Category: Science

Artist’s impression of helium-rich material from a companion star accreting onto a white dwarf. Before the explosion, a large amount of material is ejected from the satellite. The research team hopes to clarify the connection between the emitted strong radio waves and this exposed material. Credit: Adam Makarenko/WM Keck Observatory In the last issue of...

A prototype of an innovative metamaterial with unconventional properties uses electrical signals to control the direction and intensity of energy waves passing through a solid body. This innovative metamaterial, characterized by a strange mass density, represents a deviation from Newton’s second law, because force and acceleration do not go in the same direction. Huang envisions...

A vacuum chamber containing the atomic chip. Credit: Thomas Schweigler, TU Wien How do quantum particles exchange information? An intriguing hypothesis regarding quantum information was recently confirmed by an experimental verification conducted at TU Wien. If you randomly select an individual from the crowd who is noticeably taller than average, it is very likely that...

Maine health officials have reported the first death this year from a case of the Powassan virus in a Sagadahoc County resident, saying the adult who died developed neurological symptoms, they said Fox News Friday. The case was also confirmed by the state Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The resident was pronounced dead after...

Katryn Shepherd has described the shooting that killed her boyfriend Matthew Wilson as “an absolute freak”. The single bullet traveled 200 meters from a tree-lined park to her apartment in Brookhaven, Georgia, through a 10-centimeter gap in the stair railing, piercing the bedroom wall and headboard before hitting Wilson in the head as he lay...