Science

2D Electronics Get an Atomic Tuneup

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Electron microscopy experiments revealed meandering stripes formed by metal atoms of...

Debris from Stellar Explosion Not Slowed After 400 Years

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A new sequence of Chandra images, taken over nearly a decade and a half, captures motion in Kepler's supernova remnant....

Wildfires Increase in California and NASA's Terra Satellite Captures the Scene

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Wildfires Increase in California and NASA's Terra Satellite Captures the Scene

Are we still listening to space?

When LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, and its European counterpart, Virgo, detect a gravitational ripple from space, a public alert is sent out. That alert lets researchers know with a decently high confidence that this...

NASA's ECOSTRESS Monitors California's Record-Breaking Heat Wave

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This ECOSTRESS temperature map shows the land surface temperatures throughout Los Angeles County on Aug. 14, 2020, during...

Toward an Ultrahigh Energy Density Capacitor

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To make the new material, the thin film is first deposited via a...

NASA's Webb to Study Quasars and Their Host Galaxies in Three Dimensions

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Quasars—accreting supermassive black holes—are paradoxically some of the brightest objects in the universe....

NASA Researchers Track Slowly Splitting 'Dent' in Earth’s Magnetic Field

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This stereoscopic visualization shows a simple model of the Earth's magnetic field. The magnetic...