A 178-Year-Old Space Weather Mystery Has Finally Been Solved

A historical mystery about one of the earliest encounters between space weather and electrical technology has been resolved nearly two centuries later. A train that left Exeter 16 minutes late in the mid-1800s has helped scientists correct a nearly two-century-old mistake in the history of space weather. Researchers tracing the incident through railway records, newspapers, […]

A Giant Diplodocus Just Turned Up Where Scientists Never Expected

A dinosaur long thought to belong exclusively to North America has turned up in Spain, offering a 150-million-year-old clue to how giants moved between continents. Paleontologists at the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis have identified the first evidence of Diplodocus outside North America. Their study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, places the familiar […]

Magnetic Nanoparticles Could Help Detect and Treat Dangerous Ectopic Pregnancies

Magnetic nanoparticles could eventually help doctors both locate and treat ectopic pregnancies, after successfully targeting pregnancy-associated tissue in mice. When a fertilized egg implants inside a fallopian tube instead of the uterus, the growing pregnancy can rupture the tube and trigger life-threatening bleeding. About 98% of these abnormal implantations occur in the fallopian tubes, making […]

Magnetic Nanoparticles Could Help Detect and Treat Dangerous Ectopic Pregnancies

Magnetic nanoparticles could eventually help doctors both locate and treat ectopic pregnancies, after successfully targeting pregnancy-associated tissue in mice. When a fertilized egg implants inside a fallopian tube instead of the uterus, the growing pregnancy can rupture the tube and trigger life-threatening bleeding. About 98% of these abnormal implantations occur in the fallopian tubes, making […]

Magnetic Nanoparticles Could Help Detect and Treat Dangerous Ectopic Pregnancies

Magnetic nanoparticles could eventually help doctors both locate and treat ectopic pregnancies, after successfully targeting pregnancy-associated tissue in mice. When a fertilized egg implants inside a fallopian tube instead of the uterus, the growing pregnancy can rupture the tube and trigger life-threatening bleeding. About 98% of these abnormal implantations occur in the fallopian tubes, making […]

Red Meat Contains a Sugar Humans Can’t Make – Scientists Think It May Trigger Inflammation

Researchers found that diabetes risk rose with higher exposure to meat-derived Neu5Gc, while the same pattern was not seen for Neu5Gc from dairy. A sugar found naturally in red meat may help explain part of the long-observed association between meat consumption and type 2 diabetes. Preliminary findings from nearly 90,000 adults suggest that people with […]

Engineers Create Revolutionary New Sound Effect Technology

Researchers have demonstrated a solid-state approach to sound modulation that electronically creates the acoustic sensation of a moving sound source. A new speaker system developed at the University of Nottingham creates audio effects by manipulating sound waves around the listener rather than modifying only the electronic signal. The solid-state design recreates aspects of a classic […]

Engineers Create Revolutionary New Sound Effect Technology

Researchers have demonstrated a solid-state approach to sound modulation that electronically creates the acoustic sensation of a moving sound source. A new speaker system developed at the University of Nottingham creates audio effects by manipulating sound waves around the listener rather than modifying only the electronic signal. The solid-state design recreates aspects of a classic […]

Engineers Create Revolutionary New Sound Effect Technology

Researchers have demonstrated a solid-state approach to sound modulation that electronically creates the acoustic sensation of a moving sound source. A new speaker system developed at the University of Nottingham creates audio effects by manipulating sound waves around the listener rather than modifying only the electronic signal. The solid-state design recreates aspects of a classic […]

MIT Study Reveals Why a Neutrino Laser May Be Impossible

Physicists proposed a way to focus ghostly neutrinos into a laser-like beam, but new MIT calculations show that violent atomic recoil and the particles’ own quantum nature prevent the effect from taking hold. Trillions of subatomic particles stream through every square inch of Earth, passing through solid rock, massive stars, and human bodies every second […]

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