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How did life get started on Earth? Atmospheric haze might have been the key

A recent study accepted to The Planetary Science Journal and currently posted to the arXiv preprint server investigates how the organic hazes that existed on Earth between the planet’s initial formation and 500 million years afterwards, also known as Hadean geologic eon, could have contained the necessary building blocks for life, including nucleobases and amino acids. This study holds the potential to not only help scientists better understand the conditions on an early Earth, but also if these same conditions on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, could produce the building blocks of life, as well. …read more […]

‘Flawed’ material resolves superconductor conundrum

Christopher Parzyck had done everything right. Parzyck, a postdoctoral researcher, had brought his nickelate samples—a newly discovered family of superconductors—to a synchrotron beamline for X-ray scattering experiments. He was measuring his samples, which he’d synthesized with a new method, in the hope of detecting the suspected presence of “charge ordering”—a phenomenon in which electrons self-organize into periodic patterns. The phenomenon has been linked to high-temperature superconductivity. …read more […]

Experimentation explores defects and fluctuations in quantum devices

Experimental research conducted by a joint team from Los Alamos National Laboratory and D-Wave Quantum Systems examines the paradoxical role of fluctuations in inducing magnetic ordering on a network of qubits. …read more […]

NASA to study effects of radio noise on lunar science

In February 2024, Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission will launch to the moon’s South Polar region, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. This mission is part of the CLPS ongoing effort to bring down the cost for science investigations and technology demonstrations going to the moon and to make them more routine in the lead-up to the Artemis landings later this decade. …read more […]

Excavation of colossal caverns for Fermilab’s DUNE experiment completed

Excavation workers have finished carving out the future home of the gigantic particle detectors for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Located a mile below the surface, the three colossal caverns are at the core of a new research facility that spans an underground area about the size of eight soccer fields. …read more […]

Device could jumpstart work toward quantum internet

In research that could jumpstart work toward the quantum internet, researchers at MIT and the University of Cambridge have built and tested an exquisitely small device that could allow the quick, efficient flow of quantum information over large distances. …read more […]

Terry Lovelace, Former US Attorney’s Alien and UFO Encounter

Validating abduction accounts is a challenging task due to the lack of evidence, which often leads to abductees…

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Skyscraper-size asteroid will buzz Earth on Friday, safely passing within 1.7 million miles

An asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday. …read more […]

Generating powerful optical vortices directly from a thin-disk laser oscillator

In recent years, optical vortices have attracted extensive attention in laser advanced manufacturing because of their annual intensity distribution and orbital angular momentum. …read more […]

Single proton illuminates perovskite nanocrystal-based transmissive thin scintillators

National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers have developed a transmissive thin scintillator using perovskite nanocrystals, designed for real-time tracking and counting of single protons. The exceptional sensitivity is attributed to biexcitonic radiative emission generated through proton-induced upconversion and impact ionization. …read more […]

Short X-ray pulses reveal source of light-induced ferroelectricity in SrTiO₃

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, Germany and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States have gained new insights into the development of the light-induced ferroelectric state in SrTiO3. …read more […]

Magnetic launch of black hole jets in Perseus A

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has recently resolved the jet base of an evolving jet of plasma at ultra-high angular resolution. …read more […]

Physicists develop highly robust time crystal

A team from TU Dortmund University recently succeeded in producing a highly durable time crystal that lived millions of times longer than could be shown in previous experiments. By doing so, they have corroborated an extremely interesting phenomenon that Nobel Prize laureate Frank Wilczek postulated around ten years ago and which had already found its way into science fiction movies. …read more […]

Space Coast’s new general spearheads more cooperation with private space companies

Brig. Gen. Kristin Panzenhagen wants commercial companies to solve Space Force problems, but if the U.S. Space Force can help them, that’s OK with her, too. …read more […]

Hexagonal copper disk lattice unleashes spin wave control

A collaborative group of researchers has potentially developed a means of controlling spin waves by creating a hexagonal pattern of copper disks on a magnetic insulator. The breakthrough is expected to lead to greater efficiency and miniaturization of communication devices in fields such as artificial intelligence and automation technology. …read more […]