The center of the Milky Way glows. Yes, there’s a big chonkin ‘black hole, and it’s a very energetic region, but there’s an extra high energy, gamma ray glow, above the activity we know about, and it’s something that still to be explained. This glow is called the Galactic Center …
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Water occupies 70 percent of the earth’s surface and is crucial to life as we know it, but how it got here has been a long scientific debate. The puzzle was solved a step closer Thursday after a French team reported in the magazine Science they had identified which space …
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Scientists from Leeds and Edinburgh and University College London analyzed satellite studies of glaciers, mountains, and ice sheets between 1994 and 2017 to identify the effects of global warming. Their review paper was published in the magazine Cryosphere Discussions. Describing the ice loss as ‘staggering’, the group found that melting …
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Scientists have established a bundle of processes that go wrong in the skin for people who have eczema (also called atopic dermatitis), and it may help us to figure out how to combat this chronic condition. Back in 2006, researchers found a strong bond between people who did not miss …
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For their own self-preservation, infected bacteria often try their best to stay out of the immune system in our bodies – and scientists have found a surprising and previously undiscovered way to do this. What happens is that the bacteria release toxins to disarm the mitochondria in immune cells, those …
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