Scientists Create Golden Drop of Metallic Water
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Pure water is not a good conductor of electricity. It is, in fact, an electrical insulator. In order to conduct electricity, water must contain dissolved salts, for example, yet the conductivity of such an electrolyte is relatively low, several orders lower than that of metals.
Earth's Energy Imbalance Removes Almost All Doubt from Human-Made Climate Change
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – For decades, Earth’s energy system has been out of whack. Stability in Earth's climate hinges on a delicate balance between the amount of energy the planet absorbs from the sun and the amount of energy Earth emits back into space.
COVID-19 Death Toll in Iran Exceeds 90,000
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran has risen to 90,074, with 292 more Iranians succumbing to the deadly disease in the last 24 hours, according to the country’s Health Ministry.
Closest, Second-Coldest Imaged Exoplanet Found to Date
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Astronomers discovered thousands of exoplanets—planets beyond our solar system, but few have been directly imaged, because they are extremely difficult to see with existing telescopes.
Easing COVID-19 Restrictions Early Could Lead to Vaccine Resistance
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Researchers have warned that relaxing COVID-19 limitations too soon might lead to vaccine-resistant virus strains and new variations developing due to low global inoculation rates.
Hubble Image Shows Gravity Bending Light, Magnifying A Distant Galaxy
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – We tend to think that light travels in a straight line, but this is not always the case in our universe, when strong enough, gravity can pull photons of light out of their trajectory.
Coronavirus Fatalities Up by Almost One Third Worldwide over Past Week
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The number of coronavirus-related deaths, registered worldwide in the past seven days, grew by 30% compared to the previous seven-day period, reaching about 70,000, according to TASS calculations.
Astronomers Confirm Discovery of Moon-Forming Disk around Young Exoplanet
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Two years ago, astronomers spotted an apparent circumplanetary disk around a planet outside of our solar system, but they couldn’t be certain.
Hubble Releases Images of Rarely Observed Colliding Galaxies after Monthlong Shutdown
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in action after a computer anomaly suddenly shut down the 32-year-old system for a month.
Mountains on Neutron Stars May Be Millimeters High
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions of millimeters high, due to the huge gravity on the ultra-dense objects.
Jumping Spiders Seem to Have a Cognitive Ability Only Previously Found in Vertebrates
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Tiny little jumping spiders, with their magnificent eyes, seem to be able to do something we'd only ever seen before in vertebrates: distinguishing between animate and inanimate objects.
Ancient Microfossils of Primordial Microbes Found in 3.4 Billion-Year-Old Rocks
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Newly discovered microfossils some 3.42 billion years old are the oldest evidence yet of a particular type of methane-cycling microbe life – and they could help us understand how life gets started in the first place, both on Earth and further out into the Universe.
Strange Chemical on Venus May Come from Volcanoes
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A mysterious whiff of an unstable chemical in the skies of Venus may not be a sign of life but the result of explosive volcanic eruptions, a new study finds.
Moon’s ‘Wobble’ Shift in 2030 Could Be Bad News for Coastal Cities
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – As the moon orbits around the Earth, the two celestial bodies, together with the sun, line up in ways that influence how gravity acts on our planet.
Earth's Atmosphere Retaining Heat Faster Than It Did 15 Years Ago
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – These days it seems you can't walk through a bookstore without bumping into a book or magazine pointing out the negative consequences of climate change. Everything from the hottest years on record to ruining astronomy can be tied to climate change.
Mystery of Jupiter’s Strange Pulsating X-Ray Auroras Solved
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Jupiter is a stunning planet in many ways, with its beautiful bands of clouds, the largest storm in the solar system, and unusual phenomena like geometric storms at its poles.
Taking A Cup of Coffee A Day Turbocharges Immune System against Coronavirus
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – According to a major study, drinking one cup of coffee every day reduces the risk of contracting COVID-19 by around a tenth.
New Type of Space Explosion 10 Times More Energetic Than A Supernova Found
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Until recently it was thought neutron star mergers were the only way heavy elements (heavier than zinc) could be produced. These mergers involve the mashup of the remnants of two massive stars in a binary system.
