An object hidden below ground has been located using quantum technology—a long-awaited milestone with profound implications for industry, human knowledge and national security.
General Physics
Feb 23, 2022
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An international team of astronomers led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered an unusual massive cluster of young galaxies forming in the early universe. The newly discovered growing galactic ...
Astronomy
Feb 9, 2022
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Scientists at The University of Manchester and The University of Glasgow have today provided more insight into the possibility of establishing a pathway to generate oxygen for humans to potentially call the moon or Mars 'home' ...
Materials Science
Feb 8, 2022
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Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see motion are often vastly greater than human lifetimes. In a major new study, a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy ...
Astronomy
Feb 3, 2022
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A team led by the University of Bern was able to prove that the glaciers of the penultimate ice age (the "Riss' glaciation) mainly eroded the bedrock between Thun and Bern, but that during the last glaciation ( the "Würm' ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 2, 2022
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The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI) has obtained the deepest and sharpest images to date of the region around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The ...
Astronomy
Dec 14, 2021
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As humanity continues its exploration of the universe, the low-gravity environment of space presents unusual challenges for scientists and engineers.
Space Exploration
Oct 29, 2021
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While humans rely on gravity for balance and orientation, the mechanisms by which we actually sense this fundamental force are largely unknown. Odder still, the model organism C. elegans, a microscopic worm, can also sense ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2021
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Physicists at the University of Sussex have discovered that black holes exert a pressure on their environment, in a scientific first.
Astronomy
Sep 10, 2021
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With recent forays into space travel by business moguls like Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, visiting the edge of space has never been more within the grasp of commercial travel. However, at these altitudes, passengers experience ...
Space Exploration
Aug 12, 2021
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