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Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux
Black holes are at the center of almost all galaxies that have been studied so far. They have an unimaginably large mass and therefore...
A 70 degree shift on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa was the last event to...
Europa's outer icy shell has completely reoriented itself in one of the last geologic events recorded on its young surface. Europa's poles are not...
The age of the Earth’s inner core revised
By creating conditions akin to the center of the Earth inside a laboratory chamber, researchers have improved the estimate of the age of our...
Rogue planets could outnumber the stars
An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets—planets that float in space without orbiting a sun—than there are stars in...
Researchers discover first ‘open-charm’ tetraquark
The LHCb experiment at CERN has developed a penchant for finding exotic combinations of quarks, the elementary particles that come together to give us...
Electron movements in liquid measured in super-slow motion
Electrons are able to move within molecules when they are excited from outside or in the course of a chemical reaction. For the first...
Researchers discover superconductor with unexpected lattice configuration
An international team has discovered that compressing monocrystalline (TaSe4)2I can create a system where the constituent TaSe4Q1-D atomic chains are in amorphous state without...
Novel hormone discovery provides new insight into the evolution of plant structur
An international study co-led by the Monash University School of Biological Sciences has discovered a stem-cell promoting hormone in the liverwort Marchantia polymopha.
The discovery,...
A new lens on the world: Improving the metalens with liquid crystal
For more than 500 years, humans have mastered the art of refracting light by shaping glass into lenses, then bending or combining those lenses...
Fossil leaves show high atmospheric carbon spurred ancient ‘global greening’
Scientists studying leaves from a 23-million-year-old forest have for the first time linked high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide with increased plant growth, and...
Record melt: Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in 2019
Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four...
