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Understanding the wakes and vortices that jellyfish produce as they swim is crucial, according to Wu, et al. Particle image velocimetry (PIV) is a vital tool for studying flow phenomena and biomechanical propulsion. PIV essentially tracks tiny tracer particles suspended in water by illuminating them with laser light. The technique usually relies on hollow glass spheres, polystyrene beads, aluminum flakes, …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more efficient water seekers than our closest extinct relatives. About 600,000 years ago, modern humans genetically diverged from the lineage that produced …

The dark skies surrounding this weekend’s new moon phase present an excellent opportunity to spot a trio of star clusters and stellar alignments embedded in the glowing band of the Milky Way. Star clusters are collections of gravitationally bound stellar bodies that formed from the same cloud of interstellar material. They can range in size from dozens, to thousands of …

A new discovery has just brought the total number of Uranus’s known moons to 29. In the space close to the icy planet, outside its ephemeral rings, JWST snapped a tiny object that no one had ever seen before, not even in data from the Voyager 2 probe that flew past Uranus at a close distance in 1986. It’s probably …

A team of scientists at the Southwest Research Institute, using photography commissioned from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, have discovered a previously unknown moon in our solar system that’s in a “nearly circular” orbit around Uranus. Just six miles in diameter, our little neighbor is so small that no telescope has been powerful enough …

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IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Astronomers discovered the Midpoint cloud, a vast structure within the Milky Way, revealing new insights into star formation. 🔭 The Green Bank Telescope was instrumental in identifying this Giant Molecular Cloud located in an underexplored region of the galaxy. 🌠 The cloud’s dense gas clumps and masers indicate active star-forming regions, contributing to our understanding of …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Paleontologists have discovered a new dinosaur species with a very distinctive feature, a sail-like structure running down its back, the Natural History Museum in London announced on Friday. The bones of Istiorachis macarthurae, named in honor of record-breaking British sailor Ellen MacArthur, were uncovered on the Isle of Wight, a small island just off the south …

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