Researchers from the University of Turku have determined the geometrical parameters of a neutron star floating in the galaxy 21,000 light years away. The finding confirms old ideas that this star precesses like a whirligig.
Astronomy
Oct 26, 2022
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Information on complex magnetic structures is crucial to understand and develop spintronic materials. Now, a new instrument named ALICE II is available at BESSY II. It allows magnetic X-ray scattering in reciprocal space ...
General Physics
Oct 25, 2022
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NASA scientist have released images combining the early data from the James Webb Space Telescope with X-ray data taken with the Chandra Observatory. Besides their beauty, the images offer insights into the inner workings ...
Astronomy
Oct 24, 2022
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Discovery of intriguing material behavior at small scales could reduce energy demands for computing.
Nanophysics
Oct 19, 2022
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Indian astronomers have employed NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft to inspect an X-ray pulsar known as 1E 1145.1-6141. Results of the observations deliver important insights into the properties and nature of this pulsar. The study ...
An analysis of obsidian artifacts excavated during the 1960s at two prominent archaeological sites in southwestern Iran suggests that the networks Neolithic people formed in the region as they developed agriculture are larger ...
Archaeology
Oct 17, 2022
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Syngas conversion, as the core technology for efficient and clean utilization of carbon resources such as coal, natural gas, CO2 and biomass, has received extensive attention from both academia and industry. An increasing ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 17, 2022
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By simulating the feedback of the white dwarf (WD) to the periodic mass transfer driven by the X-ray irradiation on its companion, researchers led by Ph.D. candidate Zhao Weitao and Prof. Meng Xiangcun from the Yunnan Observatories ...
Astronomy
Oct 14, 2022
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Silicon, an element abundant in Earth's crust, is currently the most widely used semiconductor material and is important in fields like engineering, geophysics and plasma physics. But despite decades of studies, how the material ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 14, 2022
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In October 2018, a small star was ripped to shreds when it wandered too close to a black hole in a galaxy located 665 million light years away from Earth. Though it may sound thrilling, the event did not come as a surprise ...
Astronomy
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