[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public Domain Even in the strange world of open quantum systems, the arrow of time is constantly pointing to the front – most of the time. New experiments conducted at the University of Washington in St. Louis compare the trajectories of the superconducting circuits called qubits, and find that they follow the … Read more
[ad_1] The left side is a depiction of a Yakuba Drosophila male while the right side is a male of Drosophila santomea. Drosophila santomea has lost most of its body color over the past five million years since the divergence of both species, including bands of pigmentation that adorn each abdominal segment and complete pigmentation … Read more
[ad_1] Saturn will be so close to Earth this month that its rings will be visible through a normal telescope. On Tuesday, the ringed planet will shine at its maximum and will be less than a million kilometers from the Earth. This means that observers of the planet can see the rings of Saturn in … Read more
[ad_1] Here is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Fireworks have existed for millennia. They flood the sky with bright shards of scarlet, emerald and ivory. But never blue. Pyrotechnicians have been trying to produce blue fireworks for centuries and they have not been successful yet. Why is blue so elusive? John Conkling: Blue has … Read more
[ad_1] From about 1550 to 1850, a global cold wave called the small glaciers of the Ice Age in the Arctic. On Ellesmere Island in Canada, the Teardrop Glacier extended its frozen tongue across the landscape and swallowed a small tuft of moss. Since 1850, the plant was frozen under a 100-foot thick ice sheet … Read more
[ad_1] A look inside the heating and loading device with scanning electron microscope in situ. Credit: North Carolina State University Researchers have developed a technique to track microscopic changes in metals or other materials in real time, even when exposed to extreme heat and loads over a long period of time, a phenomenon known as … Read more
[ad_1] The beautiful photos of Mars were taken by the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft. The ESA spacecraft has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2004, offering scientists an unparalleled view of Mars. In the last batch of photos from Mars, the probe crossed the north pole of Mars, where ESA said that … Read more
[ad_1] A team of researchers at UMass Lowell discovered that egg shells can promote the growth of new strong bones needed for medical procedures. The technique developed by UMass Lowell could one day be used to repair bones in patients with injuries due to aging, accidents, cancer and other diseases, or during military fights, according … Read more
[ad_1] Saturn will be shining throughout the month of July, but that will give a particularly good performance Tuesday when it will reach opposition, according to AccuWeather. The opposition occurs when the Earth is completely aligned between the sun and another planet, forming a straight line. In this case it is Saturn and the line … Read more
[ad_1] The experimental device that focused infrared and terahertz radiation on small samples of pure graphene in the magnetic field, built by the UNIGE team. Credit: UNIGE, Ievgeniia Nedoliuk The ability to control infrared and terahertz waves with the help of magnetic or electric fields is one of the great challenges of physics that could … Read more