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Our special feature serves as a reminder of how much asking when has already taught us about the grand sweep of cosmic and terrestrial history, from the switching on of the first stars to the first life on this planet.
They found that "it covered 360 hectares [890 acres], with over 1,100 buildings, four kilometres [2.5 miles] of walls, a network of internal roads and a clearly organized urban layout with temples and communal spaces such as ballcourts, and the elites and commoners lived in separate neighbourhoods," according to astatement describing the research.
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Mount Spurr, a snow-covered stratovolcano that sits 77 miles (124 kilometers) across the Cook Inlet from Anchorage, has been shuddering with small earthquakes since April 2024, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO).
"NICER's ability to steer to pretty much any part of the sky and monitor for weeks has been instrumental in our understanding of these unusual cosmic explosions," explained Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher and team member Dheeraj Pasham.
There are hockey sticks, softball catcher pads, golf clubs, balls of all sorts, bikes, inline skates, a mesh goal, and a super cute white motor scooter.
To learn more about its origins, Lindy McBride at Princeton University and her colleagues analysed the DNA of 790 mosquitoes from 44 countries around the world, including the molestus and pipiens forms as well as some closely related species.
In the dorsal raphe nucleus – a part of the brainstem linked to functions including eating, mood and sleep – they came across cells that produce a hormone called cholecystokinin, which helps regulate appetite.
It is published by the Society for Science, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education (EIN 53-0196483).
Researchers have been capturing cosmic rays with different detectors for more than a century because their changing properties could serve as records of the solar system’s history, says Jamie Rankin at Princeton University.
“The core point of the study is they don’t use hard-core gene engineering or editing technologies or transgenic approaches,” says le Coutre.