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First interstellar comet may be the most pristine ever found
New observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) indicate that the rogue comet 2I/Borisov, which is only the second and...
Theoretical physicists predict quantum interactions within 3D molecules
Within the realm of quantum mechanics, the generation of quantum entanglement remains one of the most challenging goals. Entanglement, simply put, is when the...
A new spin on energy-efficient electronics
The promising field of spintronics seeks to manipulate electron spin to make a new breed of small and low-power electronic devices. A recent study...
Physicists flip particle accelerator setup to gain a clearer view of...
Physicists at MIT and elsewhere are blasting beams of ions at clouds of protons —like throwing nuclear darts at the speed of light—to map...
Two strange planets: Neptune and Uranus remain mysterious after new findings
Uranus and Neptune both have a completely skewed magnetic field, perhaps due to the planets' special inner structures. But new experiments by ETH Zurich...
Extra 100 million years before Earth saw permanent oxygen rise
The permanent rise of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere, which fundamentally changed the subsequent nature of Earth's habitability, occurred much later than thought, according...
Black hole seeds key to galaxies behemoths
A new black hole breaks the record—not for being the smallest or the biggest—but for being right in the middle.
The recently discovered 'Goldilocks' black...
String theory solves mystery about how particles behave outside a black...
A paper by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) Director Ooguri Hirosi and Project Researcher Matthew Dodelson...
Method offers inexpensive imaging at the scale of virus particles
Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers have devised a technique for imaging biological samples with accuracy at the scale of 10 nanometers—which should...
Dark matter is the most likely source of excess of gamma...
In the recent past, space missions dedicated to the study of astrophysical signals in the high-energy spectrum revealed a series of enigmatic excesses not...
Scientists zero in on the role of volcanoes in the demise...
Earth has experienced five major mass extinction events over the past 500 million years. Massive volcanic eruptions have been identified as the major driver...
