Administrative innovations in south-west Asia during the 4th millennium BCE, including the cylinder seals that were rolled on the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundations for proto-cuneiform script, one of the first writing systems. Seals were rich in iconography, but little research had focused on the potential influence of specific motifs on the development of

Using genome, transcriptome, and proteome analysis of the newly-discovered species of tardigrade, named Hypsibius henanensis, scientists explored the molecular basis contributing to radiotolerance in these tiny invertebrates. Schematic of mechanisms that confer radiotolerance to Hypsibius henanensis. Image credit: Li et al., doi: 10.1126/science.adl0799. Tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are a diverse

Uniper has told pv magazine that it has delayed its 2030 hydrogen investment target. November 5, 2024 Sergio Matalucci Image: pv magazine Uniper has delayed its goal of investing €8 billion ($8.7 billion) in green energy by 2030. It told pv magazine that three factors were behind the decision. “The slight delay in investing the

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, which is visible from the southern hemisphere. This Hubble image shows NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy some 49 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the ultraviolet

Named LID-568, this 7.2-million-solar-mass black hole appears to be feeding on matter at a rate 40 times its Eddington limit and is seen as it existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. An artist’s impression of the accreting black hole LID-568 in the early Universe. Image credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA /

Paleontologists have unearthed and examined a fossilized leg bone of a phorusrhacid bird that lived 12 million years ago in South America. A model of Paraphysornis at the Natural History Museum Vienna. Image credit: Armin Reindl / CC BY-SA 4.0. Terror birds are members of Phorusrhacidae, a family of large, carnivorous, flightless birds within the

Monday 04 November 2024 1:15 pm Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave her first Budget last week. The UK’s recent Budget included a series of measures which have prompted debate over its impact on achieving net zero. While Rachel Reeves announced significant investments in green energy, hydrogen projects and electric vehicle incentives, a number of her decisions

Atomic-scale structures that account for the acceleration of reactivity by heterogeneous catalysts often form only under reaction conditions of high temperatures and pressures, making them impossible to observe with low-temperature, ultra-high-vacuum ...