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James Webb Space Telescope: Finally, the edge of the universe …
Jan 21, 2024 · The telescope's unrivaled resolution and sophistication are due in no small part to the many cutting-edge devices it contains, including a guidance camera and a scientific instrument developed by ...
A 41-million-digit prime number is the biggest ever found—but ...
Nov 14, 2024 · Imagine a number made up of a vast string of ones: 1111111…111. Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. If we stacked up that many sheets of paper, the resulting tower would stretch into the ...
Harvard study finds implicit racial bias highest among white people
May 22, 2023 · Social hierarchy. Morehouse attributed these findings to the fact that white people are socially and economically dominant in the United States, where 85 percent of the participants were from (8.5 ...
Winds of change: Webb reveals forces that shape protoplanetary …
Oct 4, 2024 · A team of astronomers led by University of Arizona researchers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to obtain some of the most detailed insights into the forces that shape protoplanetary disks.
Scientists recreate sound of Earth's magnetic flip 41,000 years ago
Oct 10, 2024 · Approximately 41,000 years ago, Earth's magnetic field briefly reversed during what is known as the Laschamp event. During this time, Earth's magnetic field weakened significantly—dropping to a ...
The Earth's changing, irregular magnetic field is causing …
May 27, 2024 · The two geographic poles map to different geomagnetic coordinates. The North pole maps to around 84° Magnetic Latitude (MLAT) and 169° Magnetic Longitude (MLON) and the South pole maps to around ...
New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly …
Jul 13, 2023 · The work is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. "Our newly-devised model stretches the galaxy formation time by a several billion years, making the universe ...
What are proteins again? Nobel-winning chemistry explained
Oct 9, 2024 · What did AI do? The work of previous Nobel winners had demonstrated that chemists should be able to look at amino acid sequences and predict the structure they would become.. But it was not so ...
Quantum computing and photonics discovery potentially shrinks …
Oct 14, 2024 · Researchers have made a discovery that could make quantum computing more compact, potentially shrinking essential components 1,000 times while also requiring less equipment. The research is ...