Stars don’t form out of nothing, but tracking the gas and dust that do eventually form stars is hard. They float around the galaxy at almost absolute zero, emitting essentially no light, and generally making life difficult for astronomers. But part of how they make life difficult is actually the key to studying them—they have absorption lines that detail what kind of material the light is passing through on its way to Earth.
Tracking molecules in the interstellar medium
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Immigrants in the United States earn 10.6% less than similarly educated U.S.-born workers, largely because they are concentrated in lower-paying industries, occupations and companies, according to a major new study published in Nature, co-authored by [...]
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Taliban leaders have chosen to maintain a delicate balancing act in their relationships with other local violent jihadi groups since taking power in Afghanistan, new research shows.This post was originally published on this site
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We’re just a few months into US president Donald Trump’s second term but his rule has already been repeatedly compared to tyranny.This post was originally published on this site
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The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the far-reaching social implications of emerging infectious diseases, bringing to mind similarly impactful events like the Black Plague in early modern Europe or the Spanish Flu after World [...]
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Many former leaders of the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations were impaired by health conditions while in office, raising concerns over their decision-making abilities while they had access to nuclear weapon launch codes, a study from [...]
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As gun sales in the United States continue to soar, researchers at Georgia State University have uncovered insights into what drives Americans to buy firearms. A new study published in PNAS Nexus journal reveals the [...]
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The world experienced more than 60 armed conflicts in 2024, a “historically high” number according to scholars in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Consequently, the risks faced by multinational companies [...]
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Reading news on social media for two weeks improves knowledge and fake news recognition, study finds
Consuming news on social media is often associated with “doom scrolling,” where people spend excessive time online consuming negative news. However, researchers have found that this same behavior, when leveraged effectively, can help foster a [...] -
In research published in Social Science Quarterly, the study’s investigator expected that migrants living in cities where local voting rights are extended to non-citizens would be more likely to engage in protests compared with those [...]
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Are opinions on controversial political issues as divided as many people perceive them to be? Researchers from the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) in Vienna and [...]
