Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) broke a new record by storing a qubit in a crystal for 20 milliseconds, a press statement reveals. The new record in quantum storage could help to d… [+2808 chars]
Astronomy research facilities are the largest contributors to the space science sectors carbon footprint, with their total carbon footprint matching those of some small countries, estimates a new stu… [+3761 chars]
A few short decades ago, we could only speculate about the possibility of planets beyond our own solar system, but then we started finding them. Little by little, the universe has become a bustling p… [+2540 chars]
Until recently, geochronologist Li Xian-research Huas was restricted to Earths molten rocks. However, when a Chinese spacecraft delivered the countrys first Moon pebbles in December 2020, Li shifted … [+5383 chars]
A new type of ultraviolet light has been shown in a study to reduce the level of indoor airborne microbes by more than 98 per cent in less than five minutes. Scientists at Columbia University Vagel… [+3466 chars]
Newswise — Biologists and physicists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have teamed up to create new opportunities for cancer treatment using laser-generated proton beams. The o… [+10423 chars]
A paper on the experiment titled "Experimental protocol for testing the mass-energy-information equivalence principle" has been published in the journal AIP Advances. Dr. Melvin Vopson of the Univer… [+1445 chars]
NASA is set to launch a pair of rockets through an active aurora to study the natural light display. Often spotted in a polar climate, aurora borealis (also known as the northern lights) are actuall… [+2261 chars]
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Last year was a big year for Linux, as the operating system (OS) played a critical role in a major achievement: the first-ever powered flight on another planet. On 19 April last year, the Ingenuity d… [+4272 chars]
Space can be terrifying. After all, there’s so much we just don’t know about the universe beyond our own planet’s atmosphere. While a lot of the scary parts of space–like no oxygen–can’t hurt us on E… [+2843 chars]
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