We now know how gold crystals begin to form on an atomic basis. For the first time, scientists observed – and filmed! – The first milliseconds of gold crystal formation and found that it is more complex than previous research suggested. Instead of a single, irreversible transition, the atoms come …
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It would be an ugly experience to see our world through the eyes of a migratory bird. Something about their visual system allows them to ‘see’ our planet’s magnetic field, a clever trick of quantum physics and biochemistry that helps them find vast distances. Now, for the first time, scientists …
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Above the water, they make a sound like bending cookies. Beneath the ice, they sound like chippers, chattering robots. Either way, Antarctica’s Waddle Seal should have no trouble finding work in the future Star Wars Project. “The calls of the waddle seal make an almost unbelievable, other worldwide sound under …
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The universe is full of galaxy clusters, but Able 2261 is in its own class. In the galaxy in the center of the cluster, where the largest supermassive black hole in the universe should be, astronomers have not been able to locate such an object. And the new discovery only …
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In 2017, NASA’s space probe discovered a huge, man-made ‘barrier’ around the Earth. And tests have confirmed that it is actually affecting the space weather outside our planet’s atmosphere. This means that not only are we changing the Earth so seriously, scientists are calling for a whole new geographical age …
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