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Nov 6, 2024 | 
sciencenews.org | Javier Barbuzano
Potatoes are the third-most consumed food worldwide and a delicious snack. But modern farm potatoes require large amounts of nitrogen in the form of nitrate fertilizers, which are costly and can be environmentally harmful. A group of researchers has found that the same genetic mechanism that tells potatoes when to grow flowers and tubers (the edible part) is also a key player in the plant’s nitrogen management.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
sciencenews.org | Nikk Ogasa |Javier Barbuzano |McKenzie Prillaman
Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet's changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? Much of the world’s gold is mined from networks of branching mineral layers — or veins — made mostly of quartz, called orogenic gold deposits. These deposits are constructed piecemeal by earthquakes, usually around six to 12 kilometers underground.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
skyandtelescope.org | Javier Barbuzano
Astronomers are building an array of intriguing telescopes that will enable them to detect the highest-energy gamma rays — from the ground. “Tourists!” Paolo Calisse complains as he maneuvers past a rental car that has stopped in the middle of the road. The astronomical observatory at the Roque de los Muchachos, on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma, is busy with cars and visitors wandering in small groups.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
sciencenews.org | Amanda Heidt |Javier Barbuzano |Nikk Ogasa
Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet's changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? In some ways, Bonany says, the Tutti is already outdated.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
eos.org | Javier Barbuzano
For nearly 28 hours, starting on Christmas night of 2022, a rare type of aurora illuminated the Arctic. A faint, greenish glow known as a polar rain aurora covered thousands of kilometers across the skies. For the first time, this intriguing light show was captured on camera by a group of scientists who had been waiting for more than a decade for the opportunity.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
eos.org | Javier Barbuzano
This is an authorized translation of an Eos article. Esta es una traducción al español autorizada de un artículo de Eos. Debido a que la Tierra está cambiando constantemente por la tectónica de placas, la mayoría de las rocas en la superficie son geológicamente jóvenes. Sin embargo, en los núcleos de los continentes yacen bloques de la corteza gruesos y extremadamente resistentes, llamados cratones, que han persistido durante miles de millones de años.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Javier Barbuzano
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
sciencenews.org | Javier Barbuzano
A sequence of letters belonging to an ancient alphabet has been discovered in a most unusual way — by someone scrolling through social media. The inscription, on a slate slab unearthed in Spain, is closely linked to the Phoenician alphabet, which was hugely influential on later writing systems including Latin, Spanish and English. Researchers hope that the finding will expand their understanding of a prosperous pre-Roman civilization’s writing system.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
eos.org | Javier Barbuzano
Because Earth is constantly churned by plate tectonics, most rocks on the surface are geologically young. At the cores of continents, however, lie thick and extremely resistant blocks of crust called cratons, which have persisted over billions of years. How these cratons formed is a long-standing mystery. The prevailing theory links craton formation to a change in plate tectonics: At some point, the planet transitioned from having a single plate to multiple colliding ones.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
skyandtelescope.org | Javier Barbuzano
Despite a mission glitch, NASA’s lunar radio experiment ROLSES (carried to the Moon on the Odyssesus lander in February) obtained a unique “view” of Earth. After a half-century hiatus, in February NASA finally returned to the lunar surface with a scientific payload. It did so by piggybacking on the Odysseus lander, the first of the NASA-sponsored privately operated missions.
