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- Evidence for solar wind modulation of lightning http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/5/055004/article 3 comments
- First Report of a Solar Energetic Particle Event Observed by Tianwen-1 Mission in Transit to Mars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac80f5/meta 5 comments space
- An independent reanalysis concludes that the ring in EHT M87 picture is an artifact (the 1st image of a black hole) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6ddb 39 comments science
- Soaring CO2 emissions are shrinking the stratosphere https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abfe2b 24 comments science
- Panspermia (hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets,and planetoids) in a Milky Way–like Galaxy https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2829 20 comments science
- New research demonstrates how a so-called toy universe of quantum gravity describes observations of the standard cosmological model. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ac27ee 2 comments science
- On the impossibility of extreme event thresholds in the absence of global warming https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2f1a?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20211110&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily 2 comments science
- Application of Machine Learning and Shapley values (coalition game theory) for studying whether socioeconomic disparities affected the initial spread of COVID-19 in the USA https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072x/ac0fc7 9 comments science
- First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII. Magnetic Field Structure near The Event Horizon https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe4de 3 comments science
- My research note got published! https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abe7ee 97 comments space
- Chronic exposure to hazardous air pollutants is associated with increased COVID-19 mortality. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abaf86 4 comments science
- Astronomers have discovered a star traveling at 8% the speed of light, 24000 km/s around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way! https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9c1c#apjab9c1cf10 1818 comments space
- Electric vehicle adoption: can short experiences lead to big change? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aba715 18 comments science
- Tabletop Quantum Experiment – 4000x Smaller Than Current Devices – Could Detect Gravitational Waves https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/ab9f6c 5 comments science
- New paper describes a toy scenario in which a planet orbiting a black hole remains habitable. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5dab#apjab5dabs2 27 comments space
- Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside, have discovered that powerful winds driven by supermassive black holes in the centers of dwarf galaxies have a significant impact on the evolution of these galaxies by suppressing star formation. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4197 7 comments science
- Peeking at Schrodinger’s Cat Without Disturbing It -- physicists describe a way of measuring a quantum system while keeping its superposition intact. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/ab4451 27 comments science
- Astrophysicists showed that blasts that create gamma-ray bursts may actually exceed the speed of light in surrounding gas clouds, but do so without violating Einstein’s theory of relativity because they only move faster than light does through the jet medium, not faster than light through a vacuum. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab3bdf 140 comments science
- Astronomical object Kepler-13b discovered to be Jupiter-sized exoplanet, not a low-mass star. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2f7b 6 comments science
- Scientists devise a constantly deformable wing optimizable for takeoff, landing, maneuvering, and cruising - design consists of identical building blocks to form a lattice structure that is then covered by polymer film, that can be assembled using robots (has 5.6kg/cubic meter density) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-665x/ab0ea2/meta 3 comments science
- Researchers spotted the formation of planets around a star resembling our Sun. Two rings of dust, at distances comparable to the asteroid belt and the orbit of Neptune, suggest we are witnessing the formation of a planetary system similar to our own https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaeb1c/meta 3 comments science
- Scientists have spotted an unusual young star that is surrounded by a disk of gas and dust — and ordinary table salt. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aafb71/meta 6 comments science
- Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d 5 comments technology
- Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d 4 comments science
- New study shows having less children and not owning a car provide greatest reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Far more effective than recycling, switching to energy efficient products, etc. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541 18 comments science
- Research team discovers a small, dark moon orbiting Makemake, one of the "big four" dwarf planets populating the Kuiper Belt region at the edge of our solar system. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/825/1/l9 3 comments science
- Fusion experiment Wendelstein 7-X launches its first hydrogen plasma today as a major milestone of its scientific roadmap is reached - link to live stream in comments http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0029-5515/55/12/126001/meta 54 comments science
- Possible discovery of a real ninth planet, 10 earth masses orbiting 20 times further away than Neptune. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/22;jsessionid=9dab98eed9cb30448604a2f4ca0f8752.c5.iopscience.cld.iop.org 9 comments science
- The Gravity Probe B test of general relativity - IOPscience http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/32/22/224001/meta;jsessionid=e0d57e8307f196b835f3388a3c6bc6d4.c4.iopscience.cld.iop.org 3 comments science
- Astronomers have found evidence for a new intermediate-mass black hole about 5,000 times the mass of the sun. The discovery adds one more candidate to the list of potential medium-sized black holes, while strengthening the case that these objects do exist. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/811/1/l11/meta;jsessionid=38fcf18bcc19c458c9e0ab98ce8584f8.c1 9 comments science
- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope finds a giant gas halo around the Andromeda galaxy. http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637x/804/2/79/pdf/0004-637x_804_2_79.pdf 3 comments science
- A new system that can potentially be used by people with spinal cord injuries to control their computers wheelchairs [open source] http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/11/5/056026/ 4 comments science
- Aircraft can become more environmentally friendly by choosing flight paths that reduce the formation of their distinctive condensation trails, new research suggests. http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/6/064021/article 3 comments science
- Discovery of the coldest known brown dwarf at a distance of 7.18 light years from the Sun http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/786/2/l18/ 17 comments science
- Different wavelengths of light experience spacetime differently and the big bang may never have happened in the proposed 'Rainbow' Universe. http://iopscience.iop.org/1475-7516/2013/10/052/ 132 comments science
- Study: If we were to optimise usage of crops as currently grown for feeding humans, we could sustain another 4 billion people. http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/3/034015 1118 comments science
- Physicists make breakthrough on ‘invisibility cloak’ - Physicists at the University of Texas in Austin created an invisibility cloak similar to the one foretold in Harry Potter and in Philip K. Dick's "A Scanner Darkly". http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/15/3/033037/article 3 comments science
- Thermoelectric generator converts light and heat to electrical current http://iopscience.iop.org/0957-4484/23/45/455708/ 10 comments science
- Universality of cauliflower-like fronts: from nanoscale thin films to macroscopic plants - IOPscience http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/14/10/103039/article 3 comments science
- Researchers have enhanced primate brains with microchips http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/9/5/056012/article 7 comments science