Warwick astronomers calculate that some white dwarfs would look green, pink, cyan, yellow or purple, including what may be the first green star. The colors are computed from spectra, since no white dwarf is near enough to see.
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Astronomers re-reading 1999 Hubble spectra of white dwarf HS 0209+0832 found unusually high niobium that may trace matter the star shed as it died. The team proposes that some of that debris built a gas giant hinted at in TESS data, though the planet remains a candidate.
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Short-lived phases formed during heating yield a new form of bismuth vanadate
Chemists at Warwick and Birmingham watched precursors decompose under heat and found several unknown phases, including a new form of bismuth vanadate. Its band gap is significantly larger than that of the known forms, so its value for solar hydrogen has yet to be measured.
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Warwick-led astronomers tie niobium at over 1,000 times solar levels in a white dwarf to a candidate planet made from what the star shed as it died. If it holds up, it shows planets can still form after a star has died.
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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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A Warwick-led team imaged the interior of a 214 cuprate crystal at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and found two slightly different atomic arrangements. The boundaries between them are hundreds of times wider than expected.
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MIT-led astronomers say ZTF J0440+2325, 300 light-years away, is the first system seen where one low-mass object steadily feeds on another. Nobody has settled how long the feeding can last, and published estimates run from hundreds of thousands to billions of years.
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Warwick and MIT teams find two dwarf stars that appear to be eating their companions
Two Nature Astronomy studies report a red dwarf drawing material off a brown dwarf and a white dwarf apparently fed by a second-generation planet. Each rests on a single system, so together they show that such feeding happens and leave open how often it does.
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Warwick physicists propose phonons as a long-range link between germanium spin qubits
University of Warwick researchers propose phonons as a bus linking distant qubits on a germanium-on-silicon chip, in a June 15 APL Quantum paper. The links target the nearest-neighbour limit on error correction, and their claimed hardware savings over surface-acoustic-wave schemes are argued from the design without a measurement behind them yet.
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Young adults who recall warm, playful childhoods report more trust and well-being in three countries
University of Nottingham researchers tie remembered responsive care, free play and a warm home to adult well-being in the UK, US and Japan. Both ends of the link come from participants' own reports, so the study cannot yet separate how people were raised from how they remember it.
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White dwarf RXJ0528+2838 has driven a bow shock for at least 1,000 years without a disc
Astronomers find white dwarf RXJ0528+2838 has sustained a bow shock for at least 1,000 years with no disc to power it. Its strong magnetic field may account for part of that, and the team says an unexplained energy source may supply the rest.
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Disarmed, not killed: gladiolin flips Candida albicans back into harmless yeast
Monash and Warwick researchers report a bacterial antibiotic starves the invasive hyphal form of glucose, pointing antifungal discovery at virulence rather than viability.
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Body size and trees, not brains, best predict how many calls a primate makes
A new analysis of 77 primate species reports that brain size and group size fail to predict vocal repertoire size, putting pressure on the social brain account of language origins.
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