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NASA’s Fermi Spots a Weird Pulse of High-Energy Radiation Racing Toward Earth
When the core of massive star collapses, it can form a black hole. Some of the surrounding matter escapes in the form of powerful jets that rush outward at almost…
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Discovery of 10 Faces of Plasma: New Insights in Fusion and Plasma Science
Physicists Hong Qin, left, and Yichen Fu, with rendering of 10 phases of plasma from their Nature Communications paper. Credit: Photos and collage by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications Scientists have…
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Researchers Investigate Newly Introduced Butterfly That Could Become Widespread in Canada
Male and female Polyommatus icarus mating. Credit: Stephanie A. Rivest This summer, if you see a butterfly with wings that are blue on top with orange spots underneath, you may…
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Dynamic Control of THz Wavefronts by Rotating Layers of Cascaded Metasurfaces
A metadevice for dynamically controlling THz wavefronts by rotating layers of cascaded metasurfaces. Credit: Shanghai University Cascaded metasurfaces for dynamic control of THz wavefronts Electromagnetic (EM) waves in the terahertz…
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Scientists Uncover New Opportunities for Light-Powered Battery and Fuel Cell Design
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, et al. induced substantial motion of oxide ions within perovskite crystals by using pulses of ultraviolet…
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Vitamin E, CoQ10 and GSH Supplements Reverse Heart Damage Caused by Cancer in Scientific Study
Vitamin E supplements, as well as the antioxidants CoQ10 and GSH, reversed heart damage in fruit flies caused by a tumor. Study Links Free Radicals to Heart Damage Caused by…
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Red vs. Blue: Astronomers Nail Down the Origins of Rare Loner Dwarf Galaxies
In this image, the fall of a blue ultra-diffuse galaxy into a galaxy system and its subsequent ejection as a red ultra-diffuse galaxy, is depicted. Credit: MIT The results provide…
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Optical Observations of BepiColombo Spacecraft as a Proxy for a Potential Threatening Asteroid
An artist’s impression of the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab BepiColombo is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) designed…
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Spectacular Ice Age Landscapes Beneath the North Sea Revealed by 3D Seismic “MRI” Scans
Close up image of an esker (a sedimentary cast of a meltwater channel formed beneath an ice sheet), discovered within a tunnel valley using the new 3D seismic reflection data.…
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Increasing the Efficiency of Chemical Reactions To Help Decarbonize Fuels and Chemicals
This diagram illustrates the new process for enhancing reaction rates in an electrocatalytic process. The catalyst layer, made of gold or platinum, is shown as gray spheres at the bottom,…