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Mysterious Intra-Group Light Unraveled by Astronomers

An international team of astronomers has used a novel technique to characterize the stars that reside in the ‘intra-group light,’ or faint light that exists between galaxies.

25 Nov 2022

Solving Black Hole Jet Mystery with NASA’s IXPE

Blazars are some of the brightest celestial bodies. They consist of a supermassive black hole that can produce two strong jets perpendicular to the disc on either side, feeding off material that is swirling around it in a disc.

24 Nov 2022

Unpaired Electrons Initiating Chemistry at “Distant” Locations

Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy (DOE) assisted in assessing how unpaired electrons in atoms at one end of a molecule can affect chemical reactivity on the molecule’s other side.

24 Nov 2022

Physicists Demonstrate Spin Correlation Between Paired Electrons

Physicists at the University of Basel have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that there is a negative correlation between the two spins of an entangled pair of electrons from a superconductor.

24 Nov 2022

Physicist Strikes Gold, Solving 50-year Lightning Mystery

The chances of being struck by lightning are less than one in a million, but those odds shortened considerably this month when more than 4.2 million lightning strikes were recorded in every Australian state and territory over the weekend of 12-13 November.

24 Nov 2022

New Research on Superconducting Qubit Relaxation Times

Scientists from the I.B.M Watson Research Center in the USA have presented research into the dynamics of superconducting qubit relaxation times, a key candidate for high-performance quantum computing. Their findings have appeared online in the journal npj Quantum Information.

23 Nov 2022