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Sound Waves Let Researchers Build Stuff With the Force
A new acoustic levitation device is even capable of picking up and placing drops of glue.
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Ignition confirmed in a nuclear fusion experiment for the first time
A 2021 experiment achieved the landmark milestone of nuclear fusion ignition, which data analysis has now confirmed – but attempts to recreate it over the last year haven’t been able to reach ignition again.
Look! Hubble snaps a dazzling image of the Orion Nebula’s surreal rainbow clouds
Hubble, you’ve still got it!
A new image captures a startling star-forming region in the iconic constellation.
Beware! Dramatic image of spiral galaxies previews the future fate of the Milky Way
This could be us, but you’re taking the picture 5 billion years too early.
These two merging galaxies are locked in a cosmic death spiral similar to the one that binds us to the Andromeda Galaxy.
Scientists build a magnet in China that is a million times stronger than Earth’s magnetic core
The 45.22-tesla magnet sits just shy of the record for the world’s most powerful magnet.
China started using the world’s most powerful magnet for scientific research. The magnet is roughly the size of a coin, but creates an impressive 45.22-tesla magnetic field.
The world’s most powerful magnet ever (45.5 tesla) was developed by the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in the U.S.
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The magnet is said to be roughly the size of a coin, with a diameter of 33mm. Despite its modest size, it creates a stable magnetic field of 45.22 tesla, which is more than a million times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field.
Designing hetero-interfaces toward new optoelectronic functionalities using large-scale computations
Assembling Lego-like, 2D heterostructures can give rise to emergent properties and functionalities very different from the intrinsic characteristics of the constituents.
Density functional theory (DFT)-based band-structure calculations can shed light on interfacial properties of different heterostructures.
Scientists identify what makes humans able to speak compared to other primates
It’s an evolutionary simplification of the larynx.
A so-called evolutionary simplification of the larynx led to human speech. This trait is still present today. Researchers are unsure at what point in history it evolved.
Scientists have spotted the evolutionary modifications in the voice box that make humans able to speak compared to other primates. They did this through an examination of the voice box, or larynx, in 43 species of primates.
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No vocal membrane.