Tag: Science news

Can you imagine being able to conceal highly sensitive information inside the chemical structure of ink? Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell have just made it possible.  The researchers...

An undergraduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found interesting details about the growth of stars and black holes. Her findings provide key insights into how the growth of stars and supermassive black holes are linked. ...

Most computers work with zeroes and ones, also known as binary information. From coffee machines to self-driving cars, almost every utility is powered by computers. Most of the quantum computers in the present day are designed with binary...

A team of astronomers have discovered that jets, which are beams of matter ejected from astronomical objects, significantly change the internal and external pressure of molecular clouds in their path. The astronomers measured the gas pressure in jet-impacted...

An astronomer has created a breathtakingly beautiful image using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. It is an image of a ‘purple galaxy’ known as Messier 74 (M74). The galaxy is located 32 million light years away...

A team of astronomers known for exposing false black hole discoveries have found a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The Large Magellanic Cloud floats in space 200,000...

People living in urban areas are becoming increasingly interested in agriculture. However, the soils in cities pose a hidden danger: lead.  Researchers at the University of Illinois have found universally elevated lead levels in soils across Chicago, an...

Researchers at Cornell University have found that dogs’ sense of smell is connected with their vision and other unique parts of the brain. Their study is the first documentation of the link between dogs’ vision and smell.  The...

Over 8% of Indian women of reproductive age had unmet contraceptive needs in 2019, according to a study published in The Lancet. Female sterilisation is the most commonly used method in India, accounting for 62.2 per cent of...

Scientists have observed biofluorescence in lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) for the first time. They found that individual lumpfish were illuminated with a certain lighting for photography.  The study describing the findings has been accepted for publication in the Journal...