* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    George Lopez is coming to Spokane – KXLY.com

    George Lopez is coming to Spokane – KXLY.com

    Netflix unveils Dallas immersive venue for fans of hit shows like ‘Squid Game,’ ‘Stranger Things’ – Houston Chronicle

    Step Inside Netflix’s New Dallas Immersive Experience Featuring Hits Like ‘Squid Game’ and ‘Stranger Things

    ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz’: Civic Players bring ‘Young Frankenstein’ to life – Yahoo

    Civic Players Deliver a Hilarious and Unforgettable Performance of ‘Young Frankenstein

    ‘Wheel of Fortune’: Amputee Wins $60,000 After Breaking Incredible ‘Curse’ – Hastings Tribune

    Wheel of Fortune’ Amputee Breaks Incredible ‘Curse’ to Win $60,000!

    North Star Sports & Entertainment Network: Coming soon – KTTC News

    North Star Sports & Entertainment Network: Coming soon – KTTC News

    Safety concerns in Deep Ellum create apprehension as the entertainment district gains visitors – CBS News

    Safety Concerns Surge Amid Deep Ellum’s Booming Popularity and Growing Crowds

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Frontdoor Announces Tech Expert Dr. Bala Ganesh as Chief Technology Officer – Business Wire

    Frontdoor Appoints Tech Visionary Dr. Bala Ganesh as New Chief Technology Officer

    Defense technology giant Northrop Grumman to host interviews in Iuka to fill technician roles – supertalk.fm

    Defense technology giant Northrop Grumman to host interviews in Iuka to fill technician roles – supertalk.fm

    China’s Military Introduces Mosquito-Sized Drones: A Game-Changing Surveillance Technology – Indian Defence Review

    China Unveils Mosquito-Sized Drones: Revolutionizing Surveillance Technology

    Marvell Technology Stock Rallies After AI Event Sparks Investor Optimism – Yahoo Finance

    Marvell Technology Stock Rallies After AI Event Sparks Investor Optimism – Yahoo Finance

    Promising Technology Stocks To Follow Today – June 22nd – MarketBeat

    Top Technology Stocks to Watch Today – June 22nd

    Technology Convergence Report 2025 – The World Economic Forum

    Technology Convergence Report 2025 – The World Economic Forum

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    George Lopez is coming to Spokane – KXLY.com

    George Lopez is coming to Spokane – KXLY.com

    Netflix unveils Dallas immersive venue for fans of hit shows like ‘Squid Game,’ ‘Stranger Things’ – Houston Chronicle

    Step Inside Netflix’s New Dallas Immersive Experience Featuring Hits Like ‘Squid Game’ and ‘Stranger Things

    ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz’: Civic Players bring ‘Young Frankenstein’ to life – Yahoo

    Civic Players Deliver a Hilarious and Unforgettable Performance of ‘Young Frankenstein

    ‘Wheel of Fortune’: Amputee Wins $60,000 After Breaking Incredible ‘Curse’ – Hastings Tribune

    Wheel of Fortune’ Amputee Breaks Incredible ‘Curse’ to Win $60,000!

    North Star Sports & Entertainment Network: Coming soon – KTTC News

    North Star Sports & Entertainment Network: Coming soon – KTTC News

    Safety concerns in Deep Ellum create apprehension as the entertainment district gains visitors – CBS News

    Safety Concerns Surge Amid Deep Ellum’s Booming Popularity and Growing Crowds

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Frontdoor Announces Tech Expert Dr. Bala Ganesh as Chief Technology Officer – Business Wire

    Frontdoor Appoints Tech Visionary Dr. Bala Ganesh as New Chief Technology Officer

    Defense technology giant Northrop Grumman to host interviews in Iuka to fill technician roles – supertalk.fm

    Defense technology giant Northrop Grumman to host interviews in Iuka to fill technician roles – supertalk.fm

    China’s Military Introduces Mosquito-Sized Drones: A Game-Changing Surveillance Technology – Indian Defence Review

    China Unveils Mosquito-Sized Drones: Revolutionizing Surveillance Technology

    Marvell Technology Stock Rallies After AI Event Sparks Investor Optimism – Yahoo Finance

    Marvell Technology Stock Rallies After AI Event Sparks Investor Optimism – Yahoo Finance

    Promising Technology Stocks To Follow Today – June 22nd – MarketBeat

    Top Technology Stocks to Watch Today – June 22nd

    Technology Convergence Report 2025 – The World Economic Forum

    Technology Convergence Report 2025 – The World Economic Forum

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home Science

Saturday Citations: Mars limnology, phage immunology, quantum technology. Plus: The mushrooms are coming

October 28, 2023
in Science
Saturday Citations: Mars limnology, phage immunology, quantum technology. Plus: The mushrooms are coming
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Saturday Citations: Mars limnology, phage immunology, quantum technology. Plus: The mushrooms are coming

Atomic structural model of bacteriophage T4 in UCSF Chimera software using pdbs of the individual proteins. Credit: Dr. Victor Padilla-Sanchez, PhD, CC BY-SA 4.0

This week, we reported on LIGO upgrades, parasitic fungi and a new analysis of Curiosity rover data. Also, did you know that viruses also attack bacteria? But at that scale, it’s a lot less like catching a cold and a lot more like Harry Dean Stanton encountering the xenomorph in “Alien.”

Quanta squeezed

The quantum limit is not so limiting for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory anymore, as physicists are now exploiting a quantum effect called “squeezing” that allows them to measure gravitational space-time waves across the entire range of gravitational frequencies the observatory detects. As a result, they expect to observe 60% more space-time-undulating mergers of black holes and neutron stars.

So: Squeezing. This refers to the fact that light can be squeezed to be more precise in one trait, such as its frequency, and simultaneously less precise in another trait, such as power. This is another expression of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which states that you cannot know two traits simultaneously. The upgraded LIGO technology has been in operation since May 2023, when the observatory resumed observations.

Mushrooms preparing

“The Last of Us,” a venerable old PlayStation action game and now a pretty great HBO series, posits the collapse of society caused by a parasitic fungus that turns living organisms into mushroom zombies and is now also the cultural touchpoint referenced in every article about fungi, which I’m doing right now. My question is this: Why aren’t the writers trying to wring a little more tension out of the fear of airborne fungal spores?

Because that would clearly be an enormous threat, especially inside the cavernous ruins of warehouses and malls where the walls are absolutely wainscoted with masses of fungal matter. Consider this: Mycologists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that bonnet mushrooms have evolved the ability to invade the roots of living plants.

However, they also provide evidence that these Mycena fungi may be in the process of developing into mutualists, symbiotic organisms that provide a beneficial advantage to the trees they invade.

Rivers diminished

Today, Mars is a terrible place completely inhospitable and openly antagonistic to life. The atmospheric pressure is close to a vacuum. The temperatures are frigid. There’s no magnetic field, which means zero shielding against solar and cosmic radiation. I give Elon Musk four weeks on the planet before he rockets back toward Earth, leaving behind all of the volunteers and SpaceX employees who came with him. He’ll post a cry-laugh emoji and something like “they knew what they were getting into.”

But Mars might once have been homier. New analysis of data from the Curiosity rover reveals that Mars was likely a planet of rivers. Using numerical models, researchers simulated erosion on Mars over thousands of years and determined that common geological formations are most likely the remnants of riverbeds. Follow me, here: Everyone knows where rivers meet oceans, you have riparian zones.

Where there are riparian zones, you have bears catching fish. Could bears have existed on Mars? We’re not weighing in one way or the other, but Benjamin Cardenas, assistant professor of geosciences at Penn State, says, “Our research indicates that Mars could have had far more rivers than previously believed, which certainly paints a more optimistic view of ancient life on Mars.”

Phages friendly

Bacteriophages are viruses that attack and kill bacteria. A research collaborative led by Monash University’s Jeremy J. Barr recently explored the impact of bacteriophages on mammalian cell immune responses, applying bacteriophage T4 to mammalian cells in vitro.

The relatively large T4 looks like a hybrid of a lunar lander and a syringe, using its long tail fibers to land on E. coli cells and puncturing the bacteria’s outer membrane with its tail tube. Once the membrane is degraded, T4 injects the genetic cargo from its own head into the bacteria, which multiplies nearly instantly, while Elton John belts out “It’s the circle of liiiiiii-iiiiiiife!”

The researchers found that when exposed to T4, mammalian cells do not activate DNA-mediated inflammatory pathways, but instead trigger signaling pathway events that promote cellular growth and survival. They say that this insight into the potentially beneficial interactions between phages and mammalian cells could contribute to the use of phage therapy for antibiotic-resistant infections.

© 2023 Science X Network

Citation:
Saturday Citations: Mars limnology, phage immunology, quantum technology. Plus: The mushrooms are coming (2023, October 28)
retrieved 28 October 2023
from https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-mars-limnology-phage.html

This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no
part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only.

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : Phys.org – https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-mars-limnology-phage.html

Tags: CitationsSaturdayscience
Previous Post

How to Watch Five Nights at Freddy’s

Next Post

1.6 million acres of Great Plains grasslands were destroyed in 2021 alone, World Wildlife Fund says

Vanderburgh County Health Department Takes Bold Action Against Vaccine Hesitancy

June 26, 2025
Why Trump needs the world to believe Iran’s nuclear program is ‘obliterated’ – CNN

Why Trump Wants the World to Believe Iran’s Nuclear Program Is Completely Destroyed

June 26, 2025
House panel wrangles on rail safety technology – FreightWaves

House Panel Sparks Debate Over the Future of Rail Safety Technology

June 26, 2025
The Desert Sun unveils its Top Spring Athletes: History-makers and record-breakers – The Desert Sun

Meet This Spring’s Top Athletes: History-Makers and Record-Breakers Revealed!

June 26, 2025
HUD to move into the National Science Foundation headquarters, no current plan on where to relocate NSF employees – Government Executive

HUD to move into the National Science Foundation headquarters, no current plan on where to relocate NSF employees – Government Executive

June 25, 2025

Protecting the Boundless Future of U.S. Science: Tackling Tomorrow’s Challenges Today

June 25, 2025
LVMH’s Paris Olympics partnership wins Luxury and Lifestyle Grand Prix – Ad Age

LVMH Shines Bright with Luxury and Lifestyle Victory at Paris Olympics Partnership

June 25, 2025
Why the Strait of Hormuz, A Vital Oil Route, Is Vulnerable to Israel-Iran Conflict – The New York Times

Why the Strait of Hormuz, A Vital Oil Route, Is Vulnerable to Israel-Iran Conflict – The New York Times

June 25, 2025
Dying honey bees are threatening California’s economy. Can Central Valley lawmakers save them? – CalMatters

Dying honey bees are threatening California’s economy. Can Central Valley lawmakers save them? – CalMatters

June 25, 2025
Butler launches sports, entertainment institute focused on local events – Inside INdiana Business

Butler Launches Exciting New Sports and Entertainment Institute Spotlighting Local Events

June 25, 2025

Categories

Archives

June 2025
MTWTFSS
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30 
« May    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (698)
  • Economy (717)
  • Entertainment (21,612)
  • General (15,568)
  • Health (9,757)
  • Lifestyle (722)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (719)
  • Politics (725)
  • Science (15,935)
  • Sports (21,214)
  • Technology (15,702)
  • World (697)

Recent News

Vanderburgh County Health Department Takes Bold Action Against Vaccine Hesitancy

June 26, 2025
Why Trump needs the world to believe Iran’s nuclear program is ‘obliterated’ – CNN

Why Trump Wants the World to Believe Iran’s Nuclear Program Is Completely Destroyed

June 26, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version