
Margherita Bassi
Daily Correspondent at Smithsonian Magazine
Journalist at Freelance
Daily correspondent for @SmithsonianMag | Corrispondente americana per @cittanuova_it | Trilingual freelance writer
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smithsonianmag.com | Margherita Bassi
Two satellites’ highly precise alignment allows scientists to study the sun’s outer atmosphere like never before One of the ways that scientists study solar wind—charged particles streaming from the sun’s surface—is by observing the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona. But because the sun is so blindingly bright, observations of this ethereal region can only be conducted with a telescope attachment called a coronograph—or during a total solar eclipse.
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technewstube.com | Margherita Bassi
Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
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gizmodo.com | Margherita Bassi
Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that often causes sudden and intense shortness of breath. The disease impacts around 339 million people worldwide, and in the U.S. nine people on average die from asthma every day. Researchers in the U.K. have found that women who work night shifts are more likely to have moderate or severe asthma than women who work during the day.
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gizmodo.com | Margherita Bassi
Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes up 5% of the universe. There was just one problem—they had no idea where most of it was. Astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have tracked down the universe’s “missing” matter.
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1 week ago |
gizmodo.com | Margherita Bassi
The saying goes that a dog is a man’s best friend, but an archaeological excavation in Norway proves that women care about their four-legged companions just as much as men do, even 1,100 years ago. Archaeologists from the Arctic University Museum of Norway have revealed a 10th-century Viking boat grave on the Norwegian island of Senja. The buried individual is likely a woman who belonged to an elite class, as Science Norway first reported.
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