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Physicists successfully carry out controlled transport of stored light
A team of physicists led by Professor Patrick Windpassinger at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has successfully transported light stored in a quantum memory...
The puzzle of the strange galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter is solved
At present, the formation of galaxies is difficult to understand without the presence of a ubiquitous, but mysterious component, termed dark matter. Astronomers have...
Simulations reveal that rocky super-Earths with thin atmospheres are often protected by a Jupiter-like...
An international group of astronomers, led by Martin Schlecker of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, has found that the arrangement of rocky, gaseous...
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...
