image: Pre-harvest rice germination occurred in different provinces of China in 2020 see After Credit: IGDB Seed dormancy is an important survival tool for plants as it allows them to cope with weather conditions that are not conducive to survival. At the same time, excessive dormancy can reduce cultivation time. In response, farmers often plant …
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“Gravitational waves will bring us extremely accurate maps of black holes – maps of their space-time. These maps will clearly indicate whether or not we are dealing with black holes as described by general relativity,” said the winner of the Nobel Prize, Caltech. Kip Thorne. Scientists at Cardiff University’s Gravity Exploration Institute are using the …
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Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University have solved a decades-old mystery about how cells control their volume. Crowded rooms: how researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh solved a cellular mystery. A surreal video of stressed cells under a microscope has inspired a group of kidney physiologists and …
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Most galaxies are built around huge black holes. While many of them are relatively docile, like the one at the center of our Milky Way, some are ferocious – gobbling up surrounding material and releasing huge jets of extremely bright high-energy particles far into space. Using data from the recently deployed Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer …
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Did you know: lightning can strike the same place several times? For example, the Empire State Building would be struck by lightning approximately 23 times per year. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain The odds of being struck by lightning are less than one in a million, but those odds dropped dramatically this month when more than …
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