Quantum physics sets the laws that dominate the universe at a small scale. The ability to harness quantum phenomena could lead to machines like quantum computers, which are predicted to perform certain calculations much faster ...
Superconductivity
Feb 8, 2019
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Using the power and synergy of two space telescopes, astronomers have made the most precise measurement to date of the universe's expansion rate.
Astronomy
Jul 12, 2018
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Astronomers from the University of Cambridge have developed a new, highly accurate method of measuring the distances between stars, which could be used to measure the size of the galaxy, enabling greater understanding of ...
Astronomy
Sep 4, 2015
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The universe is expanding but astrophysicists aren't sure exactly how fast that expansion is happening—not because there aren't answers, but rather because the answers they could give don't agree.
Astronomy
Nov 17, 2020
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have turned up the first direct proof that "standard candles" used to illuminate the size of the universe, termed Cepheids, shrink in mass, making them not quite as standard as once thought. The ...
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2011
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In the past two decades, NASA spacecraft have identified potentially habitable environments throughout the solar system and beyond. Spacecraft on Mars have found evidence that lakes and streams once covered the planet, protected ...
Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2018
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An international team of researchers has announced the completion of the outermost shell of the Silicon Vertex Detector (SVD) on May 24 after six years of work. The completed SVD will be placed inside one of Japan's biggest ...
General Physics
May 30, 2018
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When fabricated in one or two dimensions, systems of particles whose quantum spins interact with each other can display some unique quantum properties. Through new research published in The European Physical Journal B, Asif ...
Superconductivity
Jul 14, 2023
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Polymer chemists at A*STAR have synthesized materials with intrinsic, microscale porosity that are well suited for reusable gas and liquid separations because of their robust, ladder-like frameworks.
Polymers
Feb 24, 2016
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Why does a 55-year-old worker earn on average around 40 percent more than a 25-year-old? Is there a link between average wage growth and rising wage inequality? Many answers to these fundamental questions have so far remained ...
Economics & Business
Jul 11, 2019
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