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X-ray diffraction images showing the new form of silica created by sending an intense shock wave through a sample of quartz with a specialized gas gun. As the X-rays repeat repeating faces of a crystalline structure, they scatter. This provides a distinctive ring pattern. Each ring is associated with a …

Collection of pore fluid from sediment core for geochemical analysis. Samples are collected with so-called Rhizon samplers on board R / V GO Sars in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea during Center of Geobiology Expedition 2015. Credit: Michel Melcher An international team of researchers has discovered a new group of Chlamydiae – …

In an electron micrograph, mycorrhizal fungi (bright gray) penetrate root cells, where the fungi supply water and nutrients in exchange for carbon. Eye of Science / Science Source By Elizabeth Pennisi, Warren CornwallAugust 26, 2020, 2:45 p.m. The future of the world’s flora may depend as much, if not more, …

New Delhi: COVID-19 can affect almost any organ and the first symptoms may not be at all related to complaints about breasts, experts at AIIMS said Wednesday. They emphasize that classification of cases into mild, moderate and severe categories based solely on respiratory symptoms should be re-examined to include other …

The interpretation of an artist’s galaxy shows the “boxy” distribution of stars in the Galactic Center. A UCI-led team of physicists said in a newly published study that this form leaves very little room for redundant radiation from the destruction of particles of dark matter. Credit: Oscar Macias for UCI …