Rare, powerful jet strips star-forming gas from its host, offering new insight into how galaxies evolve
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended…
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How John Clarke’s Nobel Prize-Winning Research Paved the Way for Quantum Computing – Berkeley Lab News Center
Key Takeaways
- John Clarke, a former scientist at Berkeley Lab, shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering quantum tunneling in an electric chip.
- This research, conducted at Berkeley Lab in the 1980s by Clarke and co-laureates…
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NASA Starts Up Gateway’s Power System for First Time
Development continues on NASA’s Power and Propulsion Element, a solar electric propulsion spacecraft designed to provide power for Gateway in lunar orbit.
Able to generate 60 kilowatts of power, the element was successfully powered on earlier…
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A cereal-box-sized space telescope heads for the stars
A small space telescope roughly the size of a family cereal box — having cleared its pre-shipment review by NASA last spring — is now at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, where it will be readied for launch on a SpaceX…
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Oldest known poison weapons found in South Africa: study-Xinhua
CAPE TOWN, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — Some 60,000-year-old poison arrows have been discovered inside a rock shelter in South Africa, identified as the world’s oldest known poison weapons.
The study, conducted by researchers from South Africa and…
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Northern lights may be visible in 12 states Jan. 8-9
The northern lights could illuminate skies across the northern U.S. tonight (Jan. 8-9) according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC).
An incoming stream of fast solar wind from…
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Milner Library enters new open access agreement with Elsevier – News
Milner Library is pleased to announce a new agreement with Elsevier that expands open access publishing support for Illinois State University authors. This is the 13th open access agreement Milner Library has entered…
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Private group unveils plans for large space telescope
PHOENIX — A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble that its backers say can be built at a fraction of the cost and on a…
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Astronomers Find one of the Oldest Barred-Spiral Galaxies in the Universe – UMass Amherst
- Astronomers Find one of the Oldest Barred-Spiral Galaxies in the Universe UMass Amherst
- Pitt student finds familiar structure just 2 billion years after the Big Bang EurekAlert!
- Scientists May Have Just Identified One of the Earliest Known Barred…
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American Astronomical Society honors four UC Santa Cruz affiliates
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) honored four scientists affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz, for outstanding contributions to the field. At the 247th AAS meeting, the society named Science Division Dean Bryan…
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