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Helium is a gas vital for MRI scanners and high-tech industry—which is suffering from severe supply issues. Now research has identified a new concept in helium gas field formation that will help secure this rare gas for society. Here a tube of helium is seen glowing in the presence of a plasma ball. Credit: Oliver Warr, University of Ottawa; AEL AMS Laboratory. Research led by the University of Oxford could address the current…

While crop plants do sequester some atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) via photosynthesis, they could always use a bit of help. California-based startup Andes is aiming to provide that help, by putting carbon-capturing microbes in the soil of farmers' fields.Here's the basic idea behind how the Andes system is claimed to work …At the start of each growing season, the farmer adds both the regular crop seeds and the special microbes to the soil. "The microorganisms we are using are proprietary, but we can share they are…

Image via Sony Whilst accepting this year’s life achievement award at the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Sally Field was accompanied by her Amazing Spider-Man co-star Andrew Garfield, and fans have been absolutely gushing over the wholesome moment online. The award recognized Field’s almost 60 years of acting in television and movies. Field was escorted to the stage by Austin Butler before being presented the award by Garfield, who took the time to pay tribute to Field as well as talk about his own personal…

The Universe is filled with magnetic fields. Although the Universe is electrically neutral, atoms can be ionized into positively charged nuclei and negatively charged electrons.When those charges are accelerated, they create magnetic fields. One of the most common sources of magnetic fields on large scales comes from the collisions between and within interstellar plasma. This is one of the major sources of magnetic fields for galactic-scale magnetic fields.But magnetic fields should also exist on even larger scales. At…

ChatGPT creator OpenAI says is freshly released tool for detecting when artificial intelligence authored text rather than a human remains a work in progress and should not be completely relied upon to make the call. Creators of a ChatGPT bot causing a stir for its ability to mimic human writing on Tuesday released a tool designed to detect when written works are authored by artificial intelligence.…

The first thing we'll do is add a date field. Let's say you're creating a document template you'll use over and over. At the top of that template, you have:To: From:Re:Date: Instead of always typing the date, you can add a field. To do that, click the space directly to the right of Date: and then click Insert > Field > Date. The field will be populated by the current date. Also: What's new in LibreOffice and how do you install it on MacOS?If you were to open that same file tomorrow, the date would change to…

The China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) is upping the ante on offshore wind, announcing it's building the largest and most powerful wind turbine ever, making a peak 18 megawatts with an enormous 260-meter (853-ft) diameter on its three-bladed rotor.It makes sense for a shipbuilding enterprise to get involved with this project; the blades of much smaller turbines are already a huge pain to transport, so building them right next to a dock in a facility designed for making, handling and launching enormous structures…

Standardized regression weights plotted in the proposed conceptual model. Credit: Teaching and Teacher Education (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2022.103942 There is a shortage of teachers not only in Germany, but in many countries around the world. For this reason, people without formal teaching degrees are often brought in from other fields to teach in schools. Yet according to a new study, they are often less satisfied in their…

Drugmaker Horizon Therapeutics PLC said it is fielding takeover interest, as large pharmaceutical companies compete for fast-growing medicines to fuel sales.Horizon, which develops medicines for rare and immune diseases, said it is “engaged in highly preliminary discussions with Amgen Inc., AMGN -0.22% Janssen Global Services, LLC and Sanofi” SA, confirming an earlier Wall Street Journal report on takeover interest. A deal for Horizon…

Right now in the most important societies in the world of Economics, female academics have a greater chance of being recognized compared with men. Credit: UPV/EHU Using the Econometric Society and other international societies as the basis for their research, the group of researchers comprising Nagore Iriberri, David Card, Stefano DellaVigna and Patricia Funk explored the gender impact when recognizing excellence in…