Meteorite that smashed through a New Jersey roof reveals clues to lifeâs origins
A meteor streaked across the New York City area in broad daylight on July 16, 2024, producing a sonic boom as it passed just south…
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Photochemical internalization enhances in vivo immunity to peptideâ and proteinâbased vaccines with synthetic dsRNA adjuvants
Efficient priming of antigenâspecific CD8âș T cells remains a major challenge for peptideâ and proteinâbased therapeutic vaccines targeting cancer and intracellular pathogens, despite the use…
Gender and diagnostic differences in childrenâs preferences for social robot design. A mixed-methods study with autistic and neurotypical children
Abstract Introduction: Autistic children are increasingly engaging with social robots in educational and support contexts, but limited research has compared the perceptual and design preferences…
APOD: 2026 August 9 – Contemplating the Sun
Explanation: Have you contemplated your home star recently? Featured here, a Sun partially eclipsed on the top left by the Moon is also seen eclipsed…
Earthâs molten core suddenly reversed direction â and scientists donât know why
Liquid iron in Earth’s outer core can behave in surprising ways. Scientists discovered that a large flow of molten material deep beneath the Pacific Ocean…
Insights into the Ir-O redox dynamics of an operating PEM water electrolyzer using in operando Raman spectroscopy
Catalyst evolution during electrolysis Stages 1 and 2 (see âMethodsâ/Fig. S4) were performed to evaluate the potential dependent evolution of the electrocatalyst’s structure. Here, the open…
In the 1890s, the U.S. hired a team of globe-trotting plant hunters
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Northern lights 'likely' to be visible in UK tonight
Northern lights 'likely' to be visible in UK tonight
Distributed robust optimization of airborne wind energy-integrated energy systems with virtual battery-based demand response
Abstract Weak-grid rural settlements in remote areas often face fragile grid infrastructure and high fuel transportation costs, which severely limit both the economic performance and…
These tiny swirls on the sun could trigger solar flaresÂ
High-energy whirlpools speckle the sunâs surface. New telescope images show characteristic swirls of magnetized plasma across a 19-kilometer-wide patch of the sunâs surface. The observations, reported August 5 in Nature, are the most detailed taken…