A small asteroid hit Earth's atmosphere over the Norwegian Sea before disintegrating on March 11, 2022. But this event wasn't a complete surprise: Astronomers knew it was on a collision course, predicting exactly where and ...
Space Exploration
Mar 15, 2022
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Does being sentenced to juvenile detention or community service truly serve as a means to rehabilitation?
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2022
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University of Surrey researchers have developed a single-step procedure to put single-crystal silicon under more strain than has been achieved before. The discovery, which has a patent pending, could be crucial to the future ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 18, 2022
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The Earth—with its myriad interactions of atmosphere, oceans, land and ice components—presents an extraordinarily complex system for investigation. For researchers, simulating the dynamics of these systems has presented ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 7, 2022
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After the "first quantum revolution"—the development of devices such as lasers and the atomic clock—the "second quantum revolution" is currently in full swing. Experts from all over the world are developing fundamentally ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 21, 2021
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Open the weather app on your phone or glance at the news and you can quickly find a detailed forecast for the weather in your location. The report is likely to affect your behavior for the day: if you put on sandals or snow ...
Planetary Sciences
Dec 13, 2021
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It's been 70 years since physicist Enrico Fermi asked his famous question: "Where is everybody?" And yet, the tyranny of the Fermi Paradox is still with us and will continue to be until definitive evidence of extraterrestrial ...
Astronomy
Nov 23, 2021
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Engineers have successfully transferred digitally encoded information wirelessly using nuclear radiation instead of conventional technology.
General Physics
Nov 10, 2021
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Scientists have carefully studied the intricacies of how individual organisms live and act together in groups known as biological collectives. In "superorganisms" such as bee colonies, the interactions of the individual members ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 10, 2021
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A team of experts including researchers from the World Bank Group and University of Birmingham has developed a roadmap to drive the cooling innovations that could help to avoid climate catastrophe, as increasing heat threatens ...
Environment
Nov 5, 2021
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