Science

European Space Agency

Artist’s rendering of a Solsys system that mechanically sorts regolith before dissolving nutrients into water. (Image: Solsys/ESA)The European Space Agency (ESA) announced Wednesday that it’s launched a new project that will help determine the feasibility of farming on the moon. The project, “Enabling Lunar In-Situ Agriculture by Producing Fertilizer from …

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InSight Lander Image From Mars

Time is running out for NASA’s InSight lander. On the heels of yet another important seismic discovery, the lander’s power reserves have dropped to critical levels. InSight, which has been on Mars since late 2018, beamed home what may be its final image, featuring the arid surface and its own …

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AI Helps Biotech Labs

Myotis daubentonii. (Credit: Generate Biomedicines)Proteins are an essential part of life. Not only do they function as the “building blocks” for living organisms, but they also perform nearly every cellular task, from waste management to tissue repair. It tracks, then, that pharmaceuticals often contain or “target” proteins in an attempt …

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3D Radiogram of Mars

Mars is the only known planet aside from Earth that has polar ice caps, but unlike Earth, the ice on Mars is mostly of the “dry” carbon dioxide variety. Naturally, there’s great interest in better understanding the Martian polar regions. A new analysis of Mars using data from NASA’s Mars …

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Ediacaran Animals

The oldest animals appear in the fossil record among Ediacaran biota communities. In new research, paleontologists from the Australian National University and elsewhere examined the gut contents of three Ediacaran species — the 558-million-year-old tube worm-like Calyptrina and the mollusk-like Kimberella as well as one of the key Ediacaran animals, …

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Almond Consumption

A snack of 30-50 grams of almonds could help people cut back on the number of calories they consume each day, according to a new study led by University of South Australia scientists. Carter et al. compared postprandial changes in appetite-regulating hormones and self-reported appetite ratings after consuming almonds or …

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New Bird Like Dinosaur

More than 120 million years ago in what is now China, a hungry dromaeosaurid dinosaur ate a small frog. Daurlong wangi holotype: (a) whole specimen, (b) skull, (c) detail of orbit region, (d) feather remains associated to the thoracic vertebrae, (e) frog skeleton. Scale bars – 20 mm in (b), …

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Gigantic Turtle Species

Aside from being the largest marine turtle species ever discovered in Europe, and one of the largest worldwide, the discovery of Leviathanochelys aenigmatica suggests that gigantism in marine turtles was acquired independently, by different lineages over time. An artist’s impression of Archelon ischyros. Image credit: Nobu Tamura, spinops.blogspot.com. Leviathanochelys aenigmatica …

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Honey Consumption

Honey, especially robinia (also known as acacia honey, a honey from false acacia or black locust trees), clover, and unprocessed raw honey, may improve glycemic control and lipid levels when consumed within a healthy dietary pattern, according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis led by the University of Toronto …

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Newly Discovered Bacterium

Biologists have isolated a new type of multicellular bacterium, named Jeongeupia sacculi HS-3, from an underground stream in northern Kyushu Island, Japan. Jeongeupia sacculi HS-3 represents an unusual form of bacterial multicellularity — an organism that can exist in dense, filamentous multicellular structures and clusters of coccobacillus (short rod-shaped) daughter …

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