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Scientists Detect Signs of Water in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

November 3, 2021
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Charlottesville, VA — Water has been detected in the most massive galaxy in the early Universe, according to new observations from the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA). Scientists...

Low-Gravity Simulator Design Offers New Avenues for Space Research and Mission Training

October 29, 2021
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Tallahassee, FL — As humanity continues its exploration of the universe, the low-gravity environment of space presents unusual challenges for scientists and engineers. Researchers at the FAMU-FSU...

Research Suggests Carbon Nanotubes Could Help Electronics Withstand Outer Space’s Harsh Conditions

October 27, 2021
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Washington, DC — Space missions, such as NASA’s Orion that will take astronauts to Mars, are pushing the limits of human exploration. But during their transit, spacecrafts encounter a continuous stream...

Capturing Electrons in Space

July 23, 2021
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Innsbruck, Austria — Interstellar clouds are the birthplaces of new stars, but they also play an important role in the origins of life in the Universe through regions of dust and gas in which chemical...

Machine Learning Accelerates Cosmological Simulations

May 5, 2021
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Pittsburgh, PA — A universe evolves over billions upon billions of years, but researchers have developed a way to create a complex simulated universe in less than a day. The technique, published in...

New Microcomb could Help Discover Exoplanets and Detect Diseases

March 5, 2021
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Göteborg, Sweden — A microcomb is a photonic device capable of generating a myriad of optical frequencies – colours – on a tiny cavity known as microresonator. These colours are uniformly...

Protein Discovery could Help Enable Eco-Friendly Fungicides

March 5, 2021
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Riverside, CA — New research reveals an essential step in scientists’ quest to create targeted, more eco-friendly fungicides that protect food crops. Scientists have known for decades that...

Microbial Space Travel on a Molecular Scale

November 5, 2020
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Vienna, Austria — Since the dawn of space exploration, humankind has been fascinated by survival of terrestrial life in outer space. Outer space is a hostile environment for any form of life, but some...

Exploring the Source of Stars and Planets in Laboratory

October 27, 2020
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Princeton, NJ — A new method for verifying a widely held but unproven theoretical explanation of the formation of stars and planets has been proposed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s...

Exotic Mixtures

June 25, 2020
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Dresden, Germany — Recreating extreme conditions in the lab, like those in the interior of planets and stars, is very complex and can only be achieved for fractions of a second. An international research...

Mysteries of Uranus’ Oddities Explained by Japanese Astronomers

April 7, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — The ice giant Uranus’ unusual attributes have long puzzled scientists. All of the planets in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in the same direction and in the same plane,...

To Make Ultra-Black Materials that won’t Weigh Things Down, Consider Butterfly

March 12, 2020
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Durham, NC — Set against a piece of black construction paper, the wings of the male cattleheart butterfly look even blacker than black. “Some animals have taken black to an extreme,”...

Astronomers Use Slime Mold Model to Reveal Dark Threads of Cosmic Web

March 12, 2020
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Santa Cruz, CA — A computational approach inspired by the growth patterns of a bright yellow slime mold has enabled a team of astronomers and computer scientists at UC Santa Cruz to trace the...

What If Mysterious ‘Cotton Candy’ Planets Actually Sport Rings?

March 4, 2020
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Pasadena, CA — Some of the extremely low-density, “cotton candy like” exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have rings, according to new research published in The Astronomical Journal...

Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe

February 28, 2020
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Bentley, Western Australia — Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive black...

AI Could Deceive Us as Much as the Human Eye Does in the Search for Extraterrestrials, Says Study

January 29, 2020
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Madrid, Spain — An artificial neural network has identified a square structure within a triangular one in a crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, with several people agreeing on this perception. The result...

Shocked Meteorites Provide Clues to Earth’s Lower Mantle

January 12, 2020
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Tempe, AZ — Deep below the Earth’s surface lies a thick rocky layer called the mantle, which makes up the majority of our planet’s volume. While Earth’s mantle is too deep for humans...

At Future Mars Landing Spot, Scientists Spy Mineral That Could Preserve Signs of Past Life

November 13, 2019
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Providence, RI — Next year, NASA plans to launch a new Mars rover to search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. A new study shows that the rover’s Jezero crater landing site is home...

Quantum Paradox Experiment may Lead to More Accurate Clocks and Sensors

October 15, 2019
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Brisbane, Australia — More accurate clocks and sensors may result from a recently proposed experiment, linking an Einstein-devised paradox to quantum mechanics. University of Queensland physicist...

The Milky Way Kidnapped Several Tiny Galaxies from Its Neighbour

October 11, 2019
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Riverside, CA — Just like the moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the sun, galaxies orbit each other according to the predictions of cosmology. For example, more than 50 discovered satellite...

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