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New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have led to the first measurement of the extent of a collection of black holes in a core-collapsed globular cluster.

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Researchers take key step toward cleaner, more sustainable production of hydrogen

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Efficiently mass-producing hydrogen from water is closer to becoming a reality thanks to Oregon State University College of Engineering researchers and collaborators at Cornell University and the Argonne National Laboratory.

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Scientists invent a new method for incorporating filler particles in liquid gallium to create functional composites of liquid metal

3rd January 20213rd January 2021 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

Researchers created a novel functional composite of gallium with putty or paste-like physical properties. The composite possesses excellent electromagnetic shielding properties as well as thermal conductivity.

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Industry collaboration leads to important milestone in the creation of a quantum computer

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One of the obstacles for progress in the quest for a working quantum computer has been that the working devices that go into a quantum computer and perform the actual calculations, the qubits, have hitherto been made by universities and in small numbers. But in recent years, a pan-European collaboration has been exploring everyday transistors that are present in billions in all our mobile phones for their use as qubits.

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Researchers develop new way to break reciprocity law

26th December 2020 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

An international research team lead by Aalto University has found a new and simple route to break the reciprocity law in the electromagnetic world, by changing a material’s property periodically in time.

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Quantum wave in helium dimer filmed for the first time

24th December 2020 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

For the first time, an international team of scientists from Goethe University and the University of Oklahoma has succeeded in filming quantum physical effects on a helium dimer as it breaks apart.

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China launches GECAM all-sky scanner to study extreme cosmic events

12th December 2020 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

China has successfully launched a space telescope to study some of the most energetic events in the universe. Lifting off today from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. local time, the Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) represents one of the first new “all-sky” devices that will monitor fast-radio bursts, high-energy neutrinos and magnetars.

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China’s Chang’e 5 completes docking mission on its way back to Earth

7th December 2020 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

China’s Chang’e-5 mission completed a tricky docking maneuver on Saturday, as it prepares to return the soil samples it collected from the Moon’s surface back to Earth.

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New fuel gauge for spacecraft could keep satellites active for longer

7th December 2020 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology have now developed a solution based on a suite of sensors that detects the capacitance of liquid inside a spacecraft’s fuel tank and uses these data to reconstruct a three-dimensional picture of the remaining fuel.