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Q&A: Reevaluating reaction rates to better understand the stars
- Mar 16, 2026
Thermonuclear reaction rates power the models that explain how stars live, explode and create the elements. A new study co-authored by NC State facult...
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Life, but not as we know it
- Mar 16, 2026
Here is a problem that has been quietly gnawing at astronomers for decades. The standard approach to detecting life on other worlds involves scanning...
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A clear roadmap for engineering combs of light
- Mar 16, 2026
Optical frequency combs—laser sources that emit evenly spaced colors of light—are foundational, ubiquitous tools for precision measurement, found in o...
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JWST maps Europa's CO₂ beyond Tara Regio, hinting at subsurface exchange
- Mar 16, 2026
Europa is not supposed to look the way it does. Jupiter's icy moon is scarred by a chaotic patchwork of fractured terrain, crisscrossed ridges, and di...
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A galaxy next door is transforming, and astronomers can see it happening
- Mar 16, 2026
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the naked eye from the south...
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Climate action could prevent over 13 million premature deaths, but equity choices matter for global health
- Mar 16, 2026
A new study published in The Lancet Global Health reveals a previously underappreciated tension at the heart of international climate negotiations: po...
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Laser-assisted electron scattering seen with circularly polarized light for the first time
- Mar 16, 2026
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have succeeded in detecting laser-assisted electron scattering (LAES) using circularly polarized light...
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What you study in school shapes your voting choices in adulthood
- Mar 16, 2026
Across Europe, education has become one of the biggest dividing lines in politics, and educational qualifications are now one of the best predictors o...
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Microbes in Antarctica survive the freezing and dark winter by living on air
- Mar 16, 2026
Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and does not rise above the hori...
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Light-controlled hydrogel mimics soft human tissue for more realistic cell studies
- Mar 16, 2026
For decades, lab-grown cells have been studied in materials that don't reflect the softness and flexibility of human tissue. Now researchers at the Un...
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Gold nanoclusters could selectively recognize chiral biomolecules to help detect certain diseases
- Mar 16, 2026
An extensive computational study by researchers from Finland's University of Jyväskylä predicts that gold nanoclusters could selectively recognize chi...
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Not just spin—electron orbitals can provide new method for controlling magnetism
- Mar 16, 2026
Research is actively underway to develop a "dream memory" that can reduce heat generation in smartphones and laptops while delivering faster performan...