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A jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy strikes the edge of another galaxy. This is the first time such an interaction has been found. The jet impacts the companion galaxy at its edge and is then disrupted and deflected, much like how a stream of water from a hose will […]

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Astronomers of SRON have discovered a new cluster of galaxies, hidden behind a previously identified cluster of galaxies. The recently exposed cosmic giant is apparently just as bright as the first group, but is six times further away. The astronomers made the discovery as part of an international team using the space telescope XMM-Newton. Being fooled […]

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USC professor’s sustainable design is the first of its kind: 10-meter span in Hunan province was assembled in days without heavy equipment and easily carries 8-ton vehicles.In China bamboo is used for furniture, artwork, building scaffolding, panels for concrete casting and now, truck bridges.
Yan Xiao, a professor at the University of Southern California Viterbi School […]

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Physicists of the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf investigated an unusual arrangement of three magnetic “swirls” - so called magnetic vortices - in a thin magnetic film. Their experiments performed at the Swiss Light Source (Switzerland) unravelled the dynamic core movements of these magnetic swirls for the first time.The 2007 physics Nobel Prize awarded achievements in the field […]

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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the first direct measurements of the infinitesimal expansion and collapse of thin polymer films used in the manufacture of advanced semiconductor devices. It’s a matter of only a couple of nanometers, but it can be enough to affect the performance of next-generation chip […]

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