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Operating a cold space accelerator
An accelerator in California operates at temperatures close to absolute zero to generate 1 million X-ray pulses per second.
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Helicopter 'captures' the rocket returning to Earth
After launching the satellite into orbit, the first stage of the Electron rocket was captured by Rocket Lab - the US space company - using a helicopter when it was falli…
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Ancient gem discovery could be a 'time machine' in the future
The magical ancient gem could help scientists create large particles that are a hybrid of light and matter, leading to a leap in science and technology through a future…
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Crazy plan to 'capture' the rocket to return to Earth by helicopter
US space launch service provider Rocket Lab is intending to implement a 'crazy' plan to pick up a booster rocket when the vehicle launches back to Earth from space.
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This new material will help us light up the house without using electricity
Researchers have prepared a new series of sustainable luminescent materials by refining lignin, a key component of wood, in a 3D polymer network that simulates the wood…
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New discovery: Strange metal makes scientists 'wink' for research
A team of US and Chinese researchers have found the exotic metal in a material where charge is carried not by electrons-electron particles, but by a wave-like entity cal…
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Scientists create unprecedented isotope of magnesium
The world's lightest magnesium isotope was created, giving new insights into the binding energies of electrons as they orbit the nucleus.
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Making the world's brightest X-ray laser machine
10 meters underground and not far from Stanford University, scientists are perfecting a laser machine that could change the way the building blocks of the universe are s…
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Four-electron cluster - Special state opens up new possibilities for superconductivity and advanced electronics
Huge potential from the newly discovered state of the electron.
New technology
The microscope can observe moving light
The team at the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion) develops quantum electron microscopes that give the clearest picture of light moving inside the material.
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The woman discovered the first corona virus on the human body in 1964
June Almeida was born in 1930, the same woman who discovered the first human coronavirus in the world.
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Constructing the electronic structure of benzene, a compound with electrons that exists in 126 different directions
The difficult problem that has puzzled science for years has been solved, creating a breakthrough in optoelectronics.
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Diamond bends at the nanoscale
The scientists project an electric field force then use a scanning electron microscope to affect the mechanical properties of diamond nanofibers.
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Why is the woman looking at the road badly but looking for things very well?
According to previous studies, men are more likely to identify directions than women, but women are much better at finding lost items.
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First atomic bond recording
The pair of rhenium atoms were put into an empty carbon nanotube and then shone a beam of high-energy electrons to create a 18-second film.