It’s been about eight months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first light. Now the telescope is scanning the night sky to detect transient changes and sending alerts to astronomers and observatories around the […]
If you gathered every American with a prison record into one contiguous territory and admitted it to the union, you would create the 12th-largest state. It would be home to at least 7 million to […]
An international team of astronomers has carried out photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2024abvb—a recently discovered supernova of a rare Type Icn. The new observational campaign yields important information regarding the properties and nature […]
New York state farmers who signed large-scale solar leases were three times more likely to say they’ll use the revenue from solar to invest in their farms than to reduce operations, according to a new […]
Imagine trying to reconstruct the history of a city by studying only its oldest surviving buildings. You can’t watch it being built, you can’t interview the architects, all you have are the structures themselves, their […]
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has created a magnetostrictive transducer (MST) probe that uses ultrasonic guided wave technology to detect corrosion in storage tanks, a process that normally requires emptying the tank and checking for corrosion […]
A survey of nearly 6,000 UK households warns of a sharp increase in those aged 40–59 years using buy-now-pay-later loans (BNPL). These loans are currently accessed by 18% of UK households (up from 15% in […]
Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. It is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion light-years away, opening a new […]
Young adulthood—that pivotal period of time around the ages of 17 and 18—often brings a series of firsts: first time living away from home, first love, and, for many in the Western world, the decision […]
New research led by James Cook University psychology lecturer Dr. Chae Rose suggests that whether speeding is reduced by deterrence or self-control depends not only on drivers’ own views about speeding, but on how those […]
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