Plants Respond to Touch Sending Different Signals Through Their Cells, Shows New Study
When prodded with a tiny glass rod, leaves released waves of calcium signals to cells that quickly diminish after the touch.
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New Solar System Found Where Planets Orbit Two Suns-Just like Luke Skywalker's Home in Star Wars
Tatooine, the desert home planet of Luke Skywalker was imagined as a desert world with two suns when Star Wars was first released in 1977.
Firefighting Drone Can Douse Wildfires From Above the Hillsides Where Firefighters Can't Go
In a demonstration video, a pile of burning roadside brush the size of a 4-door sedan was snuffed out by the jets in about 15 seconds.
10-year-old's Backyard Discovery Reveals 'Mind-blowing' Interaction Between Plants and Insects
2 years ago, little Hugo Deans from Pennsylvania found some red-colored seeds on the ground by an ant's nest in his backyard. Hugo was excited—he didn't know ants collected seeds, and his excitement grew when he showed his father Andrew, an entomologist at Penn State, who didn't know they did either. The two bug enthusiasts […]
Single Atom X-rayed For First Time in Breakthrough That Will 'Transform the World'
The best that current state-of-the-art synchrotron scanners can manage is to X-ray an attogram-about 10,000 atoms.
Astronomers Discover Hundreds of Mysterious Filaments Pointing Towards Our Milky Way's Massive Black Hole
Astronomers have found hundreds of mysterious filaments pointing towards the Milky Way's supermassive black hole.
New Dinosaur With Rows of Bristles On its Head Like a Toothbrush Has Been Discovered
Paleontologists who discovered the beast completed a CT scan on the skull and revealed these bristles, described like a "brush cut."
X-rays and Webb Telescope Provide Dazzling Views of Space Invisible to the Unaided Eye
These images are composite pieces of technological artwork that would be invisible to the naked eye because of the X-rays detected by Chandra
World's Oldest Homo Sapiens Footprint Discovered-And it's 153,000 Years Old
The footprints were natural casts, and could be dated back 153,000 years ago by determining when light last touched the grains of sand.
Creating Electricity From Moisture in the Air, Even in the Sahara Desert
It creates a charge imbalance, like that in a cloud, as the upper part increased its charge relative to the lower part
Gigatons of Carbon Could be Captured in Offshore Underwater Volcanoes: A Boon for Climate
Once in the bowels of this extinct volcano, calcium, magnesium, and iron react to and entrap the incoming carbon dioxide to form calcite.
Revolutionary New Clean Fuel Developed that Could See Cars Being Powered by Sunshine
The solar-powered technology converts carbon dioxide and water into liquid fuels that can be directly dropped into a vehicle's engine.
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