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  • A Planet Made of Lava and Steam? Webb Finds a Rocky World That Breaks the Rules

    A Planet Made of Lava and Steam? Webb Finds a Rocky World That Breaks the Rules

    Astronomers studying an ultra-hot planet beyond our solar system have found something they did not expect: a thick atmosphere clinging to a world that should have lost it long ago.

    Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers observed

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  • The Doomsday Glacier Flunks 2025 Checkup

    The Doomsday Glacier Flunks 2025 Checkup

    Thwaites, the most studied glacier in the world, commands attention because it is not only the widest in the world at 80 miles but also the shakiest. And its nickname “The Doomsday Glacier” certainly sets it apart from the 500 other…

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  • Hybrid micromagnetic and atomistic modeling of magnetization dynamics induced by engineered defects

  • Žutić, I., Fabian, J. & Sarma, S. D. Spintronics: Fundamentals and applications. Rev. Mod. Phys. 76, 323. https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.76.323 (2004).

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  • Power outage in Boulder area affects atomic clock, “Time is not broken” NIST says

    Power outage in Boulder area affects atomic clock, “Time is not broken” NIST says

    In advance of hurricane force winds moving into Colorado earlier this week, Xcel Energy preemptively shut off power to protect areas of the state from extreme fire danger. But due to the outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST…

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  • US firm delivers three 12-kilowatt thrusters for NASA’s lunar gateway

    US firm delivers three 12-kilowatt thrusters for NASA’s lunar gateway

    A Melbourne-based company has completed testing and delivery of three 12-kilowatt Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) thrusters. These thrusters, developed by L3Harris Technologies, will be used for NASA’s lunar-orbiting Gateway station…

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  • New independent measurements of universe expansion rate deepen cosmic mystery : Kauai Now

    New independent measurements of universe expansion rate deepen cosmic mystery : Kauai Now

    A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes — including W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island — made one of the most precise independent measurements yet of how fast the universe is…

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