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23Feb 202123 Feb 2021

How Do Rotating Black Holes Form In Higher Dimensions? (Astronomy)

Summary: Black holes are generically formed by gravitational collapse of a dust cloud under its own gravity or accretion of…

18Feb 202119 Feb 2021

What Wormholes Generate? (Astronomy)

Traversable wormhole arises as a solution to the Einstein field equations and was first proposed by Morris and Thorne as…

15Feb 202115 Feb 2021

How Would A Particle Travel Through A Rotating Wormhole? (Astronomy / Quantum)

Summary: ☸ In 1988, Morris and Throne proposed a static spherically symmetric wormhole. In order to kept this wormhole open…

Planetary Science

Why Hot Jupiter’s Have Large Radius? (Planetary Science)

25 Feb 202125 Feb 2021

Summary: ○ Huber and colleagues, in their recent paper provided new insights on the unexpectedly large radii of hot Jupiters. They showed that radius of some hot Jupiters increase with…

Novel Microorganism Has Potential to Treat High-ammonium Wastewater (Earth Science)

Water pollution has become more and more serious, and the main pollutant in most water bodies is nitrogen. Microbial nitrification/denitrification is one of the most effective nitrogen removal pathways for wastewater.…

Researchers Reveal Roles of Protein O-GlcNAcylation in Modulating Human Placental Trophoblast Differentiation (Biology)

O-linked β-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is a reversible and ubiquitous post-translational modification in eukaryotic cells, it involves in embryonic development or fetal health, whereas the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. The placenta is a…

Botany

Key Regulator of Lateral Organ Size of Legume Plants Determined (Botany)

Organ size is important for plants' adaptation and survival and it influences the final yield and quality of crops. Legume plants are significant sources of plant-based protein for consumption by humans and…

Botany

New Species of Mustard Family of Flowering Plants Found in Hengduan Mountains (Botany)

Rorippa is a cosmopolitan weed genus in the Brassicaceae, the mustard family of flowering plants. It is a large genus of chiefly weedy aquatic or marsh herbs that have pinnate or pinnatifid leaves, yellow…

Researchers Discover Mechanism Behind Influence of Irradiation Defects on Tritium Permeation Barrier (Physics)

Recently, researchers led by Prof. ZHOU Haishan from the Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) reported their new findings about the influence of irradiation effects on hydrogen permeation…

Planetary Science

SwRI Scientist Captures Evidence of Dynamic Seasonal Activity on a Martian Sand Dune (Planetary Science)

A Southwest Research Institute scientist examined 11 Mars years of image data to understand the seasonal processes that create linear gullies on the slopes of the megadune in the Russell…