[ad_1] Illustration of the giant black hole jets known as Porphyrion Caltech A pair of jets blasting out of a black hole spans 23 million light years, the equivalent of 220 Milky Way galaxies in length. This is so large that it may change our understanding both of black holes and the structure of the…
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[ad_1] Jeffrey Miron A standard assumption about elected officials is that they act in the best interests of their constituents. Perhaps that is true in some cases, but more generally they seem motivated by self-interest: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the US government transferred nearly $1 trillion in aid to state and local governments—the…
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[ad_1] In Evotinction, your stealth and hacking skills are needed above all to defend yourself against an infected AI Evotinctionis a bit Watch Dogs and System Shock, but takes a cyberpunk setting and finds its own twist with the protagonist. The game has been very well received on Steam so far The game will be…
[ad_1] More than half of uncollected plastic garbage is burned Tim Gainey/Alamy Around 1.5 billion people around the world do not have access to garbage collection services, and how they dispose of their plastic waste has become a serious environmental problem. Most of these households resort to burning their plastic waste or dumping it in…
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[ad_1] A network of neurons in the brain seems to be larger in people with depression, which could change how we think about the condition’s causes [ad_2]
[ad_1] An artist’s rendering of a futuristic aircraft with morphable wings AFRL / NASA An alloy of titanium and nickel is as strong as steel but stretches like a rubbery polymer. With some clever engineering, it may eventually lead to technologies like shape-shifting aircraft. Imagine a plane with long wings that contract in midair to…
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[ad_1] Astronaut Tim Peake explaining space travel John Gaffen/Alamy Dear readers, New Scientist Live is one of my favourite weekends each year, and so it is with great excitement that I can say it is now just over a month away. On 12 and 13 October, thousands of people will descend on the ExCeL Centre in…
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[ad_1] Venus may have regular quakes linked to the activity of volcanoes like the giant Maat Mons, which towers nearly 5 kilometres above the surrounding plains NASA/JPL There could be thousands of quakes on Venus each year, and we might be able to detect them using balloons floating high above the planet’s surface. Recent observations…
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[ad_1] Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Dozens of quasi-periodic caldera collapse events that generated a considerable amount of geophysical signals occurred during the three-month eruption of the Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, in 2018. This unique dataset is ideal for testing the potential of…
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[ad_1] Kīlauea volcano, on the island of Hawaiʻi, is fed by the Hawaiian hot spot, a plume of buoyant rock and magma that rises through Earth’s mantle and crust. As one of the most active volcanoes in the world, it has for centuries drawn scientific observers to the island, which became the site of one…
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