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A "buy two, get one free" deal on supermassive black holes at NGC 6240.

SN 1987A has puzzled astronomers for decades now. First spotted in 1987, the supernova never revealed its remnant neutron star. Until now.

The photo captured via the Hubble telescope depicts a galaxy, dubbed UGC 1810, engaged in a "titanic battle" with multiple star systems.

An international research team led by scientists from Göttingen and Potsdam proved for the first time that the galaxy NGC 6240 contains three supermassive black holes. The unique observations, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, show the black holes close to each other in the core of the galaxy. The study points to simultaneous merging processes during the formation of the largest galaxies in the universe.

From the very beginning, it was clear that the Phoenix cluster was different from other galaxy clusters. When assistant professor of physics Michael

New TNG50 galaxy simulation reveals the formation of a spiral galaxy in unprecedented detail and resolution

Get lost in a glowing telescope vision of our home galaxy.

In 1987, a star exploded, creating the brightest supernova to light up Earth's skies in 400 years. That star's corpse has been missing for 30 years. Now, researchers think they've found it.

Here's everything you need to know about the Perseus constellation and its heroic namesake.

NASAs Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a peek at the location of the most energetic outburst ever seen in the universe a blast of gamma-rays a trillion times more powerful than visible light. Thats because in a few seconds the gamma-ray burst (GRB) emitted more energy than the Sun wi

Astronomers have confirmed the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are being born at its core. Using data from NASA space telescopes and a National Science Foundation radio observatory, researchers have gathered new details about how the most massive black holes in the uni

An interdisciplinary team of scientists led by the University of Leeds have uncovered the fundamental mechanism by which human saliva lubricates our mouth. Their multi-scale study opens the door to advancing dry mouth therapies and saliva substitutespotentially bringing relief to people who suffer from dry mouth, which can affect swallowing, speech, nutritional intake and quality of life.

An Army-funded project may boost 5G and mm-Wave technologies, improving military communications and sensing equipment. Carbonics, Inc., partnered with the University of Southern California to develop a carbon nanotube technology that, for the first time, achieved speeds exceeding 100GHz in radio

An Army-funded project may boost 5G and mm-Wave technologies, improving military communications and sensing equipment.

In the latest edition of Science, an international team of researchers, led by Drexel University professors Yury Gogotsi, PhD, and Ekaterina Pomerantseva, PhD, present a comprehensive analysis of two decades of energy storage research involving nanomaterials. The authors lay out a roadmap for how this technology can enable the world's urgent shift toward better energy storage devices and sustainability.

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Northwestern University researchers have developed a new thin, wireless system that adds a sense of touch to any virtual reality (VR) experience. Not only does this platform potentially add new dimensions to our long-distance relationships and entertainment, the technology also provides prosthetics with sensory feedback and imparts telemedicine with a human touch.

When it comes to electronics, bigger usually isn't better. This is especially true for a new generation of wearable communication systems that promise to connect people, machines and other objects in a wireless 'internet of things.' To make the devices small and comfortable enough to wear, scientists need to miniaturize their components. Now, researchers in ACS Nano have made the tiniest radio-frequency antennas reported yet, with thicknesses of about 1/100 of a human hair.

The gas turbines powering aircraft engines rely on ceramic coatings that ensure structural stability at high temperatures. But these coatings don't control heat radiation, limiting the performance of the engine.

Silicon integrated circuits, which are used in computer processors, are approaching the maximum feasible density of transistors on a single chip -- at least, in two-dimensional arrays.

Scientists at Aalto University, Finland, and Nagoya University, Japan, have found a new way to make ultra-clean carbon nanotube transistors with superior semiconducting properties.

From high-end speakers to electric SUVs to projectors could break the bank, this is the ultimate festive shopping list for the well-heeled and excessively generous.

The +RECORD PLAYER is the ultimate all-in-one sound system, with a Pro-Ject Debut III turntable nested in an acoustically shielded real wood veneer cabinet housing 100W of custom drivers.

The EVGA SuperNOVA series of power supplies are currently on sale at Newegg.com for an amazingly almost 50% off!

The Glaciers series is currently on sale per the Newegg Black Friday which makes the discount anywhere from 14% to 50% off the original price.

Selected McIntosh amplifiers and preamplifiers can have their digital hearts transplanted with a new DAC upgrade.

Having one of the best PSUs is so important for your PC. So, read on to find the best PC power supplies you can buy today.

As more of us move into smaller homes and apartments, there's a growing demand for high-quality wireless speakers that don't take up much space but deliver audiophile sound that's big enough to fill a room. Canadian firm Kanto has just unleashed its TUK speakers with a range of innovative features.

HONG KONG, S.A.R., Nov. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- HELM Audio, a British-American Audio Innovation company, today announced that all four of its upcoming new...

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After being unveiled at the Munich High End Show earlier in 2019, Chord Electronics Huei phono preamp is now available to buy

NEW YORK and LONDON, Oct. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Skimlinks, the leading global commerce content platform, has announced first year results for its...

A Professor Emeritus at the University of Ohio claims to have found evidence of insect and reptile life on Mars. He even has photos of them.

NASA’s InSight lander is not giving up on Mars: The robot’s “mole” is back to digging after being stuck in the ground for a while. A Twitter update confirmed the mole’s status and …

The race to populate Mars is on. But before humans can visit the red planet, we need to send out robot scouts to see the lay of the land. The next generation of Martian robotics will use sophisticated AI, novel propulsion methods, and flexible smallsats to meet the challenges of colonizing a new world.

Scientists have detected ribose and other bioessential sugars in ancient meteorite samples for the first time, suggesting that RNA may have come from space and played a crucial role in the origins of life on Earth.

Where the two hemispheres of Mars meet, the planet is covered in broken-up terrain: a sign that slow-but-steady flows of icy material once forged their way through the landscape, carving out a fractured web of valleys, cliffs and isolated mounds of rock.

Wolfe Creek Crater, one of the world's largest meteorite craters, is much younger than previously thought.

NASA has vehemently denied that there areliving "insect- and reptile-like creatures"on Mars, after a professor at Ohio University made the controversial claim earlier this week.

A professor emeritus of Ohio University claims that he has found the evidence of insect life on Mars in the pictures sent from the red planet, but NASA and other researchers do not agree.

NASA is about to put a rover to the test in Antarctica, and it's unlike any robot the agency has ever shot into space. A far cry from the bulky, boxy Mars rovers Opportunity and Curiosity, the BRUIE rover looks almost like a toy by comparison.

A little robotic explorer will be rolling into Antarctica this month to perform a gymnastic feat driving upside down under sea ice. BRUIE, or the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, is being developed for underwater exploration in extraterrestrial, icy waters by engineers at NASA's Jet Pro

Scientists are hoping to convince NASA to send a flagship mission to Venus in order to learn more about the planets past and if how habitable it could have been.The flagship mission is most expensive class of a NASA project, and scientists want to go deeper into the research of habitability on Venus.

Organosulfur compounds are widely present in our bodies and the natural environment. They are found in onions, shallots and even cauliflower. Medical research finds that when consumed, they can protect against cancer, heart disease and even diabetes. There is also evidence of these compounds' antiviral and antibacterial uses. About a quarter of all pharmaceutical drugs currently use OSCs.

Researchers found evidence of sugar molecules in primitive meteorites, according to a new study. Now, if you please, I would like to taste the rocks.

The biological sensors change color once they have successfully snared a target molecule, and will soon have a host of important environmental, medical and security applications.

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a low-temperature catalyst for removing NOx gas from industrial exhaust using ammonia. Composed of bulk "defective" vanadium oxide instead of vanadium oxides supported on titanium oxide as in commercial catalysts, the catalyst works at lower temperatures (< 150 degrees Celsius) with much higher efficiency. The team demonstrated a clear improvement in performance, and identified the reaction mechanisms responsible for the d

An international research team was able to experimentally show in the laboratory a completely new reaction path for the largest natural sulfur source in the atmosphere. The team from the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), the University of Innsbruck and the University of Oulu are now reporting in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters on the new degradation mechanism for dimethyl sulfide (DMS), which is released mainly by the oceans.

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a low-temperature catalyst for removing NOx gas from industrial exhaust using ammonia. Composed of bulk 'defective' vanadium oxide instead of vanadium oxides supported on titanium oxide like in commercial catalysts, the catalyst works at lower temperatures (< 150 degrees Celsius) with much higher efficiency. The team demonstrated a clear improvement in performance, and identified the reaction mechanisms responsible for the difference.

A number of carbon capture startups have launched in recent years. You can add Air Co. to the list. It might be the first company to use atmospheric CO2 to produce liquor. The …

As an alternative to the depletion of fossil resources, the reduction of CO2 emitted from fossil fuel combustion into valuable chemicals and fuel has drawn increasing attention. Due to the highly thermodynamic stability of CO2, it is still very challenging to find a sustainable and cost-efficient route to selectively convert inert CO2 at a high conversion rate under mild conditions. The water could also be a significant factor governing the reaction mechanism. On the one hand, water is one produ

Scientists at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have now developed completely coke-resistant Ni-based single-atom catalyst (SAC).

A team of researchers from the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia, both in Canada, has developed a new kind of glue that is able to bond polyethylene materials together. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group explains how they created a carbene crosslinker with two diazirine motifs. Felix de Zwart, Johan Bootsma and, Bas de Bruin with the University of Amsterdam have published a Perspective piece in the same journal issue outlining the work by the t

Two pathways diverged in a chemical synthesis, and one molecule took them both. Chemists at the University of Tokyo have studied how molecular building blocks can either form a spherical cage or an ultrathin sheet that shows some of the basic properties of a "smart" material that can respond to its environment.

A recent study compared the reaction mechanisms of CO2 hydrogenation over the stepped Cu(211) surface in the absence and presence of water by microkinetic simulations. The water on each hydrogenation step and the whole activity and selectivity could kinetically accelerate the hydrogenation on CO2 to COOH, promoting the reverse water gas shift reaction to produce CO, but hardly influences the CO2 hydrogenation to methanol kinetically. High initial partial pressure of water thermodynamically inhi

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) collaboration, a large group of researchers from CERN and other institutes worldwide, has recently presented a series of precision measurements of the properties of cosmic Helium isotopes 3He and 4He. These measurements were collected by the AMS, a spectrometer located on the International Space Station (ISS).

Researchers have followed up a major 2016 observation with a second similar one, both suggesting a fifth force of nature and a new kind of subatomic particle.

Nanooptical traps are a promising building block for quantum technologies. Austrian and German scientists have now removed an important obstacle to their practical use. They were able to show that a special form of mechanical vibration heats trapped particles in a very short time and knocks them out of the trap.

Special light beams can be used to manipulate molecules or small biological particles. However, these optical tweezers only work with objects in empty space. Any disturbing environment would deflect the light waves and destroy the effect. This is a problem, in particular with biological samples. Now, a special method was developed to calculate the perfect wave form to manipulate small particles in the presence of a disordered environment, even if they cannot be touched directly.

In physics, anything that isn't forbidden must occur. So why don't the strong interactions violate CP-symmetry?

The secrets of dark matter could possibly be explained by antimatter particles - doppelgangers of matter particles that have the opposite electric charge.

Could the profound mysteries of antimatter and dark matter be linked? Thinking that they might be, scientists from the international BASE collaboration, led by Stefan Ulmer of the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, and collaborators have performed the first laboratory experiments to determine whether a slightly different way in which matter and antimatter interact with dark matter might be a key to solving both mysteries.

A study that takes a novel approach to the search for dark matter has been performed by the BASE Collaboration at CERN working together with a team at the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). For the first time the researchers are exploring how dark matter influences antimatter instead of standard matter.

A new paper asks: What if antimatter is the portal into the dark universe?

RIKEN researchers and collaborators have performed the first laboratory experiments to determine whether a slightly different way in which matter and antimatter interact with dark matter might be a key to solving both mysteries.

An international research collaboration from Poland, the UK and Russia has created a two-dimensional system -- a thin optical cavity filled with liquid crystal -- in which they trapped photons. As the properties of the cavity were modified by an external voltage, the photons behaved like massive quasiparticles endowed with a magnetic moment, called 'spin', under the influence of an artificial magnetic field. The research has been published in Science on Friday, Nov. 8, 2019.

Cosmic rays are particles from outer space, typically protons, travelling at almost the speed of light. When the most energetic of these particles strike the atmosphere of our planet, they interact with atomic nuclei in the atmosphere and produce cascades of secondary particles that shower down to the Earth's surface. These extensive air showers, as they are known, are similar to the cascades of particles that are created in collisions inside particle colliders such as CERN's Large Hadron Collid