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- Could bread mold build a better rechargeable battery?
- Could Ireland’s ecosystems cope if we introduced St. Patrick’s scaly foes?
- Hubble unveils monster stars
- Communicating vehicles could ease through intersections more efficiently, study finds
- A source accelerating Galactic cosmic rays to unprecedented energy discovered at the center of the Milky Way
| Could bread mold build a better rechargeable battery? Posted: 17 Mar 2016 11:58 AM PDT You probably don't think much of fungi, and especially those that turn bread moldy, but researchers have evidence that might just change your mind. Their findings suggest that a red bread mold could be the key to producing more sustainable electrochemical materials for use in rechargeable batteries. |
| Could Ireland’s ecosystems cope if we introduced St. Patrick’s scaly foes? Posted: 17 Mar 2016 09:06 AM PDT The legend of St. Patrick banishing snakes from the emerald isle some 1,500 years ago is indelibly etched in folklore -- even if science suggests snakes were unlikely to have colonized the country following the last ice age. But what would happen if St. Patrick's scaly foes were introduced now? Experts believe snakes could certainly slither into Ireland's ecosystems if introduced but would likely cause trouble for native ecosystems. |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2016 08:45 AM PDT Astronomers using the unique ultraviolet capabilities of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have identified nine monster stars with masses over 100 times the mass of the Sun in the star cluster R136. This makes it the largest sample of very massive stars identified to date. The results raise many new questions about the formation of massive stars. |
| Communicating vehicles could ease through intersections more efficiently, study finds Posted: 17 Mar 2016 07:57 AM PDT Imagine a scenario where sensor-laden vehicles pass through intersections by communicating with each other, rather than grinding to a halt at traffic lights. A newly published study claims this kind of traffic-light-free transportation design, if it ever arrives, could allow twice as much traffic to use the roads. |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2016 06:50 AM PDT For more than ten years the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia, run by an international collaboration of 42 institutions in 12 countries, has been mapping the center of our galaxy in very-high-energy gamma rays. These gamma rays are produced by cosmic rays from the innermost region of the Galaxy. A detailed analysis of the latest H.E.S.S. data reveals for the first time a source of this cosmic radiation at energies never observed before in the Milky Way: the supermassive black hole at the center of the Galaxy, likely to accelerate cosmic rays to energies 100 times larger than those achieved at the largest terrestrial particle accelerator |
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