Example images of a landfill with methane emissions from the work face. Credit: Environmental Science & Technology (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c07572 A team has found via testing from airplanes that landfill work faces tend to be responsible for the biggest share of methane emissions in U.S. landfills. Their findings are published in the journal Environmental Science […]
Illustration of the Kepler-51 system and its inner three planets, which have unusually low density. New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope suggest that at least one more planet is in the system. Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Hustak, J. Olmsted, D. Player and F. Summers (STScI) An unusual planetary system with three known […]
RGB NIRCam image of Westerlund 1. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.13051 An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a supermassive Galactic open cluster known as Westerlund 1. Results of the observational campaign, presented in a paper published Nov. 20 on the arXiv preprint server, yield important insights […]
Screenshots of www.sewagemap.co.uk focusing on rivers around Oxford. The brown lines are rivers and streams downstream of recent sewage spills. Taken on 10 October 2024 after a period of wet weather. Credit: Alex Lipp. A new computational method developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London uses an innovative new technique […]
