Dec 22, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A new snapshot of an ancient, far-off galaxy could help scientists understand how it formed and the origins of our own Milky Way. The study has been published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ("Detecting a disk bending wave in a barred-spiral galaxy...
Organic compounds in asteroids formed in colder regions of space
Dec 22, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Analysis of organic compounds – called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) – extracted from the Ryugu asteroid and Murchison meteorite has found that certain PAHs likely formed in the cold areas of space between stars rather than in hot regions near stars as was previously thought....
Nanoscale patterns revealed within model research organism
Dec 22, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Species throughout the animal kingdom feature vital interfaces between the outermost layers of their bodies and the environment. Intricate microscopic structures—featured on the outer skin layers of humans, as one example—are known to assemble in matrix patterns. But how these complex structures, known as apical...