July 24, 2022

The orbits of the main bodies in the solar system. Courtesy of CALTECH

A new solution to an old mystery: Why isn't the interior of our solar system spinning faster?

The key to solving a long-standing mystery about thin disks of gas orbiting young stars: the movement of a small number of charged particles. This is claimed in a new Caltech study
In the illustration by Prof. Luca Jovine from the Karolinska Institute, the structure of Fsx1 (right) deciphered by the researchers appears. The structure belongs to an archaeon that originated in a water environment with high salinity (represented by salt on the left)

Hypothesis: The mechanism that enables sexual reproduction was created about a billion years before its actual appearance

The Technion researchers and their colleagues abroad: It is possible that the cellular mechanisms that enable the fusion of the sperm and the egg were created as early as 3 billion years ago in single-celled organisms of the archaea type
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The connection between paper folding and physics

The researchers who cracked the fascinating physics of crumpled sheets of paper