An international team of astronomers have for the first time combined the power of 64 radio telescope dishes to detect the faint signatures of neutral hydrogen gas across cosmological scales. The fe… [+4223 chars]
White dwarf stars (WDs) are the most copious members of the stellar cemetery. It is extensively acknowledged that over 97% of the stars in the universe will turn into WDs. These copious objects are s… [+3025 chars]
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A paper recently published in the journal Nuclear Engineering and Technology demonstrated the feasibility of using graphene to control hydrogen isotopes, specifically tritium. Study… [+7697 chars]
A new map of one of the most massive stars in our galaxy is shedding light on what happens in the final stages of a giant star's death. Astronomers created a detailed 3D map of VY Canis Majoris, a d… [+5791 chars]
Vertebrate expansion of the DNase1 and DNase2 genes To trace the origin of the human DNase1 and DNase2 families, we started by determining the occurrence of the different DNase genes in eukaryotes. … [+25909 chars]
Researchers from Cornell University, Ohio State University, Technical University of Munich, and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station are using synchrotron light to investigate how moisture… [+2397 chars]
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Trapped-ion quantum computers are quantum devices in which trapped ions vibrate together and are fully isolated from the external environment. These computers can be particularly useful for investiga… [+4292 chars]
If you are skilled at playing puzzles on your smartphone or tablet, what does it say about how fast you learn new puzzles, or, more broadly, how well you can focus, say, in school or at work? Or, in … [+4080 chars]
Frog-eating bats trained by researchers to associate a phone ringtone with a tasty treat were able to remember what they learned for up to four years in the wild, new research has found.The study acq… [+4978 chars]
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