When Faye Yap, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, saw a dead spider curled up in the hallway, it made her wonder if it could be used as a robotic component. Turning dead spiders into mechanical claws may be some people’s idea of a nightmare scenario, but it could have tangible benefits. Spider legs can …
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A representation of the Earth, at first without an inner core; second, with an inner core beginning to develop about 550 million years ago; third, with an outermost and innermost inner core, about 450 million years ago. Researchers from the University of Rochester used paleomagnetism to determine these two key dates in the history of …
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This illustration depicts the light-induced collapse of the nanoscale charge order in a 2D crystal of tantalum disulfide (star shapes) and the generation of a hidden metastable metallic state (spheres). Credit: Frank Yi Gao The development of high-speed strobe flash photography in the 1960s by the late MIT professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton allowed us to …
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A representation of the Earth, at first without an inner core; second, with an inner core beginning to develop about 550 million years ago; third, with an outermost and innermost inner core, about 450 million years ago. Researchers from the University of Rochester used paleomagnetism to determine these two key dates in the history of …
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SpaceX ended its busiest July ever with a pair of Falcon 9 Starlink launches, simultaneously breaking its annual launch record by less than seven full months in 2022. The company has now carried out six launches – five of which were Starlink missions – this month. The last two missions were launched about 44 hours …
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An illustration shows a type of quantum matter called charge density waves, or CDWs, superimposed on the atomic structure of a nickel oxide superconductor. (Bottom) The nickel oxide material, with nickel atoms in orange and oxygen atoms in red. (Top left) CDWs appear as a pattern of frozen electron ripples, with higher electron density in …
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It’s been an incredible two weeks for fans of gravitational lenses. JWST made headlines with a spectacular infrared view of the lens in the SMACS 0723 image, and it got everyone talking. Still, seeing gravitationally lensed objects is nothing new. Some can be seen from the ground, and of course the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) …
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Researchers have mapped material on the back of Jupiter’s moon Europa, revealing that sulfur detected on its surface likely came from Io, a volcanically active large Jovian moon. By using the The Hubble Space Telescopea team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) observed Europe in the ultraviolet wavelengths, filling a void in the various …
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An illustration shows a type of quantum matter called charge density waves, or CDWs, superimposed on the atomic structure of a nickel oxide superconductor. (Bottom) The nickel oxide material, with nickel atoms in orange and oxygen atoms in red. (Top left) CDWs appear as a pattern of frozen electron ripples, with higher electron density in …
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Look east-northeast skyward before sunrise on Tuesday (July 26) to catch the thin crescent moon gliding across the sky above Venus. Venus will shine at a bright magnitude of -3.9, just a few finger widths (or 4 degrees celestial south) to the lower right of the old moon, according to astronomer Chris Vaughan of Astrogeo.ca …
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