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Planetary Sciences Jun 12, 2023

Study explores magnetosheath jets on Mars

Magnetosheath jets on Earth are plasma entities that have a higher dynamic pressure surrounding the plasma and can cause waves that transfer energy within such environments. Such jets also exist beyond Earth in the magnetosheath ...

Quantum Physics Jun 9, 2023

Research takes first steps towards realizing mechanical qubits

Quantum information (QI) processing may be the next game changer in the evolution of technology, by providing unprecedented computational capabilities, security and detection sensitivities. Qubits, the basic hardware element ...

Astronomy Jun 8, 2023

Researchers detect elusive planets with CHEOPS

With the help of the CHEOPS space telescope an international team of European astronomers managed to clearly identify the existence of four new exoplanets. The four mini-Neptunes are smaller and cooler, and more difficult ...

Astronomy Jun 6, 2023

Astronomers discover a new 'warm Jupiter' on an eccentric and misaligned orbit

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new "warm Jupiter" exoplanet. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-1859 b, orbits its parent star on an eccentric and misaligned ...

Environment May 26, 2023

Philosophers agree with economists on climate action, but stress ethical considerations

A new study shows that philosophers with expertise on social discounting and intergenerational distribution want to put more emphasis on the conditions of future generations in climate economic calculations. But they fundamentally ...

Social Sciences May 22, 2023

Where have all the Luddites gone? Exploring what makes us human—and whether modern technology threatens to destroy it

The great—if sometimes overlooked—20th-century philosopher and cultural critic Günther Anders once proposed that our modern age is characterized by a dangerous and pervasive "Apocalypse-Blindheit": a blindness to the ...

Optics & Photonics May 11, 2023

Speckle structured illumination endoscopy with enhanced resolution at wide field of view and depth of field

Super resolution imaging has been a hot topic for over the last few decades in the imaging community, particularly, in the field of microscopy. Although several interesting feats have been achieved in the microscopic imaging ...

Astronomy May 10, 2023

Stephen Hawking and I created his final theory of the cosmos—here's what it reveals about the origins of time and life

The late physicist Stephen Hawking first asked me to work with him to develop "a new quantum theory of the Big Bang" in 1998. What started out as a doctoral project evolved over some 20 years into an intense collaboration ...

Astronomy Apr 18, 2023

Looking for potential radio technosignatures from extragalactic sources

It has been more than sixty years since Dr. Frank Drake (father of the Drake Equation) and his colleagues mounted the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) survey. This was known as Project Ozma, which relied ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 13, 2023

Laser light hybrids control giant currents at ultrafast times

The flow of matter, from macroscopic water currents to the microscopic flow of electric charge, underpins much of the infrastructure of modern times. In the search for breakthroughs in energy efficiency, data storage capacity, ...

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