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NASA spacecraft completes farthest flyby in history. What’s next?

“Scientists at last have their first good look at a primordial piece of the solar system orbiting more than four billion miles away. On the final evening of 2018, the biggest New Year’s Eve party in the solar system …

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Enters Close Orbit Around Bennu, Breaking Record

“At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters …

Physicists record “lifetime” of graphene qubits

“First measurement of its kind could provide stepping stone to practical quantum computing. Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have recorded, for the first time, the “temporal coherence” of a graphene qubit — meaning how long it can maintain a special state …

Physicists uncover new competing state of matter in superconducting material

“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 new state of matter in an iron pnictide superconductor, which reveals a laser-induced formation of …

Precision experiment first to isolate, measure weak force between protons, neutrons

“A team of scientists has for the first time measured the elusive weak interaction between protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom. They had chosen the simplest nucleus consisting of one neutron and one proton for the study …

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 a write speed of 14 ns for use in embedded memory applications, such as cache in …

Researchers Make World’s Smallest Tic-Tac-Toe Game Board with DNA

“Move over Mona Lisa, here comes tic-tac-toe. It was just about a year ago that Caltech scientists in the laboratory of Lulu Qian, assistant professor of bioengineering, announced they had used a technique known as DNA origami to create tiles …

Scientists from Portugal and Norway develop new generation of 3D printing for industry

“(Translated with Google Translate) For the first time, a team of researchers from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC) and the Norwegian Technological Institute for Industry (SINTEF) developed a robotic 3D printing system with …

Scientists move quantum optic networks a step closer to reality

“A crucial step has been achieved in understanding quantum optical behavior of semiconductor nanomaterials. Scientists have moved quantum optic networks a step closer to reality. The ability to precisely control the interactions of light and matter at the nanoscale could …

Scratch 3.0 is here!

“Hi folks! It’s here! We are excited to let you know that Scratch 3.0 has launched! As of today, Scratch 3.0 has officially become part of the Scratch Online Community (scratch.mit.edu). With the introduction of …