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This Earth-like exoplanet may have magnetic fields, suggests new study Article @EverythingScience

Scientists Say The Moon Needs Its Own Lunar Time Zone. Here's Why. Article @EverythingScience

Physicists Claim Creation of a Superconductor at Near-Ambient Conditions Few discoveries in science would revolutionize technology as much as a material that achieves superconductivity at room temperature, under relatively mild pressures. A team of physicists led by Ranga Dias, a physicist from the University of Rochester in New York now claims they might have cracked it, demonstrating a rare earth metal called lutetium combined with hydrogen and nitrogen can conduct electricity without resistance at 21 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Fahrenheit) and around just 10,000 atmospheres of pressure, the team reports. If confirmed by other researchers, this would be a huge breakthrough in creating devices that don't waste energy on heat when producing a current. Ideally this could one day be used to create more efficient computers; faster, frictionless maglev trains; superior X-ray technology; and even more powerful nuclear fusion reactors... Article @EverythingScience

Scientists Have Discovered an Enzyme That Converts Air Into Electricity Australian researchers have uncovered an enzyme capable of transforming air into energy. The study, which was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature, shows that the enzyme utilizes small amounts of hydrogen in the air to generate an electrical current. This breakthrough paves the way for the development of devices that can literally generate energy from thin air. While this research is at an early stage, the discovery of Huc has considerable potential to develop small air-powered devices, for example as an alternative to solar-powered devices. The bacteria that produce the required enzyme are common and can be grown in large quantities, meaning we have access to a sustainable source of the enzyme. Dr. Grinter says that a key objective for future work is to scale up production. “Once we produce Huc in sufficient quantities, the sky is quite literally the limit for using it to produce clean energy.” Article @EverythingScience

New sound navigation technology enables the blind to navigate Article @EverythingScience

Evolution Could Predate Life Itself, Protein Discovery Suggests Article @EverythingScience

The First Disease Caused by Ingested Plastic Was Just Described by Scientists Article @EverythingScience

New results from NASA's DART planetary defense mission confirm we could deflect deadly asteroids Article @EverythingScience

Latest Change to The Doomsday Clock Brings Us Closer to Midnight Than Ever Article @EverythingScience

Scientists Create Shapeshifting Humanoid Robot That Can Liquefy And Reform Article @EverythingScience

Scientists Reveal The Most Distant Galaxy We've Ever Found Article @EverythingScience

UK scientists discover method to reduce steelmaking’s CO2 emissions by 90% Article @EverythingScience

Once in 50,000-year comet may be visible to the naked eye Article @EverythingScience

99% Efficiency: Princeton Engineers Have Developed a New Way To Remove Microplastics From Water Article @EverythingScience

Cave markings show that Ice Age hunter-gatherers were the first to use a lunar calendar Article @EverythingScience

The brain's ability to perceive space expands like the universe Young children sometimes believe that the moon is following them, or that they can reach out and touch it. It appears to be much closer than is proportional to its true distance. As we move about our daily lives, we tend to think that we navigate space in a linear way. But Salk scientists have discovered that time spent exploring an environment causes neural representations to grow in surprising ways... Article @EverythingScience

Betelgeuse Visualisation Astronomers Pierre Kervella and Dr. Bernd Freytag used data gathered over 7 years to create this animation of what Betelgeuse might look like, due to the very low density of red super giants, fluctuations inside cause material to be flung out millions of miles before eventually falling back. "If it were at the center of our Solar System, its surface would lie beyond the asteroid belt and it would engulf the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars" Video @EverythingScience

Scientists develop a cool new method of refrigeration Adding salt to a road before a winter storm changes when ice will form. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have applied this basic concept to develop a new method of heating and cooling. The technique, which they have named "ionocaloric cooling," is described in a paper published Dec. 23 in the journal Science. Article @EverythingScience

Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham Dies at 90 Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew into space on Apollo 7, the first flight with crew in NASA’s Apollo Program, died early Tuesday morning in Houston. He was 90 years old. “Walt Cunningham was a fighter pilot, physicist, and an entrepreneur – but, above all, he was an explorer. On Apollo 7, the first launch of a crewed Apollo mission, Walt and his crewmates made history, paving the way for the Artemis Generation we see today,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “NASA will always remember his contributions to our nation’s space program and sends our condolences to the Cunningham family.” Article @EverythingScience

Study Shows How The Universe Would Look if You Broke The Speed of Light, And It's Weird Researchers from the University of Warsaw in Poland and the National University of Singapore have now pushed the limits of relativity to come up with a system that doesn't run afoul of existing physics, and might even point the way to new theories. What they've come up with is an "extension of special relativity" that combines three time dimensions with a single space dimension ("1+3 space-time"), as opposed to the three spatial dimensions and one time dimension that we're all used to. Article @EverythingScience