Tiny crystals, known as quantum dots, have enabled an international team to achieve a quantum efficiency exceeding 100 …
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SpaceFeatured
Wide View of Early Universe Hints at Galaxy Among the Earliest Ever Detected
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesTwo new images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope show what may be the earliest galaxy ever observed. …
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Physicists Make Major Gains in Room-Temperature Superconductivity
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesLess than two years after shocking the science world with the discovery of a material capable of room-temperature …
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According to the Standard Model of cosmology, the vast majority of galaxies are surrounded by a dark matter …
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Ultrafast pulses from X-ray lasers reveal how atoms move at timescales of a femtosecond. That’s a quadrillionth of …
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NASA’s EMIT Mineral Dust Detector Starts Gathering Data
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesAfter being installed on the exterior of the International Space Station, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) …
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An archaeological study has determined that cowrie-shell artifacts found throughout the Mariana Islands were octopus lures and that …
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It’s been nearly a century since astronomer Fritz Zwicky first calculated the mass of the Coma Cluster, a …
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An animated dive into the dusty Milky Way reveals the outlines of our galaxy taking shape as we …
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Space
International Team of Astronomers Discovers Two Rare Binary Star Systems
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesAn international team of astronomers has identified only the second and third examples of a rare type of …