Liquid stream of silk solution solidifies to a fiber, adheres to and lifts a glass laboratory beaker. Credit: Marco Lo Presti, Tufts …
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Team members pose in the clean room (left). Thermal image of the 10.4 kW uranium-238 beam on the target (top right). Three …
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Large-scale map (330,000 light years side length) of the density of the 217 million stars from the Gaia DR3 XP sample in …
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Satellite data show massive bombs dropped in dangerous proximity to Gaza Strip hospitals in 2023
by debarjunby debarjunHospital locations and the number of bomb craters within 800 m and 360 m of hospitals. Credit: Kunichoff et al., 2024, PLOS …
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Physics
Theoretical study demonstrates existence of giant photocaloric effects in ferroelectric perovskites
by debarjunby debarjunSketch of the light-induced ferroelectric-to-paraelectric phase transition analyzed in our study, which we have shown it can be used for solid-state refrigeration …
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Chirality determines the strength of a coupling between nuclear spins, study finds
by debarjunby debarjunThis image illustrates how molecules in nature—in this case, a generic amino acid—can have two enantiomers, or mirror-image versions. Credit: NASA The …
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Physics
Accelerator studies propel quantum research into a higher energy orbit
by debarjunby debarjunScattering of meson wave packets on spin quantum simulators. Credit: Elizabeth R. Bennewitz / University of Maryland Physicists share a common interest …
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Carefully exposing children to more misinformation can make them better fact-checkers, study suggests
by debarjunby debarjunCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In an era when online misinformation is seemingly everywhere and objective facts are often in dispute, UC Berkeley …
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Smart new laser technology can monitor greenhouse gases faster, more sensitively
by debarjunby debarjunRecurrence sampling applied to two-dimensional imaging of a gas plume. Credit: Nature Photonics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01530-y Scientists at the National Institute of …
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Astronomers discover dozens of massive stars launched from young star cluster R136
by debarjunby debarjunArtistic impression of star cluster R136 containing hundreds of thousands of stars in a huge star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. …