[ad_1] For thousands of years, the delicacy Fritillaria delavayi has grown slowly on the rocky slopes of China’s Hengduan Mountains, producing a bright green flower after its fifth year. But the remarkable little plant has a deadly enemy: the people, who harvest the flower for traditional Chinese medicine. As the commercial harvest has intensified, Fritillaria … Read more
[ad_1] Environmentalists have drawn up the world’s first-ever bee diversity map to help track the distribution of vital pollinator populations. There are around 20,000 species of bees that live on Earth – but precise, compiled data on their distribution was lacking. Chinese, Singaporean and American researchers have analyzed and validated nearly 6 million different data … Read more
[ad_1] A view showing how the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction will appear in a telescope pointed to the western horizon at 6 p.m. CST, December 21, 2020. The image is adapted from graphics by the open-source planetarium software Stellarium. Credit: Patrick Hartigan, GPL-2.0, provided under CC BY 4.0 Just after sunset on the evening of December 21, … Read more
[ad_1] Fritillaria delavayi in a population with high harvest pressure. Credit: Yang Niu A plant used in traditional Chinese medicine has evolved to be less visible to humans, new research shows. Scientists have found that plants of Fritillaria delavayi, which live on the rocky slopes of China’s Hengduan Mountains, most closely match their origins in … Read more
[ad_1] The photos of the RMIT team showed that regular diamonds only form in the middle of these veins of Lonsdaleite according to this new method developed by the interinstitutional team. Credit: RMIT An international team of scientists have challenged nature to make diamonds in minutes in a room-temperature laboratory – a process that normally … Read more
[ad_1] WATCH: A meteor seen across the Rio Grande valley on Thursday eveningKGBT television Will it be clear enough to see meteor showers?KOIN.com Stunning photos show ‘meteor’ hovering in the sky over PlymouthPlymouth Live View full coverage on Google News [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] In 2004, astronomers found something really bizarre. About 6,200 light years away, a star was found surrounded by a ring-shaped nebula glowing in invisible ultraviolet light. There is nothing else like it in the Milky Way galaxy, which makes it difficult to understand how and why the object, named the Blue Ring Nebula, arrived … Read more
[ad_1] An artist’s impression of what the Milky Way might look like from above. The colored rings show the approximate extent of the fossil galaxy known as Heracles. The yellow point indicates the position of the sun. Credit: Danny Horta-Darrington (John Moores University, Liverpool), NASA / JPL-Caltech and SDSS Scientists working with data from the … Read more
[ad_1] Thanh Nguyen has a habit of breaking down barriers. Take languages as an example: Nguyen, a third-year nuclear science and engineering (NSE) doctoral student, wanted to “connect with other people and cultures” for his work and social life, he says, so he learned Vietnamese, French, German and Russian, and is currently taking an MIT … Read more
[ad_1] Sampling of microbes from Portrait of a man in red chalk by Vinci (1512) Credit: The authors Leonardo da Vinci’s work is a priceless 15th century heritage. From engineering to anatomy, the master paved the way for many scientific disciplines. But what could Da Vinci’s drawings teach us? Could molecular studies reveal interesting data … Read more