EP-WXT Pathfinder, the experimental version of a module that will eventually be part of the wide-field X-ray telescope (WXT) aboard the astronomical satellite Einstein Probe (EP), released its first results Aug. 27 from an ...
Astronomy
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Ultrafast science has made great advances in recent years. Attosecond pulses with photon energies lying in the soft X-ray range corresponding to the fundamental absorption edges of matter permit the study of electron dynamics ...
Optics & Photonics
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Imaging techniques provide essential information in astronomical and space physics studies. The soft X-ray imager (SXI) will obtain images of the Earth's magnetosphere from solar wind charge exchange emission in a global ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 30, 2022
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When you think of proteins—the enzymes, signaling molecules, and structural components in every living thing—you might think of single strands of amino acids, organized like beads on a string. But nearly all proteins ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 26, 2022
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At 6:28 a.m. EDT on Aug. 21, 1972, NASA's Copernicus satellite, the heaviest and most complex space telescope of its time, lit up the sky as it ascended into orbit from Launch Complex 36B at what is now Cape Canaveral Space ...
Space Exploration
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A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will observe the remnants of an exploded star, uncovering new details about the eruption event while testing X-ray detector technologies for future missions. The High-Resolution Microcalorimeter ...
Astronomy
Aug 19, 2022
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Using the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an international team of astronomers have detected a new accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar. The newfound pulsar, designated MAXI J1816–195, has a spin period ...
Black hole X-ray binaries (BHXB) comprise a stellar-mass black hole accreting gas from a companion star and emitting transient X-ray emission and compact radio jets.
Astronomy
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An international team of researchers have discovered that a mysterious microscopic creature from which humans were thought to descend is part of a different family tree.
Evolution
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Scientists studying a COVID-19 coronavirus enzyme at temperatures ranging from frosty to human-body warm discovered subtle structural shifts that offer clues about how the enzyme works. The findings, published in IUCrJ, the ...
Cell & Microbiology
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