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There are more than 3,900 confirmed planets beyond our solar system. Most of them have been detected because of their "transits" -- instances...

Tech: New Ultima Thule discoveries from NASA’s New Horizons — (Report)

Data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which explored Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule earlier this week, is yielding scientific discoveries daily. Among the...

Tech: Physicists are first to laser cool neutral plasma — (Report)

Rice University physicists have created the world's first laser-cooled neutral plasma, completing a 20-year quest that sets the stage for simulators that re-create...

Tech: Unlocking new paths toward high-temperature superconductors — (Report)

In the 1980s, the discovery of high-temperature superconductors known as cuprates upended a widely held theory that superconductor materials carry electrical current without...

Tech: Carrying and releasing nanoscale cargo with ‘nanowrappers’ — (Report)

This holiday season, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) -- a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at...

Tech: Physicists uncover new competing state of matter in superconducting material — (Report)

A team of experimentalists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and theoreticians at University of Alabama Birmingham discovered a remarkably long-lived...

Tech: Images of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule unveil the very first stages...

Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored -- the Kuiper Belt object...

Tech: Wind-tunnel testing of gull wings could be used to design more efficient flying...

A unique collaboration between University of British Columbia (UBC) zoologists and U of T Engineering's aviation expert Professor Philippe Lavoie provides new insights...

Tech: New Horizons flyby target is unlike anything explored in space — (Report)

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is set to fly by a distant "worldlet" 4 billion miles from the Sun in just six days, on...

Tech: Researchers develop 128Mb STT-MRAM with world’s fastest write speed for embedded memory —...

A research team, led by Professor Tetsuo Endoh at Tohoku University, has successfully developed 128Mb-density STT-MRAM (spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory) with...

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