An exhausted star still has some punches to deliver. Astronomers have found that a white dwarf is pummeling a companion object—either a lightweight star or a planet—with incessant blasts of heat and radiation plus a relentless ...
Astronomy
Nov 22, 2021
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ESA's latest CubeSat—RadCube, for surveying space weather in low-Earth orbit—has completed its rigorous commissioning phase, culminating in the extension of a magnetometer boom longer than the miniature satellite itself.
Planetary Sciences
Nov 12, 2021
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The funding model for Texas K-12 education relies heavily on the state's energy sector—specifically its fossil fuel industry—potentially hurting schools amid the shift toward low-carbon and renewable energy, according ...
Economics & Business
Nov 10, 2021
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A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has applied numerical methods to capture the hallmarks of a quantum phenomenon known as the three-channel Kondo effect in an f-electron system for the first time. Professor Takashi ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 1, 2021
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Scientist use superconducting detectors (MKIDs) to capture single photons coming from exoplanets. MKIDs constantly monitor their own kinetic inductance, which changes proportionally to the energy of an incoming photon. Researchers ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 4, 2021
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University of Houston researchers are reporting a breakthrough in the field of materials science and engineering with the development of an electrochemical actuator that uses specialized organic semiconductor nanotubes (OSNTs).
Nanomaterials
Sep 3, 2021
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As you huddle inside this winter—possibly as part of a pandemic lockdown—you might be noticing the "thermal performance" of your home. In other words, does your home maintain a comfortable temperature inside, despite ...
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2021
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Scientists from the University of Aberdeen School of Biological Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have completed a 13-year long investigation into the survival strategies of an enigmatic small mammal, the plateau ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2021
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Lancaster scientists have demonstrated that other physicists' recent "discovery" of the field effect in superconductors is nothing but hot electrons after all.
Condensed Matter
May 12, 2021
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Starlink is one of the most ambitious space missions we've ever undertaken. The current plan is to put 12,000 communication satellites in low-Earth orbit, with the possibility of another 30,000 later. Just getting them into ...
Astronomy
May 10, 2021
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