Researchers at AMOLF, in collaboration with partners from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, have realized a new type of metamaterial through which sound waves flow in an unprecedented fashion. It provides a novel form of ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 27, 2024
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A new RMIT-led international collaboration published in February has uncovered, for the first time, a distinct disorder-driven bosonic superconductor-insulator transition.
Condensed Matter
Mar 3, 2023
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Researchers' recent observations of a stellar-mass black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of extremely hot matter in the region immediately surrounding the black hole.
Astronomy
Nov 3, 2022
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A Curtin-led research team has found asteroid impacts on the moon millions of years ago coincided precisely with some of the largest meteorite impacts on Earth, such as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Planetary Sciences
Sep 28, 2022
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A study presents the theory that egg-sperm fusion, a crucial feature of sexual reproduction in plants and animals, may have originated from an ancient form of genetic exchange that involved the fusion of bacteria-like microorganisms ...
Evolution
Jul 12, 2022
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Astronomy's newest mystery objects—odd radio circles, or ORCs—have been pulled into sharp focus by an international team of astronomers using the world's most capable radio telescopes.
Astronomy
Mar 21, 2022
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Astronomers are one step closer to revealing the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a new map of twelve streams of stars orbiting within our galactic halo.
Astronomy
Jan 11, 2022
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Scientists at the University of Birmingham have succeeded in creating an experimental model of an elusive kind of fundamental particle called a skyrmion in a beam of light.
General Physics
Nov 22, 2021
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A new study, published today in Nature Physics, has shown that it is possible to create tiny, self-powered swimming robots from three simple ingredients.
Soft Matter
Jul 15, 2021
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We may take it for granted that the sex of an animal is established at birth and doesn't change.
Plants & Animals
Jul 10, 2019
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