Jupiter, king of the gods in Roman mythology, shrouded himself in clouds to hide his true nature. But his wife, the goddess Juno, was able to peer past this veil and reveal his mischievous behavior. It is fitting, then, that the NASA spacecraft now circling Jupiter the planet is named […]
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Pluto’s Wispy Atmosphere May Be Surprisingly Robust
The thin environment of Pluto may be much more resilient than experts imagined The dwarf planet’s thin shell of air is generated by the vaporization of floor ices, which prospects to the lofting of nitrogen and modest amounts of methane and other gases. That vaporization is pushed by daylight, the depth of […]
Bacterial Biofilms Have ‘Memory’ That Works in a Surprisingly Similar Way to Neurons
Microorganisms aren’t perfectly acknowledged for their smarts. They mature, they adapt, and they mature some extra, but we you should not generally catch them remembering items. Now, researchers from the University of California (UC), San Diego, have utilized light-weight to imprint a ‘memory’ on a bacterial biofilm – and learned […]