The response of compact objects to gravitational tides offers a powerful way to test the nature of gravity and the existence of exotic objects beyond classical black holes. Rui Wang, Qi-Long Shi, and Wei Xiong, from South China University of…
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The JWST Just Identified A Supernova From Only 730 Million Years After The Big Bang
Supernovae aren’t one of the JWST’s main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it pinpointed a single star in a galaxy when the Universe was only about 730 million years old. It wasn’t just any…
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Meet Damhán Alla—the newly christened, spider-like feature on Jupiter's moon Europa – Phys.org
- Meet Damhán Alla—the newly christened, spider-like feature on Jupiter’s moon Europa Phys.org
- UCF Study Explores Formation of Spider-Like Features on Jupiter’s Moon Europa and Potential for Life University of Central Florida
- Europa’s…
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Quantifying grain boundary deformation mechanisms in small-grained metals
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The deep ocean is fixing carbon in ways no one expected
In an effort to better understand how the ocean stores carbon, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and their collaborators have uncovered results that challenge long-held ideas about how carbon dioxide is “fixed” in the dark, deep sea. Led by UCSB…
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The deep ocean is fixing carbon in ways no one expected
In an effort to better understand how the ocean stores carbon, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and their collaborators have uncovered results that challenge long-held ideas about how carbon dioxide is “fixed” in the dark, deep sea. Led by UCSB…
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Quantum Breakthrough Enhances Security, Speed in Tech
Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, consolidate their longstanding collaboration by presenting in Nature Photonics a comprehensive collection of the latest…
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Optics & Photonics News – Advanced X-ray Imaging Cuts Radiation Doses
Mini Das (left) and Jingcheng Yuan at the University of Houston have shown how to combine X-ray attenuation, differential phase-contrast and dark field imaging in a single shot by appropriately positioning a mask (in front of a sample)…
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SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from California on 160th Falcon 9 flight of the year
The launch of a new batch of SpaceX Starlink satellites lit up the predawn sky in southern California today (Dec. 10) as the company marked its 160th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket this year.
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ALICE solves mystery of light-nuclei survival
Observations of the formation of light-nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter
Particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can reach temperatures over one hundred thousand…
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