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Immune system in the spotlight

Our immune system is always on alert, detecting and eliminating pathogens and cancer cells. Cellular control mechanisms cause diseased cells to present antigens on their surface like signs for the immune system. For analysis of the necessary complex antigen processing and transport processes in real time, researchers have developed a ‘cage’ that is opened with […]

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Capturing carbon with energy-efficient sodium carbonate-nanocarbon hybrid material

Carbon capture is a promising approach for mitigating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Different materials have been used to capture CO2 from industrial exhaust gases. Scientists developed hybrid CO2 capture materials containing sodium carbonate and nanocarbon prepared at different temperatures, tested their performance, and identified the optimal calcination temperature condition. They found that the hybrid material

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Breakthrough in quantum microscopy: Researchers are making electrons visible in slow motion

Physicists are developing quantum microscopy which enables them for the first time to record the movement of electrons at the atomic level with both extremely high spatial and temporal resolution. Their method has the potential to enable scientists to develop materials in a much more targeted way than before.

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How astronomers are using pulsars to observe evidence of dark matter

Tantalizing evidence of potential dark matter objects has been detected with the help of the Universe’s ‘timekeepers’. These pulsars — neutron stars which rotate and emit lighthouse-like beams of radio waves that rapidly sweep through space — were used to identify mysterious hidden masses. Pulsars earned their nickname because they send out electromagnetic radiation at

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Bizarre ‘garden sprinkler-like’ jet is spotted shooting out of neutron star

A strange ‘garden sprinkler-like’ jet coming from a neutron star has been pictured for the first time. The S-shaped structure is created as the jet changes direction due to the wobbling of the disc of hot gas around the star — a process called precession, which has been observed with black holes but, until now,

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JWST unveils stunning ejecta and CO structures in Cassiopeia A’s young supernova

Researchers announced the latest findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A (Cas A). These observations of the youngest known core collapse supernova in the Milky Way provide insights into the conditions that lead to the formation and destruction of molecules and dust within supernova ejecta. The study’s findings

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NASA’s Webb investigates eternal sunrises, sunsets on distant world

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have finally confirmed what models have previously predicted: An exoplanet has differences between its eternal morning and eternal evening atmosphere. WASP-39 b, a giant planet with a diameter 1.3 times greater than Jupiter, but similar mass to Saturn that orbits a star about 700 light-years away from Earth,

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Cosmic wrestling match

Our universe is around 13.8 billion years old. Over the vastness of this time, the tiniest of initial asymmetries have grown into the large-scale structures we can see through our telescopes in the night sky: galaxies like our own Milky Way, clusters of galaxies, and even larger aggregations of matter or filaments of gas and

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