World’s Largest Lakes Reveal Climate Change Trends

[ad_1] The map shows the average production for 2008 in the Laurentian Great Lakes region. The lake’s production values ​​range from low (blue) to high (red). Credit: Karl Bosse / MTRI Sixteen years of remote sensing data show that in the largest freshwater lakes on earth, climate change is influencing carbon sequestration trends. NASA-funded research … Read more

Fornax A galaxy studied with AstroSat

[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public Domain Using the AstroSat spacecraft, Indian astronomers performed an imaging and spectroscopy study of the Fornax A galaxy. The results of the study, published on January 13 on the arXiv preprint server, provide more clues about the properties of the galaxy and the ultraviolet emission of this source. Located about 62 … Read more

Gigantic fossil could belong to the greatest dinosaur of all time

[ad_1] Paleontologists have discovered the fossil remains of a “titanosaur” in Argentina, which they believe may be the largest dinosaur of all time. And while they’ve only discovered a few bones so far, there’s no doubt they’re from a monster. One that was probably over 120 feet from head to tail and weighed 220,000 pounds. … Read more

Your wandering mind is a ‘feature’, not a bug

[ad_1] Share this Item You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Researchers have found a way to track the flow of our internal thought processes and signal whether our minds are focused, fixed, or wandering. Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to measure brain activity while people performed mundane attention tasks, … Read more

The terrifying sea lizard that roamed the waters 66 million years ago had deadly shark-shaped teeth

[ad_1] The terrifying sea lizard that roamed the coast of Africa 66 million years ago had deadly shark-shaped teeth that could cut fish in half with just one bite. Scientists have discovered fossilized remains of new species of mosasaur Mosasuars were giant sea lizards that lived alongside dinosaurs This species was discovered to have shark … Read more

SpaceX set to run final Starship SN9 test ahead of first launch

[ad_1] SpaceX is preparing to test the ninth prototype of its large, shiny rocket, Starship SN9 on Wednesday, January 20, firing its engines for what should be the last time before its maiden flight. The test is scheduled before 5 p.m. central time. The rocket will go nowhere during this “static fire” test. (Or at … Read more

Glaciers on Mars reveal the planet’s many ice ages

[ad_1] The Red Planet has experienced between six and 20 distinct ice ages over the past 300 to 800 million years, a new analysis of glaciers on Mars has found. During the last ice age on Earth 20,000 years ago, our planet was covered with glaciers. These glaciers then retreated to the poles. These ice … Read more

Optical data transmission speed increased by a factor of at least 10,000

[ad_1] Abstract illustration. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Pulsed lasers emit light repeatedly for a short time as if blinking. They have the advantage of focusing more energy than a continuous wave laser, the intensity of which remains unchanged over time. If digital signals are loaded into a pulsed laser, each pulse … Read more