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Tree rings may contain traces of supernovae

[ad_1] Tree rings could detect supernovae traces near us. Supernovae are the final stage of stars before they “transform” into white dwarfs, neutron stars … If a star explodes in our immediate vicinity, all life on the planet would immediately disappear and the atmosphere would be lost. According to new …

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Blue plus blue and blacks more black? How science enhances colors

[ad_1] This story appears in the December 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was the bright, iridescent blue of the morpho butterfly that inspired Andrew Parnell and his colleagues. Impressed by the insect’s natural ability to produce vibrant hues, physicists and chemists began to study how they too could …

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A platform for fabricating 3-D nanosuperconductors with DNA

[ad_1] Three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructured materials – those with complex shapes on a dimensional scale of billionths of a meter – that can conduct electricity without resistance could be used in a range of quantum devices. For example, such 3-D superconducting nanostructures could find application in signal amplifiers to improve the …

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