A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain how some black holes can reach enormous masses relatively ...
Astronomy
Sep 19, 2025
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Metal oxides are abundant in nature and central to technologies such as photocatalysis and photovoltaics. Yet, many suffer from poor electrical conduction, caused by strong repulsion between electrons in neighboring metal ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 8, 2025
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In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. Wang Feng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with Prof. Paolo Fornasiero from the University of Trieste ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 4, 2025
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Microgreens, which are young, edible plants that only take one to three weeks to harvest, are more than garnish at trendy restaurants—they could be the answer to global hunger, according to plant scientists at Penn State. ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 26, 2025
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Chinese scientists have developed a remarkable machine that could revolutionize how humans build structures on the moon. The device works like a 3D printer powered by concentrated sunlight, turning lunar soil (known as regolith) ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 7, 2025
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Light can behave in very unexpected ways when you squeeze it into small spaces. In a paper in the journal Science, Mark Brongersma, a professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University, and doctoral candidate ...
Nanophysics
Jul 31, 2025
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Researchers have created a microphone that listens with light instead of sound. Unlike traditional microphones, this visual microphone captures tiny vibrations on the surfaces of objects caused by sound waves and turns them ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 31, 2025
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Using 3D holograms polished by artificial intelligence, researchers introduce a lean, eyeglass-like 3D headset that they say is a significant step toward passing the "Visual Turing Test."
Optics & Photonics
Jul 28, 2025
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Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT are notorious for being power-hungry. To tackle this challenge, a team from the Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL) has come up with an optical chip that can transfer ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 11, 2025
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Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new class of lanthanide-doped nanomaterials that exhibit extraordinarily high optical nonlinearity, exceeding a magnitude of 500. This achievement ...
Nanophysics
Jun 19, 2025
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