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Image: Super-Earth Skimming Habitable Zone of Red Dwarf

Super-Earth Skimming Habitable Zone of Red Dwarf

Source: NAO JP   Posted: 8/12/22

Scientists have developed an infrared observational instrument mounted on the Subaru Telescope to search for signs of planets around red dwarf stars.
Image: Smaller, Cheaper Lidar?

Smaller, Cheaper Lidar?

Source: Optica   Posted: 8/10/22

Researchers have developed a new chip-based beam steering technology that provides a promising route to small, cost-effective and high-performance lidar (or light detection and ranging) systems.
Image: Quantum cryptography: Hacking futile

Quantum cryptography: Hacking futile

Source: LMU DE   Posted: 8/8/22

Scientists successfully implemented an advanced form of quantum cryptography for the first time.
Image: A better way to quantify radiation damage in materials

A better way to quantify radiation damage in materials

Source: MIT   Posted: 8/4/22

More complete than existing methods, the new approach might enable longer operational lifetimes for nuclear reactors.
Image: Why Jupiter doesn’t have rings like Saturn

Why Jupiter doesn’t have rings like Saturn

Source: UCR   Posted: 8/4/22

Because it’s bigger, Jupiter ought to have larger, more spectacular rings than Saturn has. But new UC Riverside research shows Jupiter’s massive moons prevent that vision from lighting up the night sky.
Image: NASA’s Fermi Hunts for Gravitational Waves From Monster Black Holes

NASA’s Fermi Hunts for Gravitational Waves From Monster Black Holes

Source: NASA   Posted: 4/10/22

The NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope brings us closer to observing gravitational waves.
Image: Latest W Boson Mass Measurement Shock

Latest W Boson Mass Measurement Shock

Source: Fermilab   Posted: 4/10/22

CDF collaboration at Fermilab announces most precise ever measurement of W boson mass to be in tension with the Standard Model.
Image: Astronomers May Have Discovered the First Planet Outside of Our Galaxy

Astronomers May Have Discovered the First Planet Outside of Our Galaxy

Source: CFA Harvard   Posted: 11/12/21

Signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy may have been detected for the first time.
Image: Smart Material Switches Between Heating and Cooling in Minutes

Smart Material Switches Between Heating and Cooling in Minutes

Source: Duke   Posted: 11/9/21

Deployed on roofs or facades, passive technology could greatly reduce HVAC energy consumption in buildings.
Image: A novel way to generate visible light

A novel way to generate visible light

Source: INRS   Posted: 11/7/21

An international research team demonstrates how to generate extremely short pulses of visible light using an industrial-grade laser system.
Image: Researchers set ‘ultrabroadband’ record with entangled photons

Researchers set ‘ultrabroadband’ record with entangled photons

Source: URochester   Posted: 11/5/21

Researchers have generated record ‘ultrabroadband’ bandwidth of entangled photons using the thin-film nanophotonic device
Image: Research finally reveals ancient universal equation for the shape of an egg

Research finally reveals ancient universal equation for the shape of an egg

Source: UKent   Posted: 11/3/21

Researchers have discovered the universal mathematical formula that can describe any bird’s egg existing in nature, a feat which has been unsuccessful until now.

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