Researchers at Simon Fraser University have made a crucial breakthrough in the development of quantum technology.Their research, published in Nature today, describes their observations of over 150,00… [+3073 chars]
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Each year, strong winds carry more than a billion metric tonsor the weight of 10,000 aircraft carriersof mineral dust from Earth's deserts and other dry regions through the atmosphere. While scientis… [+5715 chars]
The ship Pressure Drop deployed the submersible carrying Dawn Wright and Victor Vescovo into Challenger Deep.Credit: Reeve Jolliffe/EYOS Expeditions The deep ocean remains one of the most mysterious… [+5717 chars]
With a long history of coevolution and coadaptation with humans, dogs have developed exquisite and complex heterospecific social and cognitive capabilities. Thus, the domestic dog offers a unique opp… [+3077 chars]
Higher levels of inbreeding in thoroughbreds result in fewer racehorses, according to new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. A study carried out by scient… [+3644 chars]
Sometime around 400 million years after the birth of our universe, the first stars began to form. The universe's so-called dark ages came to an end and a new light-filled era began. More and more gal… [+4364 chars]
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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists launched the second Strontium Iodide Radiation Instrument (SIRI-2) instrument in December 2021 onboard Space Test Program (STP) Sat-6. SIRI-2, a gamma-ray sp… [+3816 chars]
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Quantum memories are one of the building blocks of the future quantum internet. Without them, it would be rather impossible to transmit quantum information over long distances and expand into a real … [+5450 chars]
A team of researchers at the National University of Singapore has developed a customized magneto-optical trap (MOT) to cool indium atoms to near absolute zero. In their paper published in the journal… [+2457 chars]