A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the Solar System planets interior. The ...
In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...
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The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...
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