BEIJING, March 1 – Excessive fossil fuel consumption in recent decades has worsened environmental problems such as the greenhouse effect, driving urgency for technologies that capture and utilize carbon dioxide. One promising approach is the…
HKU Researcher and Collaborators Detect First “Heartbeat” of…
A discovery involving researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has, for the first time, unveiled millisecond pulsations hidden within a powerful cosmic explosion known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB). A collaboration among HKU,…
Shape-shifting collisions probe secrets of early Universe
The first high-energy collisions between light nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider confirm the unusual “bowling-pin” shape of neon nuclei and offer up a new tool to study the extreme state of matter produced in…
NASA Awards Blue Origin $190 Million Contract to…
NASA WASHINGTON — As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin a Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) task order valued at up to $190 million, with an option to deliver the VIPER…
The self-taught seismologist: Monitoring earthquakes from optic fibers…
Seismology is undergoing significant change with the rise of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), a fast-growing technology that leverages existing fiber-optic cables—including those used for the Internet—into ultra-dense seismic networks with meter-scale sensor spacing. DAS provides…