The southern-central edge of the Tibetan Plateau near the border with western Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim is pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 1 February 2016. Credit: European Space Agency. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2016]/ processed by ESA ,CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO/Wikimedia Commons Closure of the Neo-Tethys Sea and the subsequent formation...
Even though conventional processors have bested Google’s Sycamore chip, they won’t hold their lead for long Superfast algorithm place crimp in 2019 claim that Google's machine had achieved "quantum supremacy." If the quantum computing era dawned three years earlier, its rising sun might have ducked behind a cloud. In 2019, Google scientists claimed they had passed...
A full moon, known as the "Strawberry Moon" is shown split in half, June 15, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/JOE SKIPPER The brand-new project entails putting three guardian satellites carrying loads of fuel and kinetic weapons into the moon's orbit around the Earth. China's "Planetary Defense System" has been capturing momentum recently, with Beijing researchers now planning to...
A pulsar with its jets and magnetic fields. Credit: NASA Far out in the Milky Way, about 22,000 light-years from Earth, a star unlike any other roars with a magnetic power that beats anything physicists have seen before. At an enormous 1.6 billion Tesla, a pulsar named Swift J0243.6+6124 smashes the previous records of around one...
A hoverfly exits the blossom of a Cypripedium wardii orchid after having fed on its pseudopollen (whitish powder visible at the lip of the pouchlike blossom). Credit: ZHENG CHEN-CHEN Research suggests pollinators, like bees and hoverflies, find the fake pollen of at least one orchid species delicious. Orchids are among the most untrustworthy flowering plants on...
Photo-driven catalytic process based on the Al–N–C catalyst. Credit: NIMTE The team of Professor Chen Liang and Professor Lu Zhiyi's team at the Ningbo Innovation and Product Engineering Institute (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) suggested a highly activated carbon-based catalyst that can make direct use of the renewable resources (e.g., solar energy)...
Image - Left: Schematic diagram of magnon junction structure and magnon blocking effect; Right: Schematic diagram of Magnon Skin Effect. Credit: IOP Spin waves, or magnons, as the elementary excitation of the magnetic system, can move spin angular momentum, giving vast prospects for the Non-volatile, low-energy-consumption, high-speed, and small-size microelectronic devices in the post-Moore...
Sustainability is a crucial concern in business and industry these days. Many firms acknowledge the demand to find the very best possible climate-neutral options for producing their products and decreasing contaminants. This indicates they are searching for manufacturing alternatives that do not call for using fossil resources. Great potential in this regard is seen...
China has reached a new milestone in humanity's experiments to control the power of the stars. In May, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' fusion machine reached 120 million degrees Celsius and remained at that temperature for 101 seconds. The last time the EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak or HT-7U) withstood a plasma vortex for so long...
