20-May-2024 A waterfall lost and a river found DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Matt and Brandon traveled to Ecuador's rainforests to map the Coca River with drones. The river is experiencing massive erosion and sedimentation problems after the San Rafael waterfall collapsed in 2020. Their work could help the country save a hydroelectric power plant that provides 30% of the country's electricity as well as roads and pipelines the area's people depend on for commerce and transportation.
17-May-2024 Cryogenics in zero gravity Purdue University As we plan for future interplanetary spaceflight, one major aspect remains untested: refueling in space. That’s because most rocket propellants are cryogenic liquids whose long-term behavior in space is still unknown. Purdue University researchers are collaborating with NASA to study cryogenic liquids in zero gravity, leading to the possibility of propellant depots and refueling spacecraft in orbit. Funder NASA Glenn Research Center
17-May-2024 Delegation from Taiwan visits IQWiG Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care Delegation from Taiwan visits IQWiG. At the end of April 2024, Mao-Ting Sheen, the Health Director of the Taipei (Taiwan) Representative Office in the EU, visited the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG). He wanted to learn more about IQWiG's tasks and how they are implemented.
16-May-2024 How NASA tracked the most intense solar storm in decades NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center May 2024 has already proven to be a particularly stormy month for our Sun. During the first full week of May, a barrage of large solar flares and coronal mass ejections launched clouds of charged particles and magnetic fields toward Earth, creating the strongest solar storm to reach Earth in two decades — and possibly one of the strongest displays of aurora on record in the past 500 years.
16-May-2024 English professor and colleagues discover another John Milton-owned book Penn State For the second time in five years, Claire M.L. Bourne, associate professor of English at Penn State, is part of a team of scholars responsible for identifying a book that they said almost certainly belonged to 17th century English literary giant John Milton. Bourne co-wrote an essay published today (May 15) in the London-based The Times Literary Supplement in which she and fellow researchers Aaron T. Pratt and Jason Scott-Warren detail their efforts to identify Milton, best known for the epic poem “Paradise Lost,” as the former owner and annotator of a copy of the second expanded edition of Raphael Holinshed's two-volume history of Britain, published as “The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland” in1587 but known widely as Holinshed’s “Chronicles.”
16-May-2024 Stellar insights: The Mauve mission’s journey into the cosmos Boston University What do we really know about the stars?
16-May-2024 Media Tip: Resurrecting niobium for quantum science DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Niobium has long been considered an underperformer in superconducting qubits. Scientists supported by Q-NEXT, a US DOE quantum center led by Argonne, have now engineered a high-quality niobium-based qubit, taking advantage of niobium’s superior qualities.
16-May-2024 SEAGHOSTS: International project will monitor the biodiversity of the smallest seabirds on the planet Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon Starting now and until 2027, the international project SEAGHOSTS will monitor and conserve populations of storm petrels, among the smallest seabirds on the planet. The Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (CIÊNCIAS) and the Institute for Research in Marine Sciences – OKEANOS, at the University of Azores, are the Portuguese partners of this project.
16-May-2024 Want to have your say? Deep-time Digital Earth and Springer Nature are polling experts to frame the future Top Ten Research Trend of Earth sciences. Cactus Communications Scientists at the Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) Big Science Program — a major international initiative — are turning to their global colleagues to find out. They have created a list of 30 trending topics across the geological sciences, and are inviting researchers from around the world to vote and select the top 10 trends from proposed 30 topics.
16-May-2024 Preventable loss: A billion birds die to window strikes each year University of Cincinnati As many as 1 billion birds die each year across the country after striking glass windows, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Some individual buildings are the site of thousands of bird mortalities each year. The losses are significant, a University of Cincinnati biologist says.
