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New research undertaken at Northumbria University shows that the Sun’s magnetic waves behave differently than…
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Astronomers using ALMA have detected various complex organic molecules around the young star V883 Ori.…
By bombarding an ultrathin semiconductor sandwich with powerful laser pulses, physicists at the University of…
Our Milky Way galaxy’s disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it…