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Asteroids provide an extremely important resource for astronomers, which includes the way they help to unravel clues about planetary origins. During past impact events, these space rocks have also he… [+3492 chars]
Quantum Hall (QH) effect allows the exploitation of quantum coherence of electrons for various applications from metrology to quantum computation. QH interferometry is a convenient tool that provides… [+5902 chars]
Tel Aviv University researchers led the recent discovery of two new planets in remote solar systems within the Milky Way galaxy. They identified the giant planets, named Gaia-1b and Gaia-2b, as part … [+4326 chars]
A new study finds that incoming speech sounds are connected by our brain to our knowledge of grammar, which is quite abstract in nature. But the big question is how does the brain process complex gra… [+3464 chars]
In 1992, almost 30 years ago, astronomers discovered the first-ever exoplanets around a pulsar called PSR B1257+12. In a new study, astronomers revealed that such planets might be extremely rare. As… [+1558 chars]
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University led a team that cracked the conventional weight-versus-angular-resolution trade-off by developing historically lightweight optics for X-Ray space telesco… [+3691 chars]
Are you into astrophysics? Now, there is a clear chance for you to dirty hand in the black hole business. A team of Open University and the University of Southampton have invited the public to help t… [+2001 chars]
A dormant black hole at least nine times the mass of the Sun has been discovered just 160,000 light years from Earth, orbiting a star. A team of researchers known as the 'black hole police' because … [+7254 chars]
The high sensitivity of the reflection electron microscopy (REM) technique to small changes in the crystal structure and composition of the top surface layers of various crystalline materials makes i… [+6694 chars]
By mimicking features of living systems, self-organising lasers could lead to new materials for sensing, computing, light sources and displays. While many artificial materials have advanced properti… [+3768 chars]
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