improve thermal power plant efficiency

Ashwini Sakharkar

A hydrogel-based coating that effectively prevents the adhesion of limescale.

coastal area on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington
Science

Pacific kelp forests have a much older origin than previously believed

Pranjal Malewar

The unique underwater kelp forests support a varied ecosystem.

An Anna's hummingbird
Science

How hummingbirds can fly through dense, narrow spaces?

Pranjal Malewar

Hummingbirds have evolved their own unique strategies.

Dark spot on Neptune observed with MUSE at ESO’s Very Large Telescope
Space

Astronomers observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere

European Southern Observatory

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpectedly smaller bright spot adjacent to...

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Space

Saturn has long-lasting megastorms with impacts deep in the atmosphere

Pranjal Malewar

Hundred-year storms?

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Environment

Measuring the effectiveness of the land’s carbon sink

Vidya Nagalwade

Evidence & attribution for land carbon sink enhancement.

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Environment

The Biden program might keep the racial difference in air quality

Vidya Nagalwade

Effects on disparities should be measured through air quality policies.

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Neuroscience

Brain region identified as key to conscious experience

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Different brain regions involved in sustained conscious visual perception.

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Health

Deep-sleep brain waves linked to blood sugar control

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Sleeping brainwaves predict blood sugar levels.

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Invention

A portable solar-powered water harvester combats water scarcity

Vidya Nagalwade

MOF water harvester uses sunlight to extract water from death valley air.

Parker Solar Probe spacecraft
Space

Parker Solar Probe flies into the fast solar wind and finds its source

Amit Malewar

It’s like seeing jets of water emanating from a showerhead through the blast of water.

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AI & Machine Learning

Raw data demonstrates brain-like signals in learning and listening

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Language Experience Shapes Speech Encoding in Convolutional Layers & the Brainstem.

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