Scopus 8 April
- Ground assessments in Eastern Samar and Leyte showed the mangroves to be recovering from minimal to partial damage in the wake of supertyphoon Yolanda. See the Tacloban Declaration.
- Rinorea niccolifera Fernando, a nickel hyperaccumulator, an important new discovery by scientists from UP Los Baños…
- Sablay superhero
- National Artist Francisco Feliciano, 73, passed away during typhoon Mario
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- On the left, an optical image from the Digitized Sky Survey shows Cygnus X-1, outlined in a red box. Cygnus X-1 is located near large active regions of star formation in the Milky Way, as seen in this image that spans some 700 light years across. An artist’s illustration on the right depicts what astronomers think is happening within the Cygnus X-1 system. Cygnus X-1 is a so-called stellar-mass black hole, a class of black holes that comes from the collapse of a massive star. New studies with data from Chandra and several other telescopes have determined the black hole’s spin, mass, and distance with unprecedented accuracy.
