Here are 10 of the coolest, weirdest and most unexpected findings about the Pluto system scientists have learned thanks to the New Horizons spacecraft’s flyby of the distant world in 2015. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/new-horizons-flyby-10-cool-things-about-pluto…
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Tiny bubbles make a quantum leap
July 13, 2020—Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Montana State University report today that they have found that placing sufficient strain in a 2-D material—tungsten diselenide (WSe2)—creates localized states that can yield single-photon emitters. Using sophisticated optical microscopy techniques developed at Columbia over the past three years, the team was able to directly image these states for the first time, revealing that…
Soap bubbles can split light into otherworldly branching streams
When a laser beam shines through a membrane made of simple household soap, it branches in a strange and unexpected way that could help us understand the cosmos Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2247500-soap-bubbles-can-split-light-into-otherworldly-branching-streams/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
How to create a low-risk quarantine bubble
People are turning to quarantine bubbles as a way to see friends and family while limiting the risk from the coronavirus. Research shows that this can work, but it’s not easy to be in a quaranteam. Source: https://www.livescience.com/quarantine-bubble-explained.html
Scientists Find Way To Pollinate Plants With Soap Bubbles As Bees Decline
Researchers have found that soap bubbles can carry pollen grains and deposit them on flowers. CNET reports: “It sounds somewhat like fantasy, but the functional soap bubble allows effective pollination and assures that the quality of fruits is the same as with conventional hand pollination,” said Eijiro Miyako, associate professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and lead…
Soap bubbles covered in pollen could help fertilise flowers
As bee populations continue to decline, researchers are looking for alternative ways to fertilise flowers. One suggestion is using soap bubbles to deliver pollen Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2246235-soap-bubbles-covered-in-pollen-could-help-fertilise-flowers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Covid-19: Social ‘bubbles’ unlikely to be allowed soon in the UK
Social “bubbles” that would allow small groups of family or friends to have close contact indoors during the covid-19 crisis look unlikely to begin any time soon in the UK, judging from new minutes of government meetings and modelling by researchers Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2245232-covid-19-social-bubbles-unlikely-to-be-allowed-soon-in-the-uk/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
First optical measurements of Milky Way’s Fermi Bubbles probe their origin
Using the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper telescope, astronomers have for the first time measured the Fermi Bubbles in the visible light spectrum. The Fermi Bubbles are two enormous outflows of high-energy gas that emanate from the Milky Way and the finding refines our understanding of the properties of these mysterious blobs. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-06-optical-milky-fermi-probe.html…
Mysterious ‘Fermi Bubbles’ may be the result of black hole indigestion 6 million years ago
Twin shock waves produced by the galaxy’s central black hole could have inflated the gargantuan Fermi Bubbles about 6 million years ago, a new study suggests. Source: https://www.livescience.com/fermi-bubbles-black-hole-shock-wave.html
Researchers reveal common origin of Fermi bubbles and galactic center X-ray outflows
A pair of gigantic gamma-ray bubbles centered on the core of the Milky Way galaxy were discovered by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope 10 years ago. But how these so-called “Fermi bubbles” arose was a mystery. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-05-reveal-common-fermi-galactic-center.html…