CryoSat reveals retreat of Patagonian glaciers
While ESA’s CryoSat continues to provide clear insight into how much sea ice is being lost and how the Antarctic and Greenlandic ice sheets are changing, the mission has again surpas...
Copernicus Sentinel-5P releases first data
Following months of tests and careful evaluation, the first data on air pollutants from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite have been released. These first maps show a range of trac...
Copernicus Sentinel-3B delivers first images
Applications Copernicus Sentinel-3B delivers first images 09/05/2018 22185 views 152 likes Less than two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite has delive...
Controlling hole spin for future quantum spin-based devices, topological materials
Credit: FLEET The ‘spins’ of electrons (and holes) in semiconductors have potential applications in spintronics, spin-based quantum computing, and topological systems. Because of th...
Cells in space
On a biological mission Four biological experiments conducted in Europe’s Columbus module on the Station are looking into how microgravity wears down muscle, retinal and stem cells t...
Atom interferometer
A prototype atom interferometer chip in a vacuum chamber, harnessing the quantum behaviour of atoms to perform ultra-precise measurements of gravity. “Quantum physics and space trave...
A way to get green revolution crops to be productive without needing so much nitrogen
In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their research efforts and the results they found when planting newly developed plant varieties. Unfortunately, DE...
Why universal basic income costs far less than you think
But this is not how much UBI costs. This also resolves UBI’s billionaire’s dilemma – why give someone like Bill Gates a basic income? Cost estimates that consider the difference betw...
Three leaders in longevity biotechnology form a research collaboration
The collaboration will utilize an end-to-end machine learning system to identify the molecular targets and generate the novel compounds. The Verdin lab will collaborate with Napa, us...
Syracuse physicists to construct particle tracking device with $3.7 million NSF award
The High-Energy Physics (HEP) Group in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is the recipient of a three-year, $3.7 million NSF award, supporting ongoing research into the funda...
Study confirms steady warming of oceans for past 75 years
Scientists have solved a puzzling break in continuity of ocean warming records that sparked much controversy after climate data was published in the journal Science in 2015. The new ...
Space-based tracker to give scientists a beyond-bird’s-eye-view of wildlife
Thanks to the recently founded Max Planck-Yale Center (MPYC) for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change, Yale and U.S.-based biodiversity researchers will be among the first to make...
Skeletons developed as chemistry of oceans changed, study shows
Skeletons and shells first came into being 550 million years ago as the chemical make-up of seawater changed, a study suggests. However, researchers at the University of Edinburgh ha...
Scientists transform how complex marine data from the Ocean Health Index is synthesized, communicated
Employing several free software solutions that upgrade collaborative research, the team has been able to make its entire workflow more transparent and streamlined while enhancing the...
Researcher accurately determines energy difference between two quantum states
Our understanding of the universe and the forces that govern it relies on the Standard Model of particle physics. This is done in an experiment that could fit on a table top with ult...
New ocean observations improve understanding of motion
Oceanographers commonly calculate large scale surface ocean circulation from satellite sea level information using a concept called geostrophy, which describes the relationship betwe...
Massive, computer-analyzed geological database reveals chemistry of ancient ocean
Geologists have known for a long time that stromatolites were abundant in shallow marine environments during the Precambrian, before the emergence of multi-cellular life more than 56...
How pollution is changing the ocean’s chemistry
As we keep pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, more of it is dissolving in the oceans, leading to drastic changes in the water’s chemistry. Triona McGrath researches this pro...
How hot is Schrödinger’s coffee?
To obtain precise measurements one needs to use tiny nanoscale thermometers made up of just a few atoms. It turns out that under certain circumstances the uncertainty in temperature ...
How Agile helps non-technical teams get things done
What is Agile? Team Kanban board for tracking contracts (Photo credit: Alvina Nishimoto) Manage interruptions. Team members benefit from having a visual reminder of their priorities...
Extraordinary animation reveals ocean’s role in El Ninos
Australian researchers from the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science have produced a remarkable high-resolution ani...
Deep learning stretches up to scientific supercomputers
Researchers delivered a 15-petaflop deep-learning software and ran it on Cori, a supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a Department of Energy Off...
Decades of data on world’s oceans reveal a troubling oxygen decline
The study, which was published April in Geophysical Research Letters, was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But th...
Computer models show possible impact to world’s oceans of four major stressors due to climate change
Scientists have been conducting experiments designed to understand what that might mean for sea life—but as the researchers with this new effort note, to date, not much work has been...
Artificial intelligence equal to experts in detecting eye diseases
Credit: University College London An artificial intelligence (AI) system, which can recommend the correct referral decision for more than 50 eye diseases, as accurately as experts h...