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Earth Sciences Aug 13, 2023

Atlantic collapse: Q&A with scientists behind controversial study predicting a colder Europe

In late July, a study published in Nature Communications warned that a critical ocean system that brings warm water up the North Atlantic, also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), was at risk ...

Earth Sciences Aug 8, 2023

Significant shifts in inorganic carbon and ecosystem state in a temperate estuary

In the 1980s, the Elbe estuary had largely lost its function as an estuarine filter due to heavy metal pollution. After decades, the estuary was able to recover from this, as a team led by doctoral student Louise Rewrie from ...

Planetary Sciences Jul 31, 2023

The PLATO mission could be the most successful planet hunter ever, scientists believe

In 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch its next-generation exoplanet-hunting mission, the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO).

Optics & Photonics Jul 24, 2023

Phase-tailored assembly and encoding of dissipative soliton molecules

Streams of ultrashort light pulses delivered from mode-locked laser resonators stimulate potential applications in ultrafast science and information technology. Here the elementary pulse entity, termed dissipative solitons ...

General Physics Jul 14, 2023

Investigating the use of noise to solve inverse physical problems

The early success of physics comes mainly from solving direct or forward problems in which the physical state of a system can be described from a well-defined physical model and from governing equations. Yet, there exists ...

Optics & Photonics Jul 10, 2023

Researchers discover photonic snake states, a new instrument for unveiling the secrets of light

Light, with its countless colors, is one of the wonders of nature. To truly understand what we see, it is essential to know the precise colors of the light with which we perceive our world. We achieve this by means of optical ...

Astronomy Jul 6, 2023

Researchers use supercomputer to investigate dark matter

A research team from the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's Summit supercomputer to run one of the most complete cosmological models yet to probe the properties of ...

Earth Sciences Jul 3, 2023

Assessment of the impact of halogens on the atmosphere suggests they should be included in climate models

An international team of chemists and climate scientists, has conducted an assessment of the impact of short-lived halogens (SLHs) on Earth's atmosphere and are suggesting that their findings indicate that such gases should ...

Optics & Photonics Jun 28, 2023

Neural wavefront shaping camera overcomes light scattering problem in optical imaging

Engineers from Rice University and the University of Maryland have created full-motion video technology that could potentially be used to make cameras that peer through fog, smoke, driving rain, murky water, skin, bone and ...

Astronomy Jun 27, 2023

Watching the watchers with Nancy Grace Roman

Astronomers are getting better at gathering data about exoplanets. We have discovered thousands of them, measuring their mass, size, and orbital parameters, and we are starting to measure other aspects such as their temperature ...

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