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Quantum Entanglement Offers Unprecedented Precision for GPS and More

University of Arizona researchers are using quantum entanglement to detect radio frequencies with more sensitivity and accuracy than ever.

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Quantum Entanglement Offers Unprecedented Precision for GPS and More

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Pulsar Discovery from an Enormous Telescope

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The 500-m FAST radio dish, built into a natural basin in southwest China.

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ESO Telescope Sees Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole, Proves Einstein Right

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ESO Telescope Sees Star Dance Around Supermassive Black Hole, Proves Einstein Right

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T2K Results Restrict Possible Values of Neutrino CP Phase

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Figure 1: The arrow indicates the value most compatible with the data. The gray region is disfavored at 99.7% (3-omega) confidence level. Nearly half of the possible values are excluded.

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Air pollution remains low as Europeans stay at home

Further analyses are showing the continued low levels of nitrogen dioxide concentrations across Europe – coinciding with lockdown measures implemented to stop the spread of the coronavirus. New data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, from the European Union Copernicus programme, show some cities seeing levels fall by 45—50% compared to the same period last year.

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Nitrogen dioxide concentrations over Europe

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NASA Reports Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Depletion Hit Record Low in March

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Arctic stratospheric ozone reached its record low level of 205 Dobson units, shown in blue and turquoise, on March 12, 2020.Arctic stratospheric ozone reached its record low level of 205 Dobson units, shown in blue and turquoise, on March 12, 2020.

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Staff at Berkeley Lab’s X-Ray Facility Mobilize to Support COVID-19-Related Research

Advanced Light Source experiments focus on proteins related to virus that has infected about 2M people worldwide

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ALS Beamline 5.0.1, pictured here, is one of the beamlines that has been enlisted for COVID-19-related experiments.

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Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data

While the star it orbits is much smaller than our Sun, it gets about 75% of the sunlight Earth does. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory managed Kepler mission development.

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This artist's concept shows what exoplanet Kepler-1649c could look like on its surface. The planet is the closest to Earth in size and temperature found yet in data from the Kepler space telescope.

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Event Horizon Telescope observes a black hole-powered jet

MIT Haystack Observatory researchers coauthor a paper announcing the observation of a surprising structure in a distant quasar, 3C 279.

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The multi-wavelength 3C 279 jet structure is seen in April 2017. The wavelengths (λ) in millimeters, observation days, and arrays are noted in each panel.

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Gemini Detects Most Energetic Wind from Distant Quasar

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The image at left shows an artist’s conception of the central portion of the galaxy that hosts the quasar SDSS J135246.37+423923.5 viewed at optical wavelengths. Thick winds obscure our view, and imprint signatures of the energetic outflow on the SDSS spectrum. The image at right shows the same artist’s view at infrared wavelengths, as seen by the Gemini GNIRS detector. The thick outflow is transparent at infrared wavelengths, giving us a clear line of sight to the quasar. The infrared spectrum yields the quasar redshift, and from that reference frame, we measured the record-breaking outflow velocity.