New theoretical research finds that many white dwarfs may explode in supernova in the distant far future, long after everything else in the universe has died and gone quiet. …read more Source:: Science
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Teleportation: Important step in improving quantum computing
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•Researchers are exploring new ways of creating quantum-mechanical interactions between distant electrons. The research marks an important advance in quantum computing. …read more Source:: Science
Relying on ‘local food’ is a distant dream for most of the world
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•A recent study shows that less than one-third of the world’s population could currently meet their demand for food produced in their local vicinity. …read more Source:: Science
How resident microbes restructure body chemistry
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•A comparison of normal and germ-free mice revealed that as much as 70 percent of a mouse’s gut chemistry is determined by its gut microbiome. Even in distant organs, such …read more Source:: Science
Hubble captures a dozen sunburst arc doppelgangers
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•Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a galaxy in the distant regions of the Universe which appears duplicated at least 12 times on the night sky. This …read more Source:: Science
Matter around a young star helps astronomers explore our stellar history
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•Astronomers have mapped the substance aluminum monoxide in a cloud around a distant young star — Origin Source I. The finding clarifies some important details about how our solar system, …read more Source:: Science
Matter falling into a black hole at 30 percent of the speed of light
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•Astronomers report the first detection of matter falling into a black hole at 30% of the speed of light, located in the center of the billion-light year distant galaxy PG211+143. …read more Source:: Science
Galactic ‘wind’ stifling star formation is most distant yet seen
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•For the first time, a powerful ‘wind’ of molecules has been detected in a galaxy located 12 billion light-years away. Probing a time when the universe was less than 10 …read more Source:: Science
Cosmic lens helps Hubble capture image of most distant star ever seen
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•Peering through the gravitational lens of a massive galaxy cluster 5 billion light years from Earth, astronomers have discovered a single, blue supergiant star 9 billion light years away, farther …read more Source:: Science
Star in the constellation Pisces is ‘eating’ planets
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•Astronomers have discovered that a distant star called RZ Picseum in the constellation Pisces is crushing one or more planets into its orbit into a vast cloud of gas and …read more Source:: Science