Physics and Astronomy
This area deals with the fundamental laws and building blocks of nature and how they interact, the properties and the behavior of matter, and research into space and time and their structures.
innovations-report provides in-depth reports and articles on subjects such as astrophysics, laser technologies, nuclear, quantum, particle and solid-state physics, nanotechnologies, planetary research and findings (Mars, Venus) and developments related to the Hubble Telescope.
Amorphous diamond, a new super-hard form of carbon created under ultrahigh pressure
But what good is an amorphous diamond?”Sometimes amorphous forms of a material can have advantages over crystalline forms,” said Yu Lin, a Stanford graduate…
Dark Matter Mystery Deepens
Dark matter is invisible, betraying its presence only through its gravitational pull. Without dark matter holding them together, our galaxy's speedy stars…
UChicago Launches Search for Distant Worlds
“I can’t imagine a more profound impact on humanity than the discovery that there are other Earthlike worlds or that we are not alone,” said Rocky Kolb, the…
New light at the end of the tunnel
Who wants to decant liquids in the kitchen without spilling knows to value a funnel. Funnels are not only useful tools in the kitchen. Light can also be…
A Microscopic View on Quantum Fluctuations
Fluctuations are fundamental to many physical phenomena in our everyday life, such as the phase transitions from a liquid into a gas or from a solid into a…
Ambitious Hubble survey obtaining new dark matter census
The distorted shapes in the cluster are distant galaxies from which the light is bent by the gravitational pull of an invisible material called dark matter…