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General Physics Apr 24, 2024

Scientists at the MAJORANA Collaboration look for rule-violating electrons

In a new study published inNature Physics, scientists at the MAJORANA Collaboration have tested the stringency of charge conservation and Pauli's exclusion principles using underground detectors. Alessio Porcelli has published ...

Astronomy 21 hours ago

International team detects eruption of mega-magnetic star in nearby galaxy

While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays—high-energy photons—coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray space telescope searched for ...

Astronomy 15 hours ago

NASA's Chandra releases timelapse movies of Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A

New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky—the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A—are being released from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Each includes X-ray data collected by Chandra over about two decades. ...

Analytical Chemistry 21 hours ago

Scientists develop novel liquid metal alloy system to synthesize diamond under moderate conditions

Did you know that 99% of synthetic diamonds are currently produced using high-pressure and high-temperature (HPHT) methods? A prevailing paradigm is that diamonds can only be grown using liquid metal catalysts in the "gigapascal ...