Chinese cluster now world’s top innovation hotspot: UN
Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou has overtaken Tokyo-Yokohama to become the world’s top cluster for innovation, the United Nations said Monday.
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Pluto’s dwarf planet partner Charon may have spilled its guts to create 2 of the pair’s moons
“The surfaces of Nix and Hydra are as close to unaltered as you can get.”
New report highlights the critical importance of involving lived experience experts in research
Monash University researchers alongside lived experience experts (LEEs) have co-authored a report that provides practical strategies and recommendations to encourage meaningful LEE participation at all stages of a project. This not only enriches the quality and relevance of research outcomes…
Official death count of 2023 Hawaii wildfires doesn’t capture true toll, study suggests
Beyond the blaze, wildfires can have rippling effects on a community’s health and the land.
Scientists discover explosive origins of superspeed electrons streaming from the sun
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has tracked near-light-speed electrons back to the sun, finding two distinct families generated by solar flares and CMEs.
Could a unique rectangular telescope be the key to finding Earth 2.0?
A new concept for a next generation space telescope could provide an affordable breakthrough in the hunt for Earth’s twin.
Dark matter could be turning giant planets into black holes
Astronomers have found over 5,000 exoplanets, and now scientists think these distant worlds could unlock one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter. A new study suggests that Jupiter-like planets may gradually collect superheavy dark matter particles in their cores,…
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Scientists stunned by the Universe’s first known black hole
Just 500 million years after the Big Bang, a colossal black hole, 300 million times the mass of the Sun, was already blazing at the heart of a tiny, brilliant galaxy. Found with JWST, this discovery could explain the strange…
NASA’s x-ray telescope finds bizarre features in a cosmic hand
Astronomers have taken a fresh look at the famous “Hand of God” pulsar, combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra Observatory with new radio observations from the Australia Telescope Compact Array. At the center is pulsar B1509-58, a rapidly spinning neutron…