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December 24, 2024
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Dec. 20, 2024 — Quantum teleportation could provide near-instant communication over long distances. But, inside Internet cables, photons needed for teleportation are lost within the millions of light particles required for classical communications. A new study ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — Researchers have found evidence of magnetic fields associated with a disc of gas and dust a few hundred light-years across deep inside a system of two merging galaxies known as Arp220. They say these regions could be the key to making the centres of ...
Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the past 100 years, physicists have generally assumed that the cosmos is ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — A brotherly research duo has discovered that when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produces top quarks -- the heaviest known fundamental particles -- it regularly creates a property known as ...
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Dec. 16, 2024 — A research team has developed a highly efficient wearable energy harvester that can power electronic devices using only body ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Physicists have created a new and long-lasting magnetic state in a material, using only light. The results provide a new way to control and switch antiferromagnetic materials, which are of interest ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first time, that Chiron has surface chemistry unlike other centaurs. Its surface it has both ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — A new study explores how variations in Mars' crustal thickness during its ancient history may have influenced the planet's magmatic evolution and ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Conventional wisdom assumes the ratio of gases in a planet's atmosphere should match the ratio of gases in the natal disk that birthed it. For the first time, researchers compared gases in a ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — A fragment of 'lost' music found in the pages of Scotland's first full-length printed book is providing clues to what music sounded like five centuries ago. Scholars have been investigating the ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — A study of more than 26,000 white dwarf stars has confirmed a long-predicted but elusive effect in these ultra-dense, dying stars: Hotter white ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging ...
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Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have developed swarms of tiny magnetic robots that work together like ants to achieve Herculean feats, including traversing and picking up objects many times their size. The findings ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists propose a 'remelting' of the Moon's surface 4.35 billion years ago due to the tidal pull of Earth causing widespread geological upheaval and intense ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — A future where lightweight car parts can be made with a 3D printer is here, thanks to multi-material additive manufacturing ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — Microgravity is known to alter the muscles, bones, the immune system and cogni tion, but little is known about its specific impact on the brain. To discover how brain cells respond to microgravity, ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — String theory remains elusive as a 'provable' phenomenon. But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating string theory by using an innovative mathematical ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — The holidays are in full swing and people are shopping, wrapping and packing to visit loved ones. Along with the extra fees for checked baggage and seat upgrades, some airlines are also considering ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — Infertility affects an estimated 186 million people worldwide, with fallopian tube obstruction contributing to 11%-67% of female infertility cases. Researchers have developed an innovative solution ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — If the experience of watching a FIFA World Cup soccer final is intense, spare a thought for the players, who are competing at an ever increasing intensity, according to a new ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — The combination of low temperature, atmospheric pressure and water vapor pressure on Mars means any liquid water found there would likely freeze, boil or evaporate immediately, making its presence ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — When analyzing artworks, understanding the visual clarity of compositions is crucial. Inspired by digital artists, researchers have created a metric to quantify clarity in digital images. As a ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — Recent measurements with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cast doubt on the current understanding of the exoplanet Trappist-1 b's nature. Until now, it was assumed to be a dark rocky planet ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — Anthropologists argue physical artifacts of human exploration on Mars deserve cataloging, preservation and care in order to chronicle humanity's first attempts at interplanetary ...
Dec. 13, 2024 — The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the ...
Dec. 13, 2024 — A new study points to why, and how, Io became the most volcanic body in the solar ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — A research team has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using body heat, eliminating the need for ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years per star. Such superflares release more energy than a trillion hydrogen bombs and make all ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — Theoretical physicists along with an experimental team have found evidence of a quantum spin liquid in a material known as pyrochlore cerium stannate. They achieved this by combining state-of-the-art ...
Dec. 11, 2024 — Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an unprecedented picture of ...
Dec. 11, 2024 — A new study highlights a hidden challenge of using AI in medical imaging research -- the phenomenon of highly accurate yet potentially misleading results known as 'shortcut learning.' The ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
- Swarms of 'ant-Like' Robots Lift Heavy Objects and Hurl Themselves Over Obstacles
- A 'remelting' Of Lunar Surface Adds a Wrinkle to Mystery of Moon's True Age
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
- How to Print a Car: High-Performance Multi-Material 3D Printing Techniques
- Brain Cells Remain Healthy After a Month on the International Space Station, but Mature Faster Than Brain Cells on Earth
- Physicists 'bootstrap' Validity of String Theory
- Travelers Weigh in on Weight-Based Airfares for Eco-Friendly Skies
- Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole
- Tiny Robots, Big Impact: Revolutionizing Infertility Treatment With Magnetic Microrobots
- World Cup Soccer Is Getting Faster for Men and Women Alike
Monday, December 16, 2024
- New Paper Examines the Elusive Nature of Liquid Brines on Mars
- Physics and Emote Design: Quantifying Clarity in Digital Images
- Does the Exoplanet Trappist-1 B Have an Atmosphere After All?
- Anthropologists Call for Tracking and Preservation of Human Artifacts on Mars
Friday, December 13, 2024
- Astrophysicists Capture Astonishing Images of Gamma-Ray Flare from Supermassive Black Hole M87
- Heart of Jovian Moon's Volcanic Rage
Thursday, December 12, 2024
- Breakthrough Brings Body-Heat Powered Wearable Devices Closer to Reality
- Superflares Once Per Century
- Researchers Uncover Strong Light-Matter Interactions in Quantum Spin Liquids
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
- A New Galaxy, Much Like Our Own
- AI Thought Knee X-Rays Show If You Drink Beer -- They Don't
- Minuscule Robots for Targeted Drug Delivery
- Fast, Rewritable Computing With DNA Origami Registers
- Uncovering the Pigments and Techniques Used to Paint the Berlin Wall
- Researchers Discover New Third Class of Magnetism That Could Transform Digital Devices
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
- Particle That Only Has Mass When Moving in One Direction Observed for First Time
- A New Discovery About the Source of the Vast Energy in Cosmic Rays
- Delivering Medicines With Microscopic 'flowers'
Monday, December 9, 2024
- Researchers 'see' Vulnerability to Gaming Addiction in the Adolescent Brain
- Scientists Create AI That 'watches' Videos by Mimicking the Brain
- Mars' Infamous Dust Storms Can Engulf the Entire Planet: A New Study Examines How
- Not So Simple Machines: Cracking the Code for Materials That Can Learn
- Black Hole Debate Settled? Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star Cluster
- Space-Time Crystals, an Important Step Toward New Optical Materials
- Judging Knots Throws People for a Loop
- Universe Expansion Study Confirms Challenge to Cosmic Theory
- Battery-Like Computer Memory Keeps Working Above 1000°F
- Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt
Friday, December 6, 2024
- Magnetically Controlled Kirigami Surfaces Move Objects: No Grasping Needed
- Bird-Inspired Drone Can Jump for Take-Off
- Researchers Innovate Scalable Robotic Fibers With Light-Emitting, Self-Healing and Magnetic Properties
Thursday, December 5, 2024
- Particle Research Gets Closer to Answering Why We're Here
- Iberian Neolithic Societies Had a Deep Knowledge of Archery Techniques and Materials
- Researchers Use Data from Citizen Scientists to Uncover the Mysteries of a Blue Low-Latitude Aurora
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
- A New Way to Create Realistic 3D Shapes Using Generative AI
- Manta Rays Inspire Fast Swimming Soft Robot Yet
- Astronomers Close to Solving Mystery of How Universe's Giant Galaxies Formed
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
- Uncovered a Mystery of 'electron Carrier' Existing in All Living Organisms: Discovery of a 'nano-Switch Mechanism' Controlled by a Single Hydrogen Atom
- Training AI Through Human Interactions Instead of Datasets
- Controlling Matter at the Atomic Level
- New Planet in Kepler-51 System Discovered Using James Webb Space Telescope
Monday, December 2, 2024
- Researchers Demonstrate Self-Assembling Electronics
- Evidence of Primordial Black Holes May Be Hiding in Planets, or Even Everyday Objects Here on Earth
- 'Spooky Action' At a Very Short Distance: Scientists Map out Quantum Entanglement in Protons
- Temporary Tattoo Printed Directly on the Scalp Offers Easy, Hair-Friendly Solution for Measuring Brainwaves
- Physics Experiment Proves Patterns in Chaos in Peculiar Quantum Realm
- Smallest Walking Robot Makes Microscale Measurements
- Innovative Robot Navigation Inspired by Brain Function Boosts Efficiency and Accuracy
Friday, November 29, 2024
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
- Astronomers May Have Discovered the Answer to a Mysterious Stellar Event
- Magnetic Tornado Is Stirring Up the Haze at Jupiter's Poles
Monday, November 25, 2024
- Uranus's Swaying Moons Will Help Spacecraft Seek out Hidden Oceans
- A Clue to What Lies Beneath the Bland Surfaces of Uranus and Neptune
- To Design Better Water Filters, Engineers Look to Manta Rays
- The Next Evolution of AI Begins With Ours
- Novel Supernova Observations Grant Astronomers a Peek Into the Cosmic Past
- Most Energetic Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons Ever Observed
Saturday, November 23, 2024
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Thursday, November 21, 2024
- The Parasaurolophus' Pipes: Modeling the Dinosaur's Crest to Study Its Sound
- Chemists Create World's Thinnest 'spaghetti'
- Astronomers Take the First Close-Up Picture of a Star Outside Our Galaxy
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
- Do Pipe Organs Create an Auto-Tune Effect?
- Researchers Develop Clinically Validated, Wearable Ultrasound Patch for Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Synchronized Movement Between Robots and Humans Builds Trust, Study Finds
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
- Astronomers Discover First Pairs of White Dwarf and Main Sequence Stars in Clusters, Shining New Light on Stellar Evolution
- New Theory Reveals the Shape of a Single Photon
- Sliding Seeds Can Provide Insight Into Devastating Landslides and Rock Avalanches
Monday, November 18, 2024
- Effortless Robot Movements
- New Research Explores Volcanic Caves, Advancing the Search for Life on Mars
- New Idea May Crack Enigma of the Crab Nebula's 'zebra' Pattern
- Gaming for the Good!
Saturday, November 16, 2024
- Invisible Touch: AI Can Feel and Measure Surfaces
- 'Walk This Way': How Ants Create Trails to Multiple Food Sources
Thursday, November 14, 2024
- AI Headphones Create a 'sound Bubble,' Quieting All Sounds More Than a Few Feet Away
- Scientists Discover Laser Light Can Cast a Shadow
- Robotic Shorts Support People When Walking
- 'Cool' White Car Headlights More Likely to Dazzle Moths
- When Is a Hole Not a Hole? Researchers Investigate the Mystery of 'latent Pores'
- Sensitive Ceramics for Soft Robotics
- NeuroMechFly V2: Simulating How Fruit Flies See, Smell, and Navigate
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
- Meteorite Contains Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars 742 Million Years Ago
- Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes
- On the Origin of Life: How the First Cell Membranes Came to Exist
- Anti-Fatberg Invention Could Help Unclog City Sewers
- Robot Identifies Plants by 'touching' Their Leaves
- Three Galactic 'red Monsters' In the Early Universe