If you apply enough heat to a material, most things will melt at some point, much like ice on a hot summer day. Engineers rely on this knowledge every day. Knowing the exact melting temperatures is a critical parameter for building high-performance materials. From building and securing bridges to gas turbines and jet engines to …
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Amoebae gain surprising support in defense against viruses: the bacteria they are infected with prevent them from being destroyed by giant viruses. A research team led by microbiologist Matthias Horn of the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna has investigated how a virus infection progresses when the amoebae are …
NASA canceled the first launch attempt of Artemis 1, the US space agency’s first human-rated moon rocket in 50 years, on Monday due to an “engine bleed” that halted the countdown 40 minutes before launch. Engineers at NASA’s launch complex in Cape Canaveral, Florida, discovered the problem with one of the four core stage engines …
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“Zombie Ice Cream” from the huge ice sheet of Greenland will eventually raise global sea levels by at least 27 centimeters on its own, according to a study released Monday. Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer fed by those larger glaciers. That’s …
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Major sea level rise due to the melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now inevitable, scientists have found, even if the burning of fossil fuels causing the climate crisis were to end overnight. The research shows that global warming so far will cause an absolute minimum sea level rise of 27 cm (10.6 in) …
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CAMBRIDGE, MA – In a living cell, proteins and other molecules are often packed closely together. These dense clusters can be difficult to image because the fluorescent labels used to visualize them cannot be trapped between the molecules. MIT researchers have now developed a new way to overcome this limitation and make those “invisible” molecules …
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A still image from the 3D simulation of the natural development of an X-shaped jet. The gas (bright red) falls into the black hole, which launches a pair of relativistic jets (light blue). The jets propagate vertically and shock the surrounding gas (dark red). The older cavities (dark blue) float up at an angle to …
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Artemis 1 launch canceled for today NASA officially canceled the planned launch of Artemis 1 today due to a “conditioning problem” with one of the four engines on the rocket’s main stage. The engine “didn’t get the high accuracy temperature they were looking for”, launch control communicator Derrol nail said of engineers’ efforts to “condition” …
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Imagine this scenario: You ordered an ornate oak desk online and when it arrives a few days later, you tear open your package breathlessly. The box is lighter than expected and contains only a flat piece of wood with wet ink that resembles maple fudge. But after the ink dries, the wood miraculously turns into …
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The strange behavior of a galaxy about a billion light-years away suggests it could be hosting one of the most anticipated events in modern astronomy. Light fluctuations from the center of the galaxy SDSS J1430+2303 look suspiciously like a pair of supermassive black holes with a combined mass of about 200 million suns destined for …
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