Scientists have identified a young star with four Jupiter- and Saturn-sized planets orbiting around it. This is the first time that detection of so many massive planets has been made in such a young system.
Australian researchers using a CSIRO radio telescope in Western Australia have nearly doubled the known number of ‘fast radio bursts’— powerful flashes of radio waves from deep space.
An international collaboration involving scientists in Tenerife, the US and the UK, are using Diamond, the UK’s world class science institute operating a synchrotron that provides industrial and academic user communities with access to state of the art analytical tools, to investigate Moon rocks recovered during the Apollo Missions in a brand new way.
Stone was indispensable for the Stone Age, bronze for the Bronze Age and iron for the Iron Age. Quantum matter is equally indispensable for the digital 21st century.
Since the detection of gravitational waves for the first time by LIGO and VIRGO, black holes, due to their mysterious and elegant peculiarities, have aroused widespread discussions and interests in public.
A team from the University of Maryland has been awarded $1 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop methods for generating single photons at room temperature in semiconducting carbon nanotubes.
The Earth is currently surrounded by debris launched into space over several decades. This space junk can collide with satellites and not only cause damage to spacecraft but also result in further debris being created.
Although it is possible to utilize the quantum mechanical properties, for instance, in technology and encrypting messages, the drawback is the occasional vanishing of information.
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to observe radiation from cosmic rays in two neighbouring galaxies, showing areas of star formation and echoes of past supernovae.
Researchers revisited old data & found information on the shape of coronal mass ejections that could assist in protecting satellites in space.
The “chicken or egg” paradox was first proposed by philosophers in Ancient Greece to describe the problem of determining cause-and-effect.
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