In the eye of a stellar cyclone: Bizarre secrets of a ticking time-bomb star
While on COVID lockdown, a University of Sydney honours student has written a research paper on a star system dubbed one of the "exotic...
Generating photons for communication in a quantum computing system
MIT researchers using superconducting quantum bits connected to a microwave transmission line have shown how the qubits can generate on demand the photons, or...
New species of aquatic mice discovered, cousins of one of the world’s rarest mammals
Ninety-three years ago, a scientist trapped a mouse in a stream in Ethiopia. Of all the mice, rats, and gerbils in Africa, it stood...
High-speed photos shine a light on how metals fail
How things deform and break is important for engineers, as it helps them choose and design what materials they're going to use for building...
Carbon creation finding set to rock astrophysics
A new measurement of how quickly stars create carbon may trigger a major shift in our understanding of how stars evolve and die, how...
The black hole always chirps twice: Scientists find clues to decipher the shape of...
A team of gravitational wave researchers led by the ARC Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) report that when two black holes...
When human and machine agree about iridium oxide
A human research team and a machine learning algorithm have found that we need to rethink much of what we know about iridium oxide.
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The Marangoni Effect can be used to obtain freshwater from the sea
A study conducted at the Politecnico di Torino, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and published in the journal Energy and Environmental...
Stacking and twisting graphene unlocks a rare form of magnetism
Since the discovery of graphene more than 15 years ago, researchers have been in a global race to unlock its unique properties. Not only...
Scientists engineer bacteria-killing molecules from wasp venom
A team led by scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has engineered powerful new antimicrobial molecules from toxic...
Tetrahedra may explain water’s uniqueness
Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo sifted through experimental data to probe the possibility that supercooled water has...
