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22 April 2021, 01:04 pm ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey team used a natural cosmic telescope to find a rotating baby galaxy. The involved scientists claimed that modern space telescope models couldn't do this. (Photo : Photo by NASA/ESA via Getty Images) This handout image of the giant, active galaxy NGC 1275, obtained August 21, 2008 was taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope?s Advanced Camera for Surveys in July and August 2006. It provides amazing detail and resolution of fragile filamentary structures, which show up as a reddish lacy structure surrounding the central bright galaxy. T...

(European Synchrotron Radiation Facility/Phys.Org) The functioning of the enzyme FAP, useful for producing biofuels and for green chemistry, has been decrypted. This result mobilized an international team of scientists, including many French researchers from the CEA, CNRS, Inserm, École Polytechnique, the universities of Grenoble Alpes, Paris-Saclay and Aix Marseille, as well as the European Synchrotron (ESRF) and synchrotron SOLEIL. The study is published in  Science on April 09, 2021. The researchers decrypted the operating mechanisms of FAP (Fatty Acid Photodecarboxylase), which is nat...

Image Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers Microcombs are small photonic devices that could help improve the energy efficiency of the internet, monitor our health, or even discover new Earth-like exoplanets. Swedish researchers have developed a unique, game-changing microcomb that could bring these advanced applications a step closer. What is a Microcomb? A frequency comb is a unique laser source where the emission spectrum consists of a series of discrete, equally spaced frequency lines. It works similarly to a ruler made of light; markers set the frequency scale across the electromagnetic spec...

11 March 2021, 11:20 am EST By NASA released a space recording that was taken on the Perseverance rover last February. The audio was captured by the SuperCam instrument, which the Los Alamos National Laboratory developed. The said instrument has been a useful venture of the French Space Agency in carrying out its operations like capturing the audio of laser zaps from the other distant planet.  SuperCam Instrument is now a reality (Photo : Screenshot from YouTube/Gateway to Knowledge) Experts say that the first recording captured by SuperCam on Perseverance rover sounds like Earth breeze. In...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment/Phys.Org)  … (A)llocating CRP land for high-yielding energy biomass might eliminate the need for bioenergy crops and food crops to vie for space. A team led by CABBI Sustainability Theme Leader Madhu Khanna and Ph.D. student Luoye Chen developed an integrated modeling approach to assess the viability of transitioning CRP land in the eastern U.S. to perennial bioenergy crops. Their paper, published in  Environmental Science & Technology in January 2021, confirmed that the land-use transition ...