Understanding fast radio bursts
Astronomers are detecting a mysterious, powerful form of radiation blipping across space, and nobody's quite sure why.
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Brightest fast radio burst yet recorded at Parkes in Australia
A team of researchers at the Parkes Observatory in NSW Australia has reported recording the brightest fast radio burst (FRB) yet on March 9 of this year. They describe it as having a high signal-to-noise ratio with an "orientation ...
Fast radio bursts 'twists and shouts' help scientists determine source of cosmic blasts
An international group of astronomers has found that the Cornell University-discovered fast radio burst FRB 121102 - a brief, gigantic pulse of radio waves from 3 billion light years away - passes through a veil of magnetized ...
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2018
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Mysterious cosmic radio bursts found to repeat
Astronomers for the first time have detected repeating short bursts of radio waves from an enigmatic source that is likely located well beyond the edge of our Milky Way galaxy. The findings indicate that these "fast radio ...
Astronomy
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Lab confirms new commercial method for producing medical isotope
The effort to secure a stable, domestic source of a critical medical isotope reached an important milestone this month as the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory demonstrated the production, separation ...
General Physics
Jun 15, 2015
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Recycling nuclear waste via advanced reactor design
An advanced nuclear reactor under development by Hitachi could help solve the nuclear waste problem, and University of Michigan researchers were involved in verifying its safe performance through computer simulations.
Energy & Green Tech
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