As we know, landing on Mars is difficult. Many landing attempts over the decades have failed, with the lander sadly crashing into the desert surface of Mars. Sure hits are more the…
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Bose-Einstein condensate created using quasiparticles for the first time
Physicists at the University of Tokyo have developed the first Bose-Einstein condensate from quasiparticles, a landmark breakthrough that could significantly advance quantum computing. The Bose-Einstein condensate is known as the enigmatic “fifth…
The lightest neutron star of all time or the strange matter of quarks?
October 26, 2022 (News from Nanowerk) The lightest neutron star found to date is located at the center of supernova remnant HESS J1731-347. Dr. Victor Doroshenko, Dr. Valery Suleimanov, Dr. Gerd Pühlhofer…
Tree rings tell of a mysterious cosmic storm that strikes every thousand years
The story of the bombardment of the Earth by cosmic radiation is written in the trees. Specifically, when radiation hits the Earth’s atmosphere, it can alter any nitrogen atoms it hits to…
Increase the phantasmagoria in the tangle of atoms
Einstein originally referred to the entanglement of creation as a frightening action at a distance – the strange effect of quantum mechanics in which what happens to one atom somehow influences another…
New NASA instrument detects methane ‘super-emitters’ from space
The EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation) study has identified more than 50 methane hotspots around the world. NASA scientists, using a tool designed to study how dust affects the climate,…
New research shows how octopuses may have evolved
The shell-shaped egg of Argonauta argo. Credit: Biology and evolution of the genome A new paper in Biology and evolution of the genome indicates that a type of octopus appears to have…
The vast and the curious
By David Pike Texas Women’s University October 25, 2022 – DENTON – There is a dimension unknown to all, but not very common. It is vast, but embedded in the nucleus of…
Away Team Tech: 3D flora and fauna at your fingertips – Astrobiology
A simplified diagram of the photogrammetry method. The slowly rotating object (Carassius auratus langsdorfii), suspended by a nylon fishing line, is photographed from several angles. The resulting 3D model is displayed at…
Ancient bacteria could be hiding under the surface of Mars – Astrobiology
Deinococcus radiodurans (affectionately nicknamed “Conan the Bacteria”) is uniquely adapted to survive the harsh environment of Mars. In experiments, he survived astronomical amounts of radiation in a freezing and arid environment. CREDIT…