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Researchers all over the world are engaged in the search for better forms of energy as the demands of society continue increasing, but improving efficiency is necessary as well. Around 14 percent of total US energy production goes toward cooling homes and businesses, so that’s a good place to start. …

Non-equilibrium atmospheric pressure plasma jets are a promising mode of treating a variety of afflictions. However, unpredictable turbulence in the plasma has hindered the consistent application of this therapy in the clinic. In a recent study, scientists have revealed the cause of turbulence in the plasma, paving the way for …

Australian magpies ‘dunk’ their food in water before eating, a process that appears to be watched and ‘copied’ by their offspring, say University of York ornithologist Eleanor Drinkwater and co-authors. Their study is published in the journal Australian Field Ornithology. The Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen). Image credit: Eleanor Drinkwater. The …

NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully made its eighth flyby of the giant planet Jupiter on September 1, 2017, at 5:49p.m. EDT (2:49p.m. PDT, 21:49 UTC). This series of enhanced-color images shows Jupiter up close and personal, as Juno performed its eighth flyby of the gas giant. From left to right, the …

  Humanity has been launching probes, spacecraft, and even entire space stations into orbit around the Earth for decades, and we’re getting pretty good at it. We’re not so good at getting objects back down to Earth, though. That’s becoming a problem as more and more space junk piles up …

A new diagnostic tool — which has an accuracy rate of 93% — developed by RMIT University researchers could detect Parkinson’s disease before symptoms emerge, according to a report published in the journal Frontiers in Neurology. The only equipment needed to run the newly developed diagnostic test is a pen, …

In a paper published in the journal Nature, Dr. Barry Mauk of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and co-authors report observations of the so-called discrete electron acceleration over Jupiter’s auroral polar regions. This image, created with data from Juno’s Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph, marks the path of Juno’s readings …

NASA has actually reported a substantial solar flare being discharged by the Sun, the most effective since 2006, which has already triggered some radio blackouts on Earth– and it may cause aurora visible as far south as London.The flare was one of two produced by the Sun yesterday early morning(September …

Early this morning (Sept. 6) the sun released 2 powerful solar flares– the second was the most effective in more than a decade. Read More

Grab a warm coat and prepare yourself to take a trip far from synthetic lights. Thanks to the ,”Rodney Viereck from the Area Weather Prediction Center at NOAA told IFLScience.” A small error in the size and instructions estimates will have a huge effect on how big a storm we …