WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - Astronomers have peered into a teeming stellar nursery in the Tarantula Nebula - a colossal cloud of gas and dust next door to our galaxy - gaining new understanding o… [+3982 chars]
The Berry curvature and Chern number are crucial topological qualities of a quantum mechanical origin characterizing the electron wave function of materials. These two elements play a very important … [+5724 chars]
Ultrafast light-driven control of magnetization on the nanometer length scale is key to achieve competitive bit sizes in next generation data storage technology. Researchers at Max Born Institute in … [+4779 chars]
The launch of NASA's CAPSTONE moon mission has been pushed back again, this time to no earlier than June 25. NASA and launch provider Rocket Lab had been eyeing yesterday (June 13) as the soonest po… [+1982 chars]
Swirling disks of gas and dust, the stuff that could one day form planets, surround young stars. Through NASA's Disk Detective program, citizen scientistsvolunteers from the publiccollaborate with pr… [+4233 chars]
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the first big survey of microbial diversity in the human body, published in Nature by the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium, of which I was a member. … [+4874 chars]
In a paper published in the open-access journal Scientific Reports, researchers prepared carbon-based nanofluids (CbNFs) by using a two-step method and determined their thermal conductivity (λ) and d… [+5045 chars]
<ul><li>The ESA and Nasa discussed the prospect of putting the first European on the Moon.</li><li>They signed a deal strengthening collaboration for future lunar exploration.</li><li>The agencies al… [+2150 chars]
Members of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team are pictured with the Collier Trophy during the Robert J. Collier Dinner in Washington on June 9, 2022. The team was awarded the 2021 Collier Trophy "… [+1319 chars]
<ul><li>The ESA and Nasa discussed the prospect of putting the first European on the Moon.</li><li>They signed a deal strengthening collaboration for future lunar exploration.</li><li>The agencies al… [+2150 chars]
In a paper published today in Science Advances, researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a method using the polarization of light to maximize information storage density and computing p… [+3593 chars]
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