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PHOTO/IMAGE: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), OLOFSSON ET AL. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: ROBERT CUMMING

With the ALMA super telescope, astronomers have succeeded in depicting the clash between one of the smaller stars in the Milky Way and a red giant.

Super-telescope shows galactic battle smaller stars and a red giant death throes has expanded far beyond its original size. During smaller star is seen spiralling towards the core of the larger Variations on social anxiety disorder. Psychology. A study of 265 people with social anxiety disorder conducted at Uppsala University shows that sufferers have personality traits that differ markedly from other people. It was possible to distinguish three personality groups: one, with prototypical social anxiety, was both highly neurotic and introvert; a second with introvert-conscientious social anxiety, was highly introvert but less neurotic and with high conscientiousness; while a third and largest group, with instable-open social anxiety, was neurotic, emotional but with bordering on normal extroversion and considerably higher openness in comparison to normative data.

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Astronomy. A long time ago in a remote part of our galaxy, two stars met in a battle for survival. The light from this confrontation has now reached our planet, just in time for astronomers armed with new technology to document the process in images.

Using the super-telescope Atacama Large Millimeter/ submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have succeeded in capturing images of the clash between one of the Milky Way’s – a star that has exhausted its supply of hydrogen and in its the confrontation, which took place some 700 years ago, the star, causing it to shed layers of gas and exposing the core.

“We have been capturing energy signals for four decades indicating that something is going on in the area, which we estimate to be about 3,000 light years away. With the aid of new technology, we can finally document the process in images,” says Sofia Ramstedt, a researcher at the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

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Summer buzzing under threat

Biology. According to researchers from institutions including Uppsala University, previous assumptions that insects found at northern latitudes would cope well with, or even benefit from, a warmer climate are wrong. On the contrary, they are equally at risk as tropical species that already live close to their optimal and critical temperature. The same applies to our northern insects if one takes into account the average temperature during the months the insects are active, rather than the average annual temperatures on which previous models were based.