Complete virtual histology of the modern spruce (a)–(c) and the ancient spruce (d)–(f) obtained by MRI. Credit: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2024). DOI: 10.1039/D4CP02697G In a recent study, rare wooden structures from the Roman Empire were investigated in a wide range of ways using NMR methods. These methods, widely known for their use in hospital […]
Nearly 35 years after its launch, the Hubble Space Telescope is still revealing new things about the cosmos. In a newly released series of images, scientists used Hubble to probe a quasar 2.5 billion light-years away. The results deepen our understanding of how these mysterious objects develop — but also reveal “weird things” in the […]
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole – specifically, the disk of material swirling around it, and the shifting plasma region called the corona. The stellar-mass black hole, part of the binary system Swift J1727.8-1613, was discovered in the summer of 2023 […]
Laser surveys have revealed a massive centuries-old Maya city in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The city contains up to 6,674 structures, including pyramids like the ones at Chichén Itzá and Tikalaccording to a study published Tuesday (Oct. 29) in the journal Antiquity. The researchers used previously created lidar (light detection and ranging) maps, which are created […]
