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Superconductor Feature Seen Operating at Temperatures Once Thought Impossible : ScienceAlert

Superconductor Feature Seen Operating at Temperatures Once Thought Impossible : ScienceAlert

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A crucial feature of superconductivity has just been observed at much higher temperatures than scientists had thought possible. Physicists have found electrons ...

Russia launches 89th Progress cargo spacecraft to ISS

Russia launches 89th Progress cargo spacecraft to ISS

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Russia launched its 89th cargo craft to fly to the International Space Station on Wednesday (Aug. 14). The unpiloted Progress MS-28 freighter ...

Scottish and Irish rocks confirmed as rare record of ‘snowball Earth’

Scottish and Irish rocks confirmed as rare record of ‘snowball Earth’

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A view of Garbh Eileach, the largest island in the Garvellach island chain where the gradational transition into snowball Earth is recorded. ...

Ancient Babylonian tablets found to contain grim omens for the future

Ancient Babylonian tablets found to contain grim omens for the future

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A set of 4,000-year-old tablets that have mystified experts for over a century have finally been deciphered – and they don’t paint ...

Weird Fish Breaks Largest Animal Genome Record With 30x Our DNA : ScienceAlert

Weird Fish Breaks Largest Animal Genome Record With 30x Our DNA : ScienceAlert

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The longest genome of all the animals on Earth belongs not to a giant, or a cognitively advanced critter, but a writhing, ...

UC Berkeley Prints Glass Nanoparticles

UC Berkeley Prints Glass Nanoparticles

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

In a recent video, [Joel] of 3D Printing Nerd interviews a researcher at University of California, Berkeley about their work with glass ...

UC Berkeley Prints Glass Nanoparticles

UC Berkeley Prints Glass Nanoparticles

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

In a recent video, [Joel] of 3D Printing Nerd interviews a researcher at University of California, Berkeley about their work with glass ...

Scientists create light, super-strong gold by puncturing holes in it

Scientists create light, super-strong gold by puncturing holes in it

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Chinese scientists have unveiled a novel method to produce pure gold that combines lightweight properties with remarkable strength.  This innovative approach, developed ...

Tidal disruption event AT2018fyk | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Tidal disruption event AT2018fyk | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A star that almost had a lucky escape after an encounter with a black hole has become the cosmic behemoth’s second course. ...

How we reconstructed the ancestor of all life on Earth

How we reconstructed the ancestor of all life on Earth

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Understanding how life began and evolved on Earth is a question that has fascinated humans for a long time, and modern scientists ...