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Furious Stellar Winds From Their Dying Stars
Planetary Shields Will Buckle Under Furious Stellar Winds From Their Dying Stars – Nearly Impossible for Life To Survive Any life identified on planets orbiting white dwarf stars almost certainly…
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A Bug’s Life: Mountains on Neutron Stars May Be Only Fractions of Millimeters Tall
Photo: Artist’s depiction of a neutron star. Credit: ESO / L. Calçada New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions of millimeters high, due…
Environment
Amazing New 3D Images of Shark Intestines Show They Function Like Nikola Tesla’s Valve
A CT scan image of the spiral intestine of a Pacific spiny dogfish shark (Squalus suckleyi). The beginning of the intestine is on the left, and the end is on…
Archeology
The oldest ornament in the world was discovered in Germany
Archaeologists have unearthed a carved deer hoof more than 51,000 years old at the entrance to the Unicorn Cave (located at the foot of the Harz Mountains in Germany), according…
Archeology
Ancient relics found near the palace of “Napoleon of Persia”
Archaeologists during excavations in the vicinity of the former residence of Nadir Shah, who is called "Napoleon of Persia", discovered a large number of relics, the oldest of which date…
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Snapshots of Ultrafast Switching in Quantum Electronics Could Lead to Faster Computing Devices
A team of researchers created a new method to capture ultrafast atomic motions inside the tiny switches that control the flow of current in electronic circuits. Pictured here are Aditya…
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Harnessing the Dark Side: Optical Singularities Could Be Used for a Wide Range of Applications
Cross-section of the designed heart-shaped phase singularity sheet. The extended dark region in the center image is a cross-section of the singularity sheet. The phase is undefined on the singularity…
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Increased Cell Phone Data Use Is Negatively Affecting Wi-Fi Performance
Wi-Fi utilizes a spectrum that is “unlicensed,” which can be utilized by any device or network that follows FCC transmission rules. In recent years, cellular providers have also begun using…
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Recycling Lost Energy: Quantum Laser Turns Energy Loss Into Gain?
Exciton-polaritonic PT symmetry: Direct coupling between upward- and downward-polariton modes in a six-fold symmetric microcavity with loss manipulation leads to PT-symmetry breaking with low-threshold phase transition. Credit: KAIST A new…
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NASA’s NEOWISE Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope Gets Two-Year Mission Extension
Artist’s concept of NASA’s WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft, which was an infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope active from December 2009 to February 2011. In September 2013 the spacecraft was…