New Form of Ice Discovered that May Shake Up Our Understanding of Water
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Researchers at University College London and the University of Cambridge have discovered a new type of ice that more closely resembles liquid water than any other known ices and that may rewrite our understanding of water and its many anomalies.
Embers of Ancient Inferno Pinpoint Worst Extinction in Earth's History
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The link between ancient volcanic eruptions and the most severe extinction event the world has ever seen just got even stronger.
Scientists Spot First Gamma-Ray Eclipses from Strange 'Spider' Star Systems
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Astronomers have detected the first gamma-ray eclipses from a "spider" star system, in which a superdense rapidly rotating neutron star called a pulsar is feeding on a stellar companion.
Earth's Inner Core May Have Started Spinning Other Way: Study
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Far below our feet, a giant may have started moving against us. Earth's inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way, research suggested on Monday.
Temperatures on Greenland Warmest in At Least 1,000 Years
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – As humans fiddle with the planet’s thermostat, scientists are piecing together Greenland’s history by drilling ice cores to analyze how the climate crisis has impacted the island country over the years.
Rare, Green Comet to Pass by Earth Starting This Week
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – If you're looking at the night skies over the next month and make out a tiny green light in the sky, don't panic, aliens haven't landed.
Rate of Scientific Breakthroughs Slowing over Time: Study
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The rate of ground-breaking scientific discoveries and technological innovation is slowing down despite an ever-growing amount of knowledge, according to an analysis released Wednesday of millions of research papers and patents.
New Highly Contagious COVID Strain Emerges in UK
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A highly infectious COVID strain has emerged and is already behind one in 25 cases in the UK, surveillance data suggests.
Lawsuit Filed As Apple Watch Gets Racially Biased
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A class action lawsuit filed last week in New York claims that Apple profited at the expense of dark-skinned customers by charging a premium for an Apple Watch that knowingly incorporated a defective "blood oxygen sensor" feature.
Experts Warn of New COVID Variants amid Soaring Cases in China
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Health experts warn that an increase in COVID-19 cases in China as the nation lifts its zero-COVID measures could serve as a "potential breeding ground" for new variants to appear.
Milky Way Has Many Twins
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Studying the large-scale structure of our galaxy isn’t easy. We don’t have a clear view of the Milky Way’s shape and features like we do of other galaxies, largely because we live within it. But we do have some advantages.
Iran Develops Radiopharmaceutical for Cancer Treatment
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A research center of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has produced a radiopharmaceutical used for the treatment of cancerous tumors.
These Two Exoplanets Are Probably Made of Water, Study Finds
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Two far-off planets are likely made of water, according to research conducted using NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer telescopes.
Record Set for Most Distant Galaxy Ever Detected
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Light that has traveled for over 13.4 billion years to reach our neighborhood of space has been confirmed as originating from the earliest, most distant galaxy detected yet.
Star May Have Drawn Scorching ‘Hell Planet' into Super-Close Orbit
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – You thought Venus was hot? While the planet does have an average surface temperature of nearly 500 degrees Celsius, there's an exoplanet just 40 light-years away from Earth that has a surface temperature a scorching three times hotter: 2,000 degrees Celsius.
China Considering to Expand Tiangong Space Station
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Wang Xiang, the head of the space station system at the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), has revealed that the country is going to expand its new space station.
Distant Black Hole Caught in Act of Annihilating A Star
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Astronomers have detected an act of extreme violence more than halfway across the known universe as a black hole shreds a star that wandered too close to this celestial savage.
Elon Musk Claims Human Brain-Chip Could Start Trials in 6 Months
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Elon Musk has claimed that a wireless chip developed by his company Neuralink could start human clinical trials in six months.
