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Research shows tillage and vegetation can help alleviate compaction

Channels: Agriculture, All Journal News, Environmental Science, Pollution, Scientific Meetings,

Keywords: soil, Construction, Environment, Runoff, Water, Remediation, Pollution, Research, Science, Soil Science, Environmental Science, Urban, Infrastructure

Soils releasing carbon as gas lead to challenges on valuable farmland

Channels: Agriculture, Climate Science, Environmental Science, Nature, Plants, Scientific Meetings,

Keywords: soil, Florida, Agriculture, Farming, Science, Research, Conservation, Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability, Everglades, Carbon

Using Hubble and a new observing technique, astronomers have uncovered the smallest clumps of dark matter ever detected. Dark matter is an invisible substance that makes up most of the universe's mass and forms the scaffolding upon which galaxies are built.

Channels: Scientific Meetings, Particle Physics, Physics, Space and Astronomy, Space Channel Featured Story TOP, Staff Picks,

Keywords: NASA, Hubble Space Telescope, Wide Field Camera 3, Dark Matter, Gravitational Lensing, Quasars, American Astronomical Meeting, Active Galactic Nuclei

Astronomers using Hubble have made the most precise measurement yet of the universe’s expansion rate using the gravitational lensing method, which is independent from the usual cosmic distance ladder.

Channels: Scientific Meetings, Particle Physics, Physics, Space and Astronomy,

Keywords: NASA, Hubble Space Telescope, Wide Field Camera 3, Advanced Camera For Surveys, H0LiCOW, Hubble Constant, Gravitational Lensing, Quasars, American Astronomical Society

Hubble observations suggest that orange stars, slightly cooler than our Sun, are better hangouts for life. There are more of them in our galaxy, they live much longer than our Sun, and unleash less deadly radiation than red dwarf stars.

Channels: Scientific Meetings, Particle Physics, Physics, Space and Astronomy,

Keywords: NASA, Hubble Space Telescope, Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, Stars, habitable zone, Goldilocks stars, K stars, orange dwarf stars, American Astronomical Society

Unmanned aerial vehicles provide reliable, accurate data to growers.

Channels: Agriculture, Environmental Science, Technology, Food Science, Scientific Meetings,

Keywords: Agriculture, Technology, Drones, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Fruit, Food Production, Food Security, Innovation, Crop Science, Agronomy, Remote Sensing, Sustainability

From the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2020

Channels: Energy, Engineering, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Technology, DOE Science News, All Journal News, Scientific Meetings,

Keywords: Energy efficiency , smart homes, Microgrid, Geothermal energy, heat pump, Cost Savings Matrix, Nuclear Reactors, Scale up reactors, Modeling And Simulation, Smart Neighborhood

Hubble has photographed a majestic spiral galaxy, UGC 2885, located 232 million light-years away. The galaxy is 2.5 times wider than our Milky Way and contains 10 times as many stars. Astronomers want to know how it got so big.

Channels: Scientific Meetings, Space and Astronomy, Space Channel Featured Story TOP,

Keywords: NASA, Hubble Space Telescope, Wide Field Camera 3, American Astronomical Society Meeting, spiral galaxy UGC 2885, Stars, globular star clusters

An international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to create the most detailed image yet of the gas surrounding two supermassive black holes in a merging galaxy.

Channels: All Journal News, Particle Physics, Physics, Space and Astronomy, Scientific Meetings,

Keywords: Astronomy, Black Hole, astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy, Galaxy Mergers

Astronomers and visualization specialists have combined the visible, infrared and X-ray vision of NASA's Great Observatories to create a 3D representation of the dynamic Crab Nebula—the tattered remains of an exploded star.

Channels: Scientific Meetings, Space and Astronomy,

Keywords: NASA, Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, American Astronomical Society, Crab Nebula, science visualization, Multiwavelength, supernova remnant, Movie, Nebula, Pulsar