Space & Planetary
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Saturn's moon Titan could harbor life, but only a tiny amount, study finds
University of ArizonaPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- The Planetary Science Journal
- Funder
- International Space Science Institute
In the search for life on exoplanets, finding nothing is something too
ETH ZurichPeer-Reviewed Publication
What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? An international team of researchers, led by ETH Zurich's Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics studied what insights can be gained from a 'no life detected' scenario in future exoplanet surveys.
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- The Astronomical Journal
A football field of shelving: recordkeeping and standardization at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
University of Chicago Press JournalsPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- Isis
Catching a runaway star ejected from a globular cluster by an intermediate-mass black hole
Science China PressPeer-Reviewed Publication
This paper reports the discovery of a high-velocity star J07 ejected from globular cluster M15 approximately 21 million years ago, providing strong evidence for the presence of an IMBH constrained to within a few AU of the central region of M15.
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- National Science Review
Technion researchers discover a new type of quantum entanglement
Technion-Israel Institute of TechnologyPeer-Reviewed Publication
The Technion researchers revealed the process that photons undergo from the stage in which they are introduced into the nanoscale system until they exit the measurement system, and found that this transition enriches the space of states that the photons can reside in. In a series of measurements, the researchers mapped those states, entangled them with the same property unique to nanoscale systems, and confirmed the correspondence between photon pairs that indicates quantum entanglement.
This is the first discovery of a new quantum entanglement in more than 20 years, and it may lead in the future to the development of new tools for the design of photon-based quantum communication and computing components, as well as to their significant miniaturization.
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- Nature
Warwick astronomers discover doomed pair of spiralling stars on our cosmic doorstep
University of WarwickPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- Nature Astronomy
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- Royal Society