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Astronomy Aug 17, 2022

New discovery may offer clues to 'missing' pulsars

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are evolved neutron stars with short spin periods that have gone through a long period of mass transfer in a low-mass X-ray binary phase. Globular clusters (GCs)—conglomerations of tens of thousands ...

Veterinary medicine Jun 8, 2022

Scientists use technology to look at the personalities and predictability of farmed calves

Using state of the art sensor technologies, experts at the University of Nottingham have found that calves reared on farms not only vary significantly in their movement and space patterns, but also that some calves are more ...

General Physics May 30, 2022

Chip-scale Floquet topological insulators to enhance 5G wireless communications

Floquet topological insulators are materials with topological phases that originate from tailored time-dependent perturbations of their crystal structure. These materials have been proved to feature highly unusual electron ...

Astronomy Jan 25, 2022

Unusual emission from pulsar PSR B1859+07 examined with FAST

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have investigated a peculiar emission phenomena exhibited by a pulsar known as PSR B1859+07. Results of the study, published January ...

Astronomy Oct 29, 2021

The Parkes dish is still making breakthroughs 60 years after it first gazed at the skies

The CSIRO's 64-meter Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on October 31 1961. At the time it was the most advanced radio telescope in the world, incorporating many innovative features that have since become standard in ...

Astronomy Jul 22, 2021

GLOSTAR: Tracing atomic and molecular gas in the Milky Way

By combining two of the most powerful radio telescopes on Earth, an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, created the most sensitive maps of the radio emission ...

Astronomy Jun 1, 2021

FAST is promising in interplanetary scintillation observation

The radio signal from a distant compact radio source is scattered by the density inhomogeneities of the solar wind, and consequently a random diffraction pattern is observed on the Earth.

Optics & Photonics Jun 1, 2021

Drone-mounted millimeter-wave radar sees through inner walls of chimneys

A team of researchers at Osaka University, together with Rediscovery of the wheel Inc., and JFE Shoji Electronics Corporation, has developed an ultra-wideband radar system, which can be mounted on drones. With the cooperation ...

Astronomy Dec 3, 2020

Observations unveil dynamic magnetosphere of the magnetar Swift J1818.0−1607

Using the Parkes radio telescope, astronomers have investigated a radio-loud magnetar known as Swift J1818.0−1607. Results of these observations, providing more insights into the properties of this magnetar, unveiling its ...

Astronomy Jul 7, 2020

Mysterious spinning neutron star detected in the Milky Way proves to be an extremely rare discovery

On March 12th 2020 a space telescope called Swift detected a burst of radiation from halfway across the Milky Way. Within a week, the newly discovered X-ray source, named Swift J1818.0–1607, was found to be a magnetar, ...

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