When NASA's 990-pound Dragonfly rotorcraft reaches the Selk crater region—the mission's target touchdown spot—on Saturn's moon Titan in 2034, Cornell's Léa Bonnefoy will have helped to make it a smooth landing.
Space Exploration
Sep 28, 2022
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Within the cabinets and drawers of the world's herbaria are nearly 400 million dried plant specimens. These collections have long served as a vital record of what plant species exist on Earth and where they grow. But hidden ...
Evolution
Sep 28, 2022
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After NASA deliberately smashes a car-sized spacecraft into an asteroid next week, it will be up to the European Space Agency's Hera mission to investigate the "crime scene" and uncover the secrets of these potentially devastating ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 23, 2022
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Computers that can make use of the "spooky" properties of quantum mechanics to solve problems faster than current technology may sound alluring, but first they must overcome a massive disadvantage. Scientists from Japan may ...
Superconductivity
Sep 22, 2022
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is revealing the universe with spectacular, unprecedented clarity. The observatory's ultrasharp infrared vision has cut through the cosmic dust to illuminate some of the earliest structures ...
Astronomy
Sep 15, 2022
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The U.S. National Science Foundation's NOIRLab-operated Gemini South Telescope used its latest upgrade— GHOST, the Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph—to capture observations of HD 222925, a star more than 1,400 ...
Astronomy
Aug 25, 2022
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A research team led by Prof. Jiang Ling and Zhang Zhaojun from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) identified the infrared signature of stepwise hydration motifs of sulfur ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 25, 2022
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Stunning new images created by Keele researchers highlight the turbulent flow of energy inside distant stars.
Astronomy
Aug 16, 2022
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Scientists from The University of Manchester have developed a novel yet simple method for producing vertical stacks of alternating superconductor and insulator layers of tantalum disulphide (TaS2). The findings, from a team ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 3, 2022
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In the 1860s, the chemists, Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Mendeleev, independently presented the first periodic system. Since then, the well-known tabular arrangement of the elements has been the guiding principle of chemistry. ...
Materials Science
Aug 1, 2022
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