Image credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Many people think that plants, while beautiful to look at, are defenseless and passive organisms. However, the many alien species – or “monster plants” – around us show that we should never underestimate plants and the fascinating battles that take place beneath our feet. Many of the first alien plants […]
There are works that keep video game lovers hooked for days, weeks and months, but Baldur’s Gate 3 is on another level. More than a year after its release on PC, where it remains among the most played titles, its creators continue to collect awards. However, the latest statuette that hit the shelves of Larian […]
You may know the story of The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopesthe subject of Brenda Wineapple’s new book, Keeping the faithIn the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial,” as the trial is better known, the state of Tennessee prosecuted a high school teacher under the Butler Act, which criminalized the teaching of human evolution in […]
The world’s largest 3D-printed residential area could change the entire real estate landscape. But if you expect dirt-cheap costs, you’re very much mistaken. Although many countries around the world are struggling with a housing crisis, with technological advances you might think why can’t we just print more? But now we actually kind of can. Construction […]
Red hexagons mark the four locations where the Perseverance rover collected rock samples around the sediment fan in Jezero Crater in 2022. Image credit: NASA For nearly five months in 2022, NASA’s Perseverance rover collected rock samples from Mars that could rewrite the history of water on the red planet and even contain evidence of […]
VESTAL, NY (WBNG) – The Binghamton Bearcats women’s volleyball team held its media day on Tuesday to talk about the upcoming season. Just one day after finishing 2nd in the America East Preseason Coaches Poll, expectations for this year’s team are high. Both head coach Allie Yaeger and two-time Player of the Year Tsvetelina Ilieva […]
Sum frequency spectromicroscopy of phonon polaritons in SiC micropillar arrays. Image credit: Advanced materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202312507 Scientists from the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society have made a significant discovery in the field of nanotechnology, as shown in their recent publication in Advanced materialsTheir article entitled […]
Scientists have developed a new open-source software tool called OpenFold that uses artificial intelligence and harnesses the power of supercomputers to predict protein structures. The image shows that OpenFold matches the accuracy of AlphaFold2 by overlaying predictions from OpenFold and AlphaFold2 with an experimental structure of the Streptomyces tokunonesis TokK protein. Image credit: Natural methods […]
As my colleagues and I set out to solve a centuries-old cosmic mystery, we discovered an unexpected celestial laboratory in Terzan 5, a dense star cluster currently hurtling through our galaxy at breakneck speed. This stellar curiosity has allowed us to study the behavior of cosmic rays – high-energy particles whose irregular trajectories through space […]
Kayaker’s close encounter with a shark in Half Moon Bay captured on video An Oakland man’s first kayak fishing trip in Half Moon Bay is an unforgettable experience. He and a friend encounter a shark and shot video of the experience. HALF MOON BAY, California. – An Oakland man had an encounter with a shark […]
