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Environment
Ancient ocean slowdown warns of coming climate chaos
By analyzing the chemistry of shells like these, scientists can learn about the temperature and movement of ancient ocean waters.…
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Physics
Researchers adjust the Casimir force using magnetic fields
Experiment setup and console design. Credit: Nature Physics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02521-0 Research teams led by Prof. Zeng Changgan and Zhang…
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Space
The pair plasmas found in deep space can now be generated in the laboratory
How it works: A proton (far left) from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator at CERN hits carbon nuclei (small…
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Physics
Physicists use machine learning techniques to search for exotic-looking collisions that could reveal new physics
The occurrence of one of the CMS events determined by the AI algorithm as highly anomalous and therefore potentially coming…
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Physics
Scientists discover more Milky Way-like galaxies in the early universe, advancing our understanding of how galaxies formed
Some of the spiral galaxies studied by the researchers in the study. Credit: Vicki Kuhn University of Missouri scientists are…
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Space
Astronomers discover parallel disks and jets bursting from a pair of young stars
At left, a mid-infrared image of the rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the focus is…
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Physics
Combined X-ray surveys and supercomputer simulations trace 12 billion years of cosmic black hole growth
Researchers have provided the best modeling to date of the growth of supermassive black holes found at the centers of…
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Space
The study confirms that the rotation of the Earth’s inner core has slowed down
The inner core began to slow down around 2010, moving slower than the Earth’s surface. Credit: University of Southern California…
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Physics
The new theory links quantum geometry to electron-phonon coupling
An illustration of electron-phonon coupling between valence and conduction states in real-time and real-space. Credit: Cmelni/Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_Phonon_Coupling_Between_Valence_and_Conduction_States.png. A new…
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Space
As they target the massive gas cloud, astronomers notice changes in the thickness of the Milky Way galaxy
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope targeted the Smith Cloud for their observations, however, the inner Milky…
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