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Austrian public research institute near Vienna, founded in 2009, for basic research and doctoral training in the sciences, mathematics and computer science.
Gemini North imaging shows the streaks of Pa 30, the probable remnant of the 1181 supernova, are knots of gas strung like pearls. Because it is the Milky Way's only known Type Iax remnant, astronomers plan to use its features to look for more like it.
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Gemini North images show the streaks of Pa 30, left by the 1181 'zombie' supernova, are chains of gas knots that could each hold Neptune's orbit 10 times. The knots look close to uniform in size, so models of rare Type Iax explosions now have a specific pattern to reproduce, and the team has yet to try.
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ISTA chemists report a light-activated nickel catalyst that made more than 150 products while using substantially less nickel. The design widens what nickel can build as a stand-in for scarce, costly palladium in the bond-forming reactions behind many drugs.
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Centuries of study have not settled what actually transfers when objects rub. The experiments now trying to find out need acoustically levitated glass beads and hands-free collisions.
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A Nature study reports that mouse organoids make cortical cell types but not the clock that sequences them, and that a third of progenitors get locked into a single fate.
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