Zwicky Transient Facility detects four ultracompact binaries
ZTF data of ZTF20aabowdt. On the left, the upper panel shows the lightcurve, the middle panel shows the folded lightcurve (P = 25.92 minutes), and the final panel shows the …
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Lula vetos part of Brazil’s controversial pesticide bill
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday vetoed key parts of a controversial law that is set to loosen the rules around the use …
NREL research quantifies losses from cardboard, paper waste
Paper and cardboard waste landfilled in 2019 by type and state. The pie charts’ sizes represent the quantity of landfilled material in kilotons. The material types are shown as a …
Juvenile sperm whale euthanized after stranding on North Carolina beach
A mother sperm whale and her calf off the coast of Mauritius. The calf has remoras attached to its body. Credit: Gabriel Barathieu/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 2.0 A juvenile sperm whale that …
Russia, NASA agree to continue joint ISS flights until 2025
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Russian and US space agencies have agreed to keep working together to deliver crews to the International Space Station (ISS) until at least 2025, Russian corporation …
Japan sets third launch attempt of next-gen rocket for February
Credit: Pixabay from Pexels Japan’s space agency announced Thursday it will launch its next-generation H3 rocket in February after two failed attempts early this year. The rocket, billed as a …
Studying combustion and fire safety
Image of a flame burning one of the BASS tests on extinguishing burning fuels. Credit: NASA Research on the International Space Station is helping scientists to understand how fire spreads …
In Colombia, illegally felled timber repurposed to help bees
Bees need hives to store honey and feed themselves in winter. In northeast Colombia, police guard warehouses stacked high with confiscated timber with a noble new destiny: transformation into homes …
Oil spill blackens part of Venezuela’s western coast
Oil sludge is seen on a beach near the El Palito oil refinery in Venezuela’s Carabobo state on December 27, 2023. An oil spill is sloshing tarry ooze onto beaches …
Further evidence for quark-matter cores in massive neutron stars
Artist’s impression of the different layers inside a massive neutron star, with the red circle representing a sizable quark-matter core. Credit: Jyrki Hokkanen, CSC Neutron-star cores contain matter at the …