16th Baku Summer Energy School kicks off

Tokyo, 19 July, /AJMEDIA/ The Institute for Development and Diplomacy (IDD) of ADA University in partnership with the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), bp Azerbaijan, Kolin, Masdar,… Read more

Do gophers farm roots? It’s not as clear as viral articles claim

Tokyo, 18 July, /AJMEDIA/ Pocket gophers certainly don’t qualify as card-carrying 4-H members, but the rodents might be farming roots in the open air of their moist, nutrient-rich tunnels. The… Read more

A fast radio burst’s rapid, steady beat offers a clue to its cosmic origin

Tokyo, 17 July, /AJMEDIA/ An unusual blast of radio waves from deep space had a sense of rhythm. Over the few seconds in December 2019 when the burst was detected,… Read more

Tardigrades could teach us how to handle the rigors of space travel

Tokyo, 14 July, /AJMEDIA/ No beast on Earth is tougher than the tiny tardigrade. It can survive being frozen at -272° Celsius, being exposed to the vacuum of outer space… Read more

Two pig hearts were successfully transplanted into brain-dead people

Tokyo, 13 July, /AJMEDIA/ Pig hearts beat for three days inside the chests of two brain-dead patients who were kept alive using ventilators. The feat helps researchers prepare for future… Read more

A supersensitive dark matter search found no signs of the substance — yet

Tokyo, 11 July, /AJMEDIA/ The next generation of dark matter detectors has arrived. A massive new effort to detect the elusive substance has reported its first results. Following a time-honored… Read more

Sand clouds are common in atmospheres of brown dwarfs

Tokyo, 10 July, /AJMEDIA/ Clouds of sand can condense, grow and disappear in some extraterrestrial atmospheres. A new look at old data shows that clouds made of hot silicate minerals… Read more

NASA reveals Webb telescope’s first cosmic targets

Tokyo, 9 July, /AJMEDIA/ NASA said Friday the first cosmic images from the James Webb Space Telescope will include unprecedented views of distant galaxies, bright nebulae, and a faraway giant… Read more

Azerbaijani FM meets with German scientist Michael Hess

Tokyo, 6 July, /AJMEDIA/ On July 7, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov received Associate Professor of Giessen University, German scientist Michael Reinhard Hess, AJMEDIA reports citing Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry. At… Read more

50 years ago, a new theory of Earth’s core began solidifying

Tokyo, 4 July, /AJMEDIA/ In the beginning, scientists believe there was an interstellar gas cloud of all the elements comprising the Earth. A billion or so years later, the Earth… Read more