Tag: Natural sciences
Prices of Urea and MOP fertilizer to be reduced
COLOMBO (News 1st) – The Ministry of Agriculture has decided to reduce the price of urea and MOP fertilizer. Accordingly, the price of a 50 kg…
Until now, certain biomarkers, the ‘protosteroids,’ have been overlooked as fossil witnesses to primordial life — ScienceDaily
Newly discovered biomarker signatures point to a whole range of previously unknown organisms that dominated complex life on Earth about a billion years ago. They…
Elusive planets play ‘hide and seek’ with CHEOPS — ScienceDaily
With the help of the CHEOPS space telescope an international team of European astronomers managed to clearly identify the existence of four new exoplanets. The…
Tunisia’s financial crisis leaves the sick struggling to find medicine
TUNIS: Sick Tunisians face a frantic struggle to find some medicines because the cash-strapped state has reduced imports, leaving doctors unable to control debilitating health…
The small, distant galaxy JD1 is typical of the kind that burned through hydrogen left over from the Big Bang — ScienceDaily
After the Big Bang, the universe expanded and cooled sufficiently for hydrogen atoms to form. In the absence of light from the first stars and…
The system, named TOI-2096, consists of two planets orbiting a cool star in a synchronized dance at approximately 150 light-years from Earth. — ScienceDaily
A study led by researchers of the University of Liège and the CSIC — using observations from NASA’s TESS telescope — presents the detection of…
Amputees feel warmth in their missing hand — ScienceDaily
An unexpected discovery about temperature feedback has led to new bionic technology that allows amputees to sense the temperature of objects – both hot and…
Webb finds water vapor, but from a rocky planet or its star? — ScienceDaily
The most common stars in the universe are red dwarf stars, which means that rocky exoplanets are most likely to be found orbiting such a…
Direct image of a black hole expelling a powerful jet — ScienceDaily
For the first time, astronomers have observed, in the same image, the shadow of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87…
Elusive intermediate-mass black holes take a few bites, then eject the leftovers — ScienceDaily
If they exist, intermediate-mass black holes likely devour wayward stars like a messy toddler — taking a few bites and then flinging the remains across…
