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Astronomy Jul 13, 2023

Astronomers identify the coldest star yet that emits radio waves

Astronomers at the University of Sydney have shown that a small, faint star is the coldest on record to produce emission at radio wavelength.

Astronomy Jul 13, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope finds possible evidence of dark stars

A trio of astrophysicists, two from Colgate University and the third from the University of Texas, has found evidence of dark stars courtesy of data from the James Webb Space Telescope. In their study, reported in Proceedings ...

Analytical Chemistry Jul 13, 2023

A scalable, safer, and potentially cheaper way to isolate valuable isotopes

New research published in Science Advances, led by Yuan Yang, associate professor of materials science at Columbia Engineering, and collaborators at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, demonstrates a novel technique for isolating ...

Plants & Animals Jul 10, 2023

Researchers explain how mushrooms can live for hundreds of years without getting cancer

The risk of cancer increases with every cell division. As such, you would expect long-lived species like elephants to get cancer more often than short-lived species like mice. In 1975, however, Richard Peto discovered that ...

Astronomy Jul 7, 2023

Light supergiant reveals a missing evolutionary stage

Dr. Varsha Ramachandran from the Center for Astronomy of Heidelberg University (ZAH) and her colleagues uncovered the first "stripped" star of intermediate-mass. This discovery marks a missing link in our picture of stellar ...

Plasma Physics Jun 27, 2023

Team improves spectral analysis and measurement of X-ray crystal spectroscopy for future fusion reactors

A research team led by Prof. Lyu Bo from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has improved the diagnostic accuracy of X-ray Crystal Spectroscopy (XCS) and investigated a series of fusion ...

Astronomy Jun 26, 2023

Nancy Grace Roman space telescope could detect supermassive dark stars

The first stars of the universe were very different than the stars we see today. They were made purely of hydrogen and helium, without heavier elements to help them generate energy in their core. As a result, they were likely ...

Astronomy Jun 12, 2023

Has JWST finally found the first stars in the universe?

In astronomy, elements other than hydrogen and helium are called metals. While that might make your high-school chemistry teacher cringe, it makes sense for astronomers. The two lightest elements were the first to appear ...

Astronomy Jun 9, 2023

Recording the entire process of a tera-electron volt gamma-ray burst during the death of a massive star

New research findings on the gamma-ray burst (GRB) named GRB 221009A from the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) were published online by the journal Science on June 8, 2023. The study, titled "A tera-electron ...

General Physics Jun 2, 2023

Predicting the composition of a steel alloy

Producing energy on Earth through nuclear fusion, the type of reaction that powers the sun, has proven to be a major challenge. The extreme conditions needed for such a reaction require the walls of a nuclear fusion device ...

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