Neutron stars have the strongest magnetic fields in the universe, and the only way to measure their surface magnetic field directly is to observe the cyclotron absorption lines in their X-ray energy spectra. The Insight-HXMT ...
Astronomy
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Researchers at the Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen have recently moved a big step closer to understanding chemical processes. Their world record comes from tracking the biggest contraction in an inorganic ...
Nanophysics
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A research team led by Tohoku University in Japan has developed new materials for supercapacitors with higher voltage and better stability than other materials. Their research was recently published in the journal Energy ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 7, 2019
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European scientists have achieved a major success on the road to energy production through fusion plasmas: They produced stable plasmas with 59 megajoules of energy output at the world's largest fusion facility, JET, in Culham ...
Plasma Physics
Feb 9, 2022
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The title character in a 90-second film called "Dot" has broken the Guinness World Record for being the smallest stop-motion animation character in a film. The 9-mm-tall Dot (whose head is about the size ...
Few true mysteries remain, but Pi is one of them.
Mathematics
Mar 11, 2016
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Aerogels are extraordinary materials that have set Guinness World Records more than a dozen times, including as the world's lightest solids.
Nanophysics
Dec 2, 2021
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The natural furnace of California's Death Valley was on full broil in July, tentatively setting a world record for hottest month ever.
Environment
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Terahertz radiation has many applications—but high intensity terahertz radiation sources are hard to build. A team of researchers at TU Vienna has now managed to create a new kind of quantum cascade laser with an output ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 30, 2013
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A fisherman on the Lake of the Ozarks brought ashore a world-record paddlefish Sunday that weighed more than 164 pounds—the biggest paddlefish ever caught and the largest fish of any kind in Missouri's record books.
Plants & Animals
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