Info Dump There is no shortage of debate regarding the nature of the dark matter, a mysterious substance that many physicists believe makes up a large proportion of the total mass of the universe, despite never having observed it directly. Currently, a physicist from the UK called Melvin Vopson is raising a startling possibility: that […]
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After weeks of scorching heat and dry conditions in the majority of the UK, with drought announced in parts of England, it seems that a big downpour is what we need. However, the heavy rainfall and thunderstorms predicted by the Met Office this week might be a threat. Researchers are warning that the storms can
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Scientists in Australia and the United States are starting a multi-million dollar project to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction. The last known Tasmanian Tiger, technically named Thylacine, passed away in the 1930s. The group behind the effort claims it can accomplish this using stem cells and gene-editing technology. The first Thylacine may be
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On the first anniversary of this historical achievement, the scientific results of this record experiment have been published in three peer-reviewed papers: 1 in Physical Review Letters and two in Physical Review E. More than 1,000 writers are included in one of the Physical Review Letters paper to recognize and acknowledge the many people who
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The solutions to Einstein’s formulas that describe a spinning black holes will not explode, even when poked or prodded. In 1963, the mathematician Roy Kerr discovered a solution to Einstein’s formulas that precisely described the space-time outside what we currently call a rotating black hole. (The term wouldn’t be created for a few more yrs.)
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For the first time, a possibly fatal strain of bacteria has been identified within the United States’s soil and water, causing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ask healthcare professionals to look out for signs and symptoms in patients. The bacteria, known as Burkholderia pseudomallei, causes a rare disease named melioidosis that has
A team of scientists in Hungary currently published a paper that hints at the presence of a previously unknown subatomic particle. The group first reported finding traces of the particle in 2016, and they now report more traces in a different experiment. If the outcomes are confirmed, the so-called X17 particle could help to explain
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The dead cores of 2 stars collided 130 million yrs earlier in a galaxy somewhat far away. The crash was so extreme that it originated a wrinkle in space-time– a gravitational wave. That gravitational wave and also the light from the stellar explosion traveled together throughout the cosmos. They arrived at Earth at the same
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After decades of exploration in nature’s most minor domains, physicists have finally found proof that anyons exist. 1st predicted by theorists in the early 1980s, these particle-like objects arise in realms confined to two dimensions and then under certain circumstances– like at temperatures near absolute zero and in the existence of a solid magnetic field.
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Graphene is a “wonder material” entirely made of carbon atoms with tremendous potential in the semiconductor industry. A related molecule referred to as graphyne might be even better. Graphyne, however, is challenging to create. Now, chemists have found a way to produce it in bulk. Research can now get underway. Ever Since its synthesis in
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