Physics
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More than just motors
With an extensive and diversified product portfolio, Brazilian-based WEG supplied electromagnets for the Sirius synchrotron light project in Brazil
Cosmology
Visibility limit
International radio telescope array produces the first image of a black hole
physics
A picture of sound
Image shows the interaction between shock waves generated by two fighter jets as they pass the speed of sound at about 1,230 kilometers per hour
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Physics
Physicist receives Brazil’s highest science and technology award
Vanderlei Bagnato, from the São Carlos Physics Institute (IFSC) at the University of São Paulo, is the 2019 winner of the Almirante Álvaro Alberto Award
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Astronomy
Organization established to build the world’s largest radio telescope
After three and a half years of negotiation, representatives from seven countries came together to sign a treaty establishing the intergovernmental organization that will oversee construction of the world's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometer Array
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Physico-chemistry
Hidden strokes of Portinari
Tests show how the artist produced his artwork and may be useful in confirming the painter of a piece found in his former home
Nanotechnology
Sensor detects bacteria in food
Brazilian researchers have developed a biosensor capable of quickly identifying bacteria in food and drink
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Chang'e 4
China lands probe on dark side of the Moon
China has become the first country to land a probe on the far side of the Moon
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Astronomy
Telescope measures almost all the starlight ever produced in the universe
Based on data collected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, an international group of astrophysicists has been able to measure almost all of the starlight produced since the universe was formed about 13.7 billion years ago
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Nobel Prize in Physics
Richard Feynman’s medal sold at auction
The medal was just one of the items up for sale in Sotheby's History of Science and Technology auction
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Physics
First Sirius beamlines expected to begin operating by the end of 2019
The electron beam is expected to start circulating in the second half of 2019 and the six initial experimental stations, called beamlines
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Physics
New standard approved for measuring a kilogram
The kilogram will now be measured using the Planck constant
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Photolab
Magnetic circles
LED light strips, a cylindrical magnet, and a thin film of ferrofluid is the recipe for the diffraction effect in which the colored lights form circles
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Nobel Prize 2018 | Physics
More powerful lasers and optical tweezers
In physics, Nobel acknowledged the work of two researchers who created a way of producing more powerful laser sources, and a third scientist who expanded their use to investigate phenomena on the scale of cells and atomic particles
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Physics
Higgs, a well-behaved boson
Physicists have been investigating how the Higgs boson particle interacts with others
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Physics
Vibrations created by light in mirrors
An international group of researchers accurately isolated and measured the vibrations generated when a beam of light touches the surface of a mirror and is reflected back
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Video
The eclipse which revolutionized physics
This Wednesday, May 29th, celebrates 100 years of the eclipse which was the first experimental proof of the Theory of General Relativity | 2'36"
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