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The tidal disruption of a star by a black hole has been directly linked to quasiperiodic X-ray flares for the first time.
Scientists have observed for the first time a series of quasi-periodic soft X-ray flares from a supermassive black hole shortly…
Due to Chinese sanctions, the United States began developing transistors based on diamonds and aluminum nitride
Advanced power ICs and RF amplifiers use wide bandgap semiconductors such as gallium nitride (GaN). China controls the lion's share…
Nintendo unexpectedly introduced a new device – a persistent smart alarm clock for $99
The most hated device by the vast majority of the population of our planet is, undoubtedly, the alarm clock. It's…
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for a breakthrough in the study of proteins – AI would not have been possible
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry between David Baker of the University of…
How Mars died, revealed by new findings from the Curiosity rover
Scientists' ideas about life on Mars have changed dramatically in less than 100 years of studying it. The Red Planet…
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the fathers of neural networks and machine learning
A number of neural networks, machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence are based on profound discoveries in the field of…
Scientists have found the oldest twin galaxy of the Milky Way – it has broken ideas about the Universe
Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) using the ALMA radio telescope have made a surprising discovery that challenges our…
The Chinese have developed a “breathing” battery for Mars
Today, Mars technology uses lithium batteries. These are excellent sources of energy, but they are adversely affected by the extreme…
SpaceX launched the Hera interplanetary station to study the asteroid that NASA crashed with a satellite
Yesterday at 17:52 Moscow time, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Space Force station at Cape Canaveral, Florida,…
The Japanese tokamak JT-60SA set a record for the volume of retained plasma – 160 m³
The world's largest thermonuclear reactor, JT-60SA, created as part of a joint project between Japan and Europe, managed to achieve…