Science

A Crowded Neighbourhood

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Glowing brightly about 160 000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of the Large Magellanic...

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Mars Helicopter to Fly on NASA's Next Red Planet Rover Mission

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The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with NASA's Mars 2020 rover, currently...

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Science Launching to Space Station Looks Forward and Back

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The Cold Atom Lab (CAL) is a new facility that will create a spot ten billion times colder than the vacuum of space, and...

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ALMA and VLT Find Evidence for Stars Forming Just 250 Million Years After Big Bang

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Astronomers have used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large...

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A micro-thermometer to record tiny temperature changes

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(a) Video still showing a tightly focused laser beam making contact with the thermocouple. (b) Graph showing the thermocouple's response...

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Deeper understanding of quantum chaos may be the key to quantum computers

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Quantum systems can exist in many possible states, here illustrated by groups of spins, each pointing along a certain direction....

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Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System

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An international team of astronomers has used ESO telescopes to investigate a relic of the primordial Solar System. The team...

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Harvesting clean hydrogen fuel through artificial photosynthesis

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The colorized electron microscope image shows the gallium nitride towers of the artificial photosynthesis device at 52.5k magnification....

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