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Researchers demonstrate first stable semiconductor neutron detector
Homeland Security might soon have a new tool to add to its arsenal.
Researchers at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new...
Building materials come alive with help from bacteria
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed a new approach to designing more sustainable buildings with help from some of the tiniest contractors out...
High-gravity water waves
What might look like jelly being stirred is actually water subjected to 20 times normal Earth gravity within ESA's Large Diameter Centrifuge—as part of...
Astronomers reveal interstellar thread of one of life’s building blocks
Phosphorus, present in our DNA and cell membranes, is an essential element for life as we know it. But how it arrived on the...
Researchers unlock secrets of cell division, define role for protein elevated in cancer
Researchers at Princeton University have successfully recreated a key process involved in cell division in a test tube, uncovering the vital role played by...
Final images from Cassini spacecraft
Researchers are busy analysing some of the final data sent back from the Cassini spacecraft which has been in orbit around Saturn for more...
Galactic gamma-ray sources reveal birthplaces of high-energy particles
Nine sources of extremely high-energy gamma rays comprise a new catalog compiled by researchers with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory. All produce...
‘Cold Neptune’ and two temperate super-Earths found orbiting nearby stars
A "cold Neptune" and two potentially habitable worlds are part of a cache of five newly discovered exoplanets and eight exoplanet candidates found orbiting...
X-rays and gravitational waves combine to illuminate massive black hole collision
A new study by a group of researchers at the University of Birmingham has found that collisions of supermassive black holes may be simultaneously...
How to verify that quantum chips are computing correctly
In a step toward practical quantum computing, researchers from MIT, Google, and elsewhere have designed a system that can verify when quantum chips have...
Reliable and extremely fast quantum calculations with germanium transistors
Transistors based on germanium can perform calculations for future quantum computers. This discovery by the team of Menno Veldhorst is reported in Nature.
The development of...
