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Dusting off the iron hypothesis - Nature Geoscience
2+ hour, 40+ min ago (157+ words) Erosion by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet can supply iron to the Southern Ocean, with iron solubility as important as iron quantity in shaping ocean productivity and carbon cycling. The future projection of ocean carbon dynamics will therefore require integration…...
See the Sun expand and contract like a pufferfish — January’s best science images
15+ hour, 1+ min ago (169+ words) Other entries include a shot of a physicist working at a deep excavation site for an underground research facility aiming to house future generations of science, and an image of equipment in the superconducting laboratory at CERN, Europe's particle-physics lab…...
Science finds its song
16+ hour, 14+ min ago (879+ words) Jane Palmer is a freelance writer based in Colorado. Geoscientist Hiroto Nagai composed music about Earth's climate system using meteorological data from the polar regions.Credit: K. R. Araragi When Colin Campbell stood before colleagues at a chemistry-department gathering last February at…...
Largest galaxy survey yet confirms that the Universe is not clumpy enough
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (214+ words) The Dark Energy Survey observed around 150 million galaxies visible in Earth's southern sky. Credit: Erin Sheldon and the DES Collaboration Astronomers have released the most ambitious cosmic map assembled so far, confirming that matter in the Universe is less clumpy…...
A binary model of long-period radio transients and white dwarf pulsars - Nature Astronomy
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (1309+ words) Nature Astronomy (2026)Cite this article The code used for the geometric model and MCMC fitting is available via GitHub at github.com/CsanadHorvath/GeometricLPT.git. Buckley, D. A. H., Meintjes, P. J., Potter, S. B., Marsh, T. R. & G'nsicke, B. T. Polarimetric evidence of a white dwarf pulsar in the binary…...
Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of anammox bacteria and ancient nitrogen loss - Nature Ecology & Evolution
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (1543+ words) Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026)Cite this article Humbert, S. et al. Molecular detection of anammox bacteria in terrestrial ecosystems: distribution and diversity. ISME J. 4, 450454 (2010). Sun, J. et al. Potential growth of anammox bacteria under aerobic conditions. Environ. Sci. Technol. 58, 1824418254 (2024). Lawson, C. E. et al. Autotrophic and…...
Disentangling multiple gas kinematic drivers in the Perseus galaxy cluster
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (1757+ words) Nature (2026)Cite this article Vikhlinin, A. A., Kravtsov, A. V., Markevich, M. L., Sunyaev, R. A. & Churazov, E. M. Clusters of galaxies. Phys. Usp. 57, 317341 (2014). Fabian, A. C. Observational evidence of active galactic nuclei feedback. Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 50, 455489 (2012). Kravtsov, A. V. & Borgani, S. Formation of galaxy clusters. Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 50, 353409 (2012). Simionescu, A. et al. Constraining…...
Radiation-tolerant atomic-layer-scale RF system for spaceborne communication
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (1548+ words) Nature (2026)Cite this article Source data are provided with the paper. All other data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding authors on request. Chen, Y. A. et al. An integrated space-to-ground quantum communication network over 4,600 kilometres....
An X-ray-emitting protocluster at z ≈ 5.7 reveals rapid structure growth
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (1833+ words) White contours show the 37-keV band emission. The map incorporates the probability of having a 0.32.0-keV band detection, a 37-keV band non-detection and a radially declining surface brightness profile. The position of the protocluster is highlighted with a magenta circle…...
Alternative explanation for how celestial objects generate large-scale magnetic fields
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (210+ words) This is a summary of: Tripathi, B. et al. Large-scale dynamos driven by shear-flow-induced jets. Nature 649, 848852 (2026). Matthaeus, W. H., Pouquet, A., Mininni, P. D., Dmitruk, P. & Breech, B. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 085003 (2008). Parker, E. N. Astrophys. J. 122, 293 (1955). Price, D. J. & Rosswog, S. Science 312, 719722 (2006). Rahbarnia, K. et al. Astrophys. J. 759, 80 (2012). An X-ray-emitting protocluster at z " 5.7 reveals rapid structure…...