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As a student astronomer scanning the skies with homemade instruments a quarter of a century ago, Didier Queloz spent months doubting the data that...
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Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for research that increases the...
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A leading science facility in the English countryside is helping in a bid to decipher Roman-era scrolls carbonised in the deadly eruption of Mount...
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The laser technique comes from Purdue University and it is hoped the method will unlock the tough material to be used for next-generation electronics....
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Researchers from the University of Basel have demonstrated, for the first time, what an individual electron looks like in an artificial atom. Thanks to...
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The kilogram has been measured the same way for the past 130 years, based on a cylinder constructed from a platinum-iridium alloy (proportionately 90...
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Borophene is composed of a single-atom layer of boron and its special properties mean that it could revolutionize the performance of sensors, batteries, and...
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Technologists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have teamed up with scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and...
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For the study, the scientists, based at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, ‘flash-froze’ a flat crystal of 150 beryllium ions (electrically charged...
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The nurse who cared for late British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking was on Tuesday banned for failing “to provide the standards of good, professional care...