Physicists develop a method to detect single-atom defects in semiconductors
Michigan State University combined terahertz laser light, shown as a wavy red arrow, with a scanning tunneling microscope, or STM, […]
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A ‘word processor’ for genes – Scientists discover a fundamental new mechanism for biological programming
Visualization of the bridge recombinase mechanism. Credit: Visual Science Arc Institute scientists have discovered the bridge recombinase mechanism, a revolutionary
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In search of dark matter with the world’s coolest quantum detectors
The experiment is about 10,000th of a degree above absolute zero in a special refrigerator; Dr. Autti (right). Credit: Lancaster
New organic molecule breaks phosphorescence efficiency records and paves way for rare metal-free applications
Chemical structure of the molecule and phosphorescence photographs taken under UV radiation. Credit: Osaka University A research team led by
What Voyager 1’s near-death experience says about the future of space exploration
From more than 15 billion miles away, NASA engineers last April began repairing a space probe headed for the constellation
‘Once in a lifetime event’: a rare chance to see an explosion in a dwarf star 3,000 light years away | Astronomy
In what is being called a “once-in-a-lifetime event,” light from a thermonuclear explosion in a star has been traveling toward
Extreme solar flares and a weak magnetic field are a deadly combination for Earth: ScienceAlert
The spectacular aurora at the beginning of May this year showed the power that solar storms can unleash as radiation,
A cluster of dusty young stars found around our galaxy’s central black hole
Larger / The central black hole of the Milky Way is in a very crowded neighborhood. Supermassive black holes are
Modern human DNA has traces of the Neanderthal – except for the Y chromosome
from Jenny Graves /Conversation Neanderthals, the closest cousins of modern humans, lived in parts of Europe and Asia until their