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A dying star consumes a planet, foreshadowing Earth ’s fate
For the first time, astronomers have observed a dying star billowing up and swallowing one of its planets—just as the Sun will someday consume Earth. Researchers spotted the event some 12,000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila while searching for the fireworks associated with stellar mergers. The relatively minor cataclysm, which flared only 1/1000th as brightly as a binary star merger, could open a whole new field of study, researchers say.
“This opens a pathway to more discoveries,” says Igor Andreoni, an astronomer at the University of Maryland who was not involved in the observations. “How does t...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 3, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
60Fe and 244Pu deposited on Earth constrain the r-process yields of recent nearby supernovae
Half of the chemical elements heavier than iron are produced by the rapid neutron capture process (r-process). The sites and yields of this process are disputed, with candidates including some types of supernovae (SNe) and mergers of neutron stars. We search for two isotopic signatures in a sample of Pacific Ocean crust—iron-60 (60Fe) (half-life, 2.6 million years), which is predominantly produced in massive stars and ejected in supernova explosions, and plutonium-244 (244Pu) (half-life, 80.6 million years), which is produced solely in r-process events. We detect two distinct influxes of 60Fe to Earth in the last 10 ...
Source: Science: Current Issue - May 13, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Wallner, A., Froehlich, M. B., Hotchkis, M. A. C., Kinoshita, N., Paul, M., Martschini, M., Pavetich, S., Tims, S. G., Kivel, N., Schumann, D., Honda, M., Matsuzaki, H., Yamagata, T. Tags: Astronomy, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Physics reports Source Type: research
Why Trump ’s ‘Space Force’ Won’t — and Shouldn’t — Happen
Good government is often unglamorous stuff—fixing pot holes, plowing snow, collecting trash. At a White House event on June 18, President Trump was supposed to deliver a brief address on the trash-collecting part. Yes, the junk in question is in space—the growing belt of debris that has been accumulating in Earth orbit since the very beginning of the space age and poses an increasing risk to satellites and other spacecraft. But it’s still just trash, and managing it was the focus of Trump’s latest Space Policy Directive—the third he has signed since taking office.
As Trump has been known to do...
Source: TIME: Science - June 19, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized onetime space Source Type: news
John Oliver Breaks Down Corporate Consolidation on Last Week Tonight
John Oliver wants you to know that small business is the backbone of our economy — and he has the eerily echoing footage of U.S. politicians to prove it. “It’s that rare thing that ever politician agrees on,” said Oliver. “It’s that, support our troops, Ted Cruz can go f— himself, and South Dakota Senator John Thune can get it.”
While small business is the backbone of the economy, these days, big business is getting bigger than ever thanks to mergers and acquisitions, which is what Oliver focused on during Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight. Corporate consolida...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - September 25, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Melissa Locker Tags: Uncategorized John Oliver Last Week Tonight Late Night Comedy Television Source Type: news
Salespeople knowledge search behavior and sales performance: An investigation of printing equipment industry
This study investigates whether and how two learning styles – deep and surface – and two knowledge structures – vertical and horizontal – in respect of salespeople searching behavior in an inter-organizational information system lead to higher performance outcomes in printing equipment industry. We use a unique longitudinal dataset composed of 21,256 online search logs created by 408 salespeople and quarterly sales performance across 21 European countries from 2009 to 2013. The results show that salespeople must conduct a deep search to build rich product knowledge rather than surface search. Furthermore, instead o...
Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change - January 11, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: research
Evolutionary ecology of virus emergence
The cross‐species transmission of viruses into new host populations, termed virus emergence, is a significant issue in public health, agriculture, wildlife management, and related fields. Virus emergence requires overlap between host populations, alterations in virus genetics to permit infection of new hosts, and adaptation to novel hosts such that between‐host transmission is sustainable, all of which are the purview of the fields of ecology and evolution. A firm understanding of the ecology of viruses and how they evolve is required for understanding how and why viruses emerge. In this paper, I address the evolutiona...
Source: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - November 30, 2016 Category: Science Authors: John J. Dennehy Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Novel ncRNA, NfiS, optimizes nitrogen fixation Microbiology
Unlike most Pseudomonas, the root-associated bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri A1501 fixes nitrogen after the horizontal acquisition of a nitrogen-fixing (nif) island. A genome-wide search for small noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) in P. stutzeri A1501 identified the novel P. stutzeri-specific ncRNA NfiS in the core genome, whose synthesis was significantly induced under nitrogen...
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - July 25, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Zhan, Y., Yan, Y., Deng, Z., Chen, M., Lu, W., Lu, C., Shang, L., Yang, Z., Zhang, W., Wang, W., Li, Y., Ke, Q., Lu, J., Xu, Y., Zhang, L., Xie, Z., Cheng, Q., Elmerich, C., Lin, M. Tags: PNAS Plus Source Type: research
Could mysterious gamma-ray burst be linked to gravitational wave find?
After a decades-long search, scientists announced early this year that they had detected gravitational waves probably coming from the merger of two black holes back in September. Now, a team of scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope say they spotted a brief flash of gamma rays...
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - April 19, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Amina Khan Source Type: news
Senate Panel Scolds Companies for Drug Price Spikes
Lawmakers investigating how mergers may stoke price hikes at companies including Valeant, Turing
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Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - December 10, 2015 Category: Science Tags: Health Medicine Pharmaceuticals Society & Policy Source Type: research
The Iconic Grizzly Bear Returns
Acclaimed photographer Tom Mangelsen and noted journalist Todd Wilkinson just released the book Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek, which is memoir of sorts of one of the most famous grizzly bears in the Lower 48. Her name is 399 and she is a star among bears. Bear 399 was first fitted with a tracking collar back in 2001, as a 5-year-old sow living in Grand Teton National Park. Studies of 399 and her cubs' movements and interactions with people near Jackson Hole have recently enlightened researchers about the behavior of habituated bears, not to be confused with food conditioned bears. Pioneering radio telemetry studies were fir...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - December 4, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Apple Is Hiring People To Predict What You're Thinking
Sept. 7 (Reuters) -- Apple has ramped up its hiring of artificial intelligence experts, recruiting from PhD programs, posting dozens of job listings and greatly increasing the size of its AI staff, a review of hiring sites suggests and numerous sources confirm. The goal is to challenge Google in an area the Internet search giant has long dominated: smartphone features that give users what they want before they ask. As part of its push, the company is currently trying to hire at least 86 more employees with expertise in the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning, according to a recent analysis of Apple ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 8, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Black-Hole Mergers Cast a Kaleidoscope of Eyebrow-Shaped Shadows Video
The merged objects bend light around them into a "fractal" as they spiral each other
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Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - November 7, 2014 Category: Science Tags: Space Astrophysics Galaxies Source Type: research
Demis Hassabis: 15 facts about the DeepMind Technologies founder
The man behind Google's new £400m acquisition is a former child prodigy who was a chess master and a games developer before moving into artificial intelligence• Now 37, Hassabis was born in London in July 1976 and quickly showed academic promise and skill with board games, especially chess.• At the ages of 13 Hassabis reached the rank of chess master, and was the second-highest-rated player in the world under 14 at the time – beaten only by the Hungarian chess grandmaster and strongest female chess player in history, Judit Polgár.• Accelerated through school, Hassabis completed his A-level exams two years early....
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 28, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Samuel Gibbs Tags: theguardian.com Blogposts Consciousness Computing Technology UK news London Google Business Artificial intelligence (AI) Science Source Type: news
Google buys artificial intelligence firm DeepMind Technologies for £400m
London-based firm set up by chess-prodigy-turned-neuroscientist is Google's biggest ever European acquisitionA two-year-old British technology company set up by a former child chess prodigy who became a groundbreaking neuroscientist has become Google's largest European acquisition.The search giant is spending £400m ($625m) on DeepMind Technologies, a London-based firm set up in 2012, which recently developed a computer system capable of understanding and playing an Atari computer game simply by looking at it on a screen as a human would.The artificial intelligence (AI) firm was created by Demis Hassabis, 37. Described as ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 27, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Samuel Gibbs Tags: The Guardian Technology sector Consciousness News Computing UK news London Google Business Artificial intelligence (AI) Science Source Type: news
China Pledges Further Support for Solar Industry
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China pledged further support support for its ailing solar power industry on Saturday as the government seeks to revive a sector struggling with overcapacity and falling prices.The State Council, China's cabinet, said in July that the country aimed to more than quadruple solar power generating capacity to 35 gigawatts by 2015 in an apparent bid to ease a glut in the domestic solar power industry.The State Council, in a statement published on its website, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology was taking measures to "promote the healthy development of the photovoltaic industry".The min...
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - January 9, 2014 Category: Science Tags: Energy & Sustainability,Energy Technology,Alternative Energy Technology,Society Policy Source Type: research
