[ad_1] A planet 10 times the mass of Earth beyond Pluto is the Holy Grail among many astronomers, but new developments suggest that elusive Planet Nine may be no more than a mirage. The researchers propose that the mysterious planet is ‘collective gravity’, which is an expanding disk of frozen debris consisting of millions of … Read more
[ad_1] Controlled gene editing holds the potential to transform disease treatment, crops’ climate tolerance, and our ability to investigate genetics. The CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system has proved a key advance because of the ease and precision of making targeted genetic changes. Now, two independent teams demonstrate that CRISPR-Cas9 can be turned on in only a … Read more
[ad_1] The legalization and decriminalization of marijuana in California and elsewhere has made marijuana screening especially important, lead author Neil Garg said. Credit: Jesse Herring UCLA chemists have reported on the key chemical discovery necessary for the creation of a small electronic marijuana breathalyzer. The research is published in Organic Letters, a peer-reviewed journal of … Read more
[ad_1] Maple syrup is said to be Quebec, Canada’s liquid gold. Now scientists at the Université de Montréal (UdeM) have found a way to use real gold, in the form of nanoparticles, to quickly discover how syrup tastes. The new method, a kind of artificial language, is validated in a study published today (May 5) … Read more
[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public Domain A red beetle, classed as the most destructive date palm pest, causes millions of dollars of annual economic losses worldwide. Now, a small team in Saudi Arabia has found a cost-effective approach that uses laser pulses to detect the very early stages of infestation, giving farmers enough time to save … Read more
[ad_1] – Advertisement – In northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, microorganisms are able to eke out an existence by extracting water from the rocks they colonize. An Army-funded project by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, Johns Hopkins University and University of California, Riverside gained an in-depth understanding … Read more
[ad_1] Tourists diving with the whale shark in Oslob, Philippines. Credit: LAMAVE A study has shown how ecotourism in the Philippines has transformed people’s attitudes towards marine conservation. Researchers from the University of Victoria in Canada and the Philippine Large Marine Vertebrate Research Institute (LAMAVE) visited three sites where tourists pay to swim with whale … Read more
[ad_1] A schematic and electron microscope cross-section show the structure of an integrated, solar-powered catalyst to split water into hydrogen fuel and oxygen. The module developed at Rice University can be immersed into water directly to produce fuel when exposed to sunlight. Credit: Illustration by Jia Liang / Rice University ‘Artificial leaf’ concept inspires Rice … Read more
[ad_1] MDA reports it has received a contract worth CAD $ 190 million to support robotic operations on the International Space Station (ISS) from 2020 to 2024. MDA has provided Logistics and Sustaining Engineering (L&SE) services to the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and its international partners since the start of the ISS, which this year … Read more
[ad_1] The famous Mars meteorite Allan Hills 84001 (ALH84001), recovered in Antarctica in December 1984, contains 4 billion-year-old native organic molecules, the building blocks of life that contain carbon, a new study suggests. Furthermore, these bricks contain nitrogen, another ingredient on which life on Earth depends. These ingredients have been found within the carbonate minerals, … Read more