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New ultrathin lens focuses light into an optical needle

Researchers have created a special flat lens that shapes light into an optical needle—a thin beam that stays tightly focused over a long distance.

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Science • Jul 07

Galaxy Mergers Aren't Always Obvious

Mergers are a part of a galaxy's life in this Universe. Though clear signs of these mergers fade over hundreds of millions of years, evidence is still...

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Science • Jul 07

'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by buil...

By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.

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Science • Jul 07

'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab

By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.

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Science • Jul 07

China releases 1st photo of Earth's elusive 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa

China's Tianwen-2 probe beamed home a photo of its target, asteroid 2016HO3, also known as quasi-moon Kamo'oalewa.

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Science • Jul 07

Dragonflies maneuver like fighter pilots

Male dragonflies' dramatic aerial combat maneuvers emerge from relatively simple vision-based rules.

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Science • Jul 07

Researchers Argue Saturn's Moon Titan Is Perfect for Human Exploration

Boulder, Colorado, recently hosted the first-ever scientific convention specifically focused on the idea of setting human beings down on Titan,...

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Science • Jul 07

Researchers Argue Saturn's Moon Titan Is Perfect for Human Exploration

Boulder, Colorado, recently hosted the first-ever scientific convention specifically focused on the idea of setting human beings down on Titan,...

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Science • Jul 07

Self-generated hydrogel ejects bacterial cells for localized biofilm dispersion

Bacteria residing in biofilms are embedded in an extracellular matrix. Whereas biofilm formation is well studied, less is known about biofilm dispersion,...

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Science • Jul 07

Euclid telescope discovers the 2 most ancient monster black holes in the universe — each brighter than a trillion suns

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid space telescope has spotted 31 previously unknown quasars dating to the universe's earliest chapter, including the...

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Science • Jul 07

SpaceX launches Transporter-17 amid concerns about rideshare program’s future

TOKYO — SpaceX launched the latest in its Transporter series of rideshare missions July 7 as industry concerns about the program's future reach what one...

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Science • Jul 07

Japan has more than 33,000 businesses over 100 years old and roughly 3,000 over 200 years old — the highest concentration of ancient family businesses on earth — including a hotel called Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan that has been run by the same family s

A hot spring at the foot of the Akaishi Mountains in Yamanashi Prefecture has been feeding the same bathhouse since the year 705. Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan,

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Science • Jul 07

Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen stepping down from Canadian Space Agency

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who became the first non-American to fly around the moon on NASA's Artemis II mission, announced he is stepping down from...

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Science • Jul 07

Cosmic Conjoined Twins, Caught on Camera

A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that somehow fused together.

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Science • Jul 07

Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen stepping down from full-time role

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen announced Monday that he is stepping down from his full-time role as an astronaut, months after flying around the moon on...

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Science • Jul 07

Evidence of elusive high-energy gravitons in quantum Hall systems

Electrons, negatively charged particles, sometimes coordinate their movements in ways that produce certain collective excitations referred to as...

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Science • Jul 07

Hayabusa 2 Completes Flyby Past Asteroid Torifune

Explore the universe with Sky & Telescope - your ultimate source for stargazing, celestial events, and the latest astronomy news.

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Science • Jul 07

I quit my job to travel with my dad. He died 10 days later.

One year ago, I left my job to travel with my father. Neither of us had taken a vacation in years; he was a widower living alone, and I was a journalist who...

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Science • Jul 07

Metallic rutile oxides break the rules of cooling

Physicists have long puzzled over a strange contradiction inside a family of minerals called rutile oxides. These materials all share the same crystal...

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