Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute’s Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing mystery has persisted about this orb: It is too dim for its mass.
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14-year-old who invented device to detect pesticides on produce named America’s Top Young Scientist
Sirish Subash is named “America’s Top Young Scientist” for his device PestiSCAND that can help detect harmful pesticide residue.
Big Slim on Instagram: ‘This might be better 🤔’
6,703 likes, — slimthug on October 13, 2024: ‘This might be better 🤔’
The neutron lifetime problem—and its possible solution
Neutrons are among the basic building blocks of matter. As long as they are part of a stable atomic nucleus, they can stay there for arbitrary periods of time. However, the situation is different for free neutrons: They decay—after about 15 minutes, on average.
Google Chrome update creates permissions nightmare for ad blockers, rendering uBlock Origin inaccessible on newer Chromebooks
Ad-blocking stalwarts begin to crumble in the face of Manifest V3.
Studies of dinosaur eggs flourish in southern China_china.org.cn
It took nearly three years for workers at a dinosaur museum in Heyuan, Guangdong province to restore a nest of 11 dinosaur eggs unearthed near a local bridge.
“Every piece of information about the dinosaur eggs is well recorded, waiting for future uncovering,” said Huang Zhiqing, deputy director of the collection and research department at the Heyuan Dinosaur Museum.
The nest of eggs is just a small part of their kind in the museum. There are nearly 20,000 dinosaur egg fossils on display at the museum since the first dinosaur egg fossil was dug up in Heyuan in 1996.
New global database of dams and reservoirs could transform water management
A database developed by the Global Dam Watch (GDW) consortium is set to transform the global understanding of dams and reservoirs.
In a fusion device plasma, a steep ion temperature gradient slows the growth of magnetic islands
Future fusion power plants will require good plasma confinement to sustain reactions and generate energy. One way to contain plasma for fusion reactions is to use a tokamak, a device that applies magnetic fields to “bottle” plasma. However, magnetic islands, a type of instability in the plasma, can destroy the confining magnetic field if they grow large enough.
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Dark oxygen, discovered for the first time in history: It’s under the sea, and it’s not good at all
Dark oxygen could have been discovered for the first time in history: Experts are worried about what could we do know.









