Sun’s fury may change the weather on distant worlds — and maybe even ours
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A new study led by scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, NASA, the Florida Institute of Technology, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and the University of Oxford has uncovered a connection between solar flares — sudden outbursts of radiation from stars — and short-term weather patterns on distant Earth-like planets.
An international group of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have shown that we will be able to learn about the masses of the earliest stars by studying a specific radio signal – created by hydrogen atoms filling the gaps between star-forming regions – originating just a hundred million years after the Big Bang.
A Chinese research team has successfully utilized geostationary satellite communication (632 ms latency) to remotely control robotic surgical systems in Beijing from Lhasa, performing precision liver resection surgeries on two liver cancer patients. Intraoperative robotic arm tracking error remained below 0.5 mm, with both patients discharged within 24 hours postoperatively and no severe complications reported. This study marks the first validation of safety in remote surgery under high-latency satellite conditions, offering a groundbreaking solution for underserved regions, disaster zones, and space medicine.
Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist.
The theory also argues that time comes in three dimensions rather than just the single one we experience as continual forward progression. Space emerges as a secondary manifestation.
Serendipitous discovery of djerfisherite in Ryugu grain challenges current paradigm of the nature of primitive asteroids.
Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our galaxy, the thread could contain some of the universe’s ‘missing’ matter, addressing a decades-long mystery.