Physics
Evidence of water vapor detected in the atmosphere of Smertrios
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Artist’s concept of Smertrios. Credit: NASA. Using the CARMENES spectrograph, astronomers have found evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of a ...
A concentrated beam of particles and photons could push us to Proxima Centauri
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Depiction of the diffraction issues with particle a photon beams, and how a “self-guided” combined beam keeps providing pushing power even to ...
Permaculture found to be a sustainable alternative to conventional agriculture
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by Kerstin Theilmann, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau For a stable agricultural system with functioning cycles, the individual components (animal species, crops, trees, ...
Using copper to convert CO₂ to methane could be game changer in mitigating climate change
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Credit: Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2024.124061 Carbon in the atmosphere is a major driver of climate change. Now ...
‘Motion-picture’ method reveals shape of the Milky Way’s dark matter halo
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In this artist’s impression, the galactic disk warp “dances gracefully” under the torque of the dark matter halo. Credit: Hou Kaiyuan and ...
Wild bats found to possess high cognitive abilities previously considered exclusive to humans
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Fruit bat. Credit: Yuval Barkai Researchers at Tel Aviv University have tracked free-ranging Egyptian fruit bats from a colony based in the ...
Layers of carbonate provide insight into the world of the ancient Romans
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View of the ruins of the Barbegal mill complex in 2018. Credit: Robert Fabre Archaeologists face a major challenge when they intend ...
Research shows Darwin and Wallace both right on butterfly evolution
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Birdwing butterflies of the Troides haliphron species group, in which females (right) were observed to be more visibly diverse than males (left). ...
Ultrafast laser enables 2D material manipulation for next-gen devices
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Some 2D materials such as graphene, silicene (different from silicone), black phosphorus, and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are electrically and mechanically superior ...
Physicists Are Closing In on The Elusive “Chameleon Particle” and Discovering the Mysterious Nature of Dark Energy
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At a lab in the center of the University of California, Berkeley, just off Oppenheimer Way, the street named for the “father ...
