One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments was struck by a micrometeoroid and while it has been damaged, NASA says it’s not cause for alarm and the telescope is still on schedule… [+3349 chars]
Credit: Ola Jakup Joensen, Niels Bohr Institute Benjamin Mottelson was a US-born physicist who specialized in theoretical work on the structure of the atomic nucleus. During the 1950s, in close coll… [+6020 chars]
A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led research team has solved a longstanding mystery surrounding strontium titanate, an unusual metal oxide that can be an insulator, a semiconductor, or a metal.… [+4206 chars]
The acoustic Penrose cavity we consider has the following geometry. Its top and bottom curves are ellipses, whose length of semi-major axis and semi-minor axis is a and b, respectively, and the lengt… [+12048 chars]
By analyzing the data from ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers from the Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and elsewhere, have investigated X-ray intraday … [+3884 chars]
NASA's Voyager 1 team is trying to work out why the spacecraft appears to be confused about its location in space, but the mission's distance from Earth makes solving the issue challenging. The Voya… [+2502 chars]
For many years, the human genome was viewed as a book of life in which sections of great eloquence and economy of expression were interspersed with vast stretches of gibberish. The legible sections c… [+6633 chars]
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Scientists say they have discovered remains on Britain's Isle of Wight that might belong to a meat-eating dinosaur larger than any other known from Europe. The creature was closely related to the b… [+3652 chars]
Two giant galaxy clusters crashing into each other triggered enormous shock waves stretching 1.6 million light-years through space. The findings, revealed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory , are … [+4834 chars]
Researchers from Ohio University presented evidence for a new carbon solid called “amorphous graphite” this week, as the world’s need for carbon-based materials, like graphite, increases. (left side… [+5853 chars]
Jun 13 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Trinity College Dublin researchers have created luminescent, self-healing gels with a variety of potential applications ranging from counterfeiting bank notes to ne… [+5306 chars]
