The Scottish tape is great for wrapping gifts – and even for science. With some Scottish tape and little creativity, it is possible to create diamond sheets up to five centimeters wide and as less than a thick micrometer, a team of researchers reports December 18th in Nature. Adhesive materials help release these thin diamond … Read more
It is official: 2024 was really hotter in record. It was also the first year in recorded history that the average land temperature was higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Scientists described those gloomy milestones in a report issued on January 10 by the European Union climate change service. Numerous other global recordings … Read more
Quiet passage away from the pure heart is a Trop that appears in myth and fantasy. IN Stars wars The universe, Padmé Amidala may have died from a broken heart after her husband returned to the dark side, becoming Darth Vader and she gave birth to Luke and Leia. Shakespeare’s king Lear is subjected to … Read more
NASA’s solar Sonda Sonda Skiming the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat -strengthened spaceship made its nearest solar flight still at 6:53 am EST on December 24th. It came within 6.1 million kilometers of the Sun’s surface, beating its 2023’s own record of 7.26 million kilometers. At the time … Read more
A new degraded microbe can soon replace plastic exfoliants in skin cleaners. Polymer spheres effectively remove permanent marker and eyeliner into animal skin samples and divided into molecules similar to sugars and amino acids, researchers report on December 6 The chemical engineering of nature. The beads offer an environmentally friendly alternative to microplastic beads, scientists … Read more
Fire -joinedDenver Museum of Nature and ScienceAvailable wherever you get your podcast -et For hundreds of millions of years, wild fires were directed only by weather, vegetation and terrain. But in the last century in the United States, people have also sought to suppress those useful fires that would otherwise cleanse the dead vegetation, which … Read more
Water engineers in ancient America of South America returned to Savannas seasonal seasonal in Amazonian Savannas in corn agriculture fires throughout the year. Casaraba people built an innovative, previously unknown network of drainage channels and water storage that enabled two corn harvesters each year, say geoarchologist Umberto Lombardo of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and … Read more
Pluto’s meeting and Charon may have started with a kiss. The new computer simulations of the planet Dwarf and its largest moon suggest that the pair joined a “kiss and clip” collision, where both bodies briefly joined before they were placed in their current positions. “It’s a U-Haul situation,” says planetary scientist Adeene Denton of … Read more
The next time you get caught in the rain, thank your eyelashes for keeping your vision clearly. Experiments with human eyelashes and fibers imitating eyelashes show some traits that help water The advances of science. The outside of a eyelash, or cuticle, acts as a “micro-case”, the researchers report. Water can flow easily from root … Read more
On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers have discovered the remains of an ancient glacier that could be over a million years old. The discovery presents what may be the oldest glacier ice ever found buried in Permafrost – the ground that has been frozen for at least 2 years straight – in … Read more