Western Australia astronomers have discovered a radio galaxy near Earth by accident. The previously unknown radio galaxy is considered quite close to Earth, and was discovered late last year.
Astronomy
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Thanks to simulation and control technology from Siemens, astronomers will be able to gaze even further into space in the future. According to the current issue of the Siemens research magazine Pictures of the Future, the ...
Space Exploration
May 23, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a previously unknown phase in a class of superconductors called iron arsenides. This sheds light on a debate over the ...
Superconductivity
May 23, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Researchers have been taking tips from nature to build the next generation of flying robots.
Robotics
May 23, 2014
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Wind energy is one of the most promising renewable energy resources in the world today. Dr. Hui Hu and his group at Iowa State University studied the effects of the relative rotation directions of two tandem wind turbines ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 23, 2014
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(Phys.org) —The Fukushima reactor disaster has been the most recent incident to introduce the public to the concept of "cesium 137". In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Korean researchers have now introduced a new vanadosilicate ...
Materials Science
May 23, 2014
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Desmond Moser never gives up. Twenty years ago, the now Western Earth Sciences professor first visited the heart of South Africa's Vredefort impact crater, locating what he believed to be some of the only remains of a magma ...
Earth Sciences
May 23, 2014
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A new window on the world of atoms will make future vehicles safer in collisions.
Engineering
May 23, 2014
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More than 25 years ago, an abandoned NASA spacecraft fulfilled its mission, fell silent and has since been hurtling around the sun, somewhere between the orbits of Earth and Mars. Now, a University of Arizona engineering ...
Space Exploration
May 23, 2014
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In all organisms, reduction-oxidation—or "redox"—regulation is essential for many biological processes, including metabolism, gene expression, and environmental and stress responses. Key to understanding these processes ...
Biochemistry
May 23, 2014
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