Identifying gemstones is crucial in studying cultural heritage because of their immense worth. The most valuable gemstones, such as sapphire, ruby, emerald, and diamond, are commonly replaced with ch… [+6536 chars]
Does anybody remember GLASS-z13? No? It was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope and championed as the "oldest galaxy ever seen" and it was announced... six days ago. Yes, that's right. Not ev… [+4762 chars]
Title: Constraining the Planet Occurrence Rate around Halo Stars of Potentially Extragalactic Origin Authors: Stephanie Yoshida, Samuel Grunblatt, Adrian Price-Whelan First Authors Institution: Dep… [+4896 chars]
Taken from the July 2022 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Helen Edwards was a formidable force in the field of accelera… [+17823 chars]
New video footage captured by Berkeley Lab scientists reveals for the first time that nanoparticle growth is directed not by difference in size, but by defects. (Credit: Haimei Zheng/Berkeley Lab. Co… [+2967 chars]
Trap-jaw ants can slam their jaws together with extraordinary speed, with the tips of their mandibles racing at up to roughly 120 miles per hour. How they could perform such attacks, repeatedly, wi… [+5126 chars]
Bright turquoise plumes ripple through the Milky Way's companion galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, like waves in the ocean in a spellbinding new view shared by NASA. The venerable Hubble Space Tel… [+2129 chars]
,Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) in Göttingen, Germany, and Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, have developed a new theoretical met… [+4750 chars]
Using ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Swift space telescopes, an international team of astronomers have observed a nearby galaxy known as NGC 55. They discovered a new transient ultraluminous X-ray sourc… [+3089 chars]
Image: NASA NASA's trio of robots known as Astrobee have completed the first phase of a project to test whether an autonomous system can provide spacecraft monitoring, maintenance and incident respo… [+2603 chars]
Nanophotonics is the study of light-matter interactions between light and objects on the nanometer scale. The length scales involved in nanophotonics are of such great scientific interest because thi… [+7671 chars]
Nature produces layered materials, such as bone and mother-of-pearl, that become less sensitive to flaws as they age. Scientists have created composite layered 2D materials that are resistant to crac… [+2850 chars]
