The image above may look like a fairly normal picture of the night sky, but what you see is much more special than just the shining stars. Each of these white dots is an active supermassive black hole. And each of those black holes lifts the material into the heart …
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Nature has a way of embarrassing our best technology. For decades, scientists have been trying to create the ultimate sound absorber – a carefully engineered material that can handle sound waves for stealth movement or smooth peace and quiet. It turns out, however, that the beloved ‘metastructure’ may already exist …
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause tens of thousands of infections daily. Without a preventive, therapeutic, or antiviral vaccine, scientists are working at a hectic pace to find a solution. Now, a new study published on the prepress server bioRxiv * June 2020 shows that a candidate peak protein vaccine …
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A 50-year theoretical process to extract energy from a spinning black hole finally has experimental verification. Using an analogue of the required components, physicists have shown that the Penrose process is indeed a plausible mechanism for extracting some of that rotational energy, if we could ever develop the means. That …
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