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Researchers build new device that is a foundation for quantum computing
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Schematics of the nonreciprocal device, with its circulator (center), qubit port, superconducting cavity, and output port. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj8796 ...
Scientists solve a long-standing mystery surrounding the moon’s ‘lopsided’ geology
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Schematic illustration with a gravity gradient map (blue hexagonal pattern) of the lunar nearside and a cross-section showing two ilmenite-bearing cumulate downwellings ...
Voyager 1s ‘gibberish’ message to NASA decoded after aging probe poked
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The Voyager 1’s mission was extended to 2025. But a communication breakdown in November put it in peril. Voyager 1 responds to ...
Fossil unearthed in New Zealand contains the largest fossil crab claw ever found
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Pseudocarcinus karlraubenheimeri n. sp., A, holotype, NMNZ CR.027704, showing dorsal carapace, thoracic sternum and major right cheliped (male); B, detail of right ...
Where will you be for the April 8 total solar eclipse? There’s still time to grab a spot
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People gather near Redmond, Ore., to view the sun as it nears a total eclipse by the moon, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. ...
Astronomers detect an extremely red supermassive black hole in the early universe growing in the shadows
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Analyzing images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a group of astronomers led by Dr. Lukas Furtak ...
Neanderthals’ usage of complex adhesives reveals higher cognitive abilities, scientists discover
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The stone tool was glued into a handle made of liquid bitumen with the addition of 55% ocher. It is no longer ...
Passing stars altered orbital evolution of Earth and other planets, astronomers find
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Illustration of the uncertainty of Earth’s orbit 56 million years ago due to a potential past passage of the Sun-like star HD7977 ...
Scientists identify water molecules on asteroids for the first time
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Using data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Southwest Research Institute scientists have discovered, for the first time, water molecules ...
Are space elevators possible? Physicist says they could transform humanity into a ‘spacefaring civilization’
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Humanity’s quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to ...
