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Producing Water on the Moon is Now a Reality

Water production on the surface of the Moon is now feasible thanks to a chemical-physical process that allows oxygen to be extracted from regolith (lunar sand).

14 May 2021

Researchers use Experimental Data to Extract Proton Mass Radius

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have presented a study of the proton mass radius in the Physical Review D journal on May 11th, 2021.

13 May 2021

Simple Mechanism Explains Field Effect in Superconducting Metals

Researchers from Lancaster University have shown that the latest “discovery” of the field-effect in superconductors by other physicists is nothing but hot electrons in the end.

13 May 2021

NASA and CRESST II Partner Institutions Sign $178 Million Cooperative Agreement

The Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology II (CRESST II), a partnership between NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and four universities--led by researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park's (UMD) Department of Astronomy--has received an extension of its cooperative agreement through March 2027 and been funded in the amount of $178 million.

13 May 2021

Scientists Invent a Method for Predicting Solar Radio Flux for Two Years Ahead

Scientists at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) and their colleagues from the University of Graz & the Kanzelhöhe Observatory (Austria) and the ESA European Space Operations Centre developed a method and software called RESONANCE to predict the solar radio flux activity for 1-24 months ahead.

13 May 2021

Physicists Develop Novel Technique for Studying Vortices in Quantum Fluids

A novel technique for studying vortices in quantum fluids has been developed by Lancaster physicists.

12 May 2021

Highly Stable Organic Solar Cells can be Made Using Quantum Mechanics

A new study by researchers from the University of Gothenburg has discovered that quantum mechanics can be employed to make steadier and more easily generated organic solar cells.

12 May 2021

Scientists Unravel Optical Response of Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Multiple Quantum Wells

A team of researchers at the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, in collaboration with Bielefeld University and Technical University Braunschweig in Germany, came closer to unraveling the complicated optical response of wide-bandgap semiconductor multiple quantum wells and how atomic-scale lattice vibration can generate free space terahertz emission.

11 May 2021

Researchers Design Single Photon Emitters for Quantum Circuits

The promise of a quantum internet depends on the complexities of harnessing light to transmit quantum information over fiber optic networks.

11 May 2021

Voyager I Spacecraft Detects Constant Drone of Plasma Waves

Voyager 1, one of the two sibling spacecraft launched by NASA about 44 years ago and currently the most distant man-made object in space, continues to work and zoom toward infinity even today.

11 May 2021

Collisions of Gas Clouds Hovering in Space Induce Birth of Star Cluster

Stars develop by the gravitational contraction of clouds of gas in space and can possess several masses. Enormous stars, along with various other stars, might develop a large star cluster (a group of over 10,000 stars).

10 May 2021

A New Type of Aurora Revealed in Decades-Old Video Footage

Physicists have found a previously undiscovered phenomenon called ‘diffuse auroral erasers’ while analyzing a video of auroras recorded in 2002.

By Robert Lea 10 May 2021

Study Explains Why Accurate Clocks Require the Most Energy

A novel experiment has demonstrated that if a clock consumes more energy, its timekeeping will be more precise.

10 May 2021

New Findings may Enable Scientists to Study Dark Energy with Improved Precision, Accuracy

Cosmologists have found a way to double the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions - one of their tried-and-true tools for studying the mysterious dark energy that is making the universe expand faster and faster.

10 May 2021