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.
Just Four Percent of Galaxies Have Neighbors Like the Milky Way
How unique is the Milky Way?To find out, a group of researchers led by Stanford University astrophysicist Risa Wechsler compared the Milky Way to similar…
How to Learn a Star's True Age
“A star's rotation slows down steadily with time, like a top spinning on a table, and can be used as a clock to determine its age,” says astronomer Soren…
Kepler's Astounding Haul of Multiple-Planet Systems
In particular, the Kepler systems with multiple planets are much flatter than our solar system. They have to be for Kepler to spot them. Kepler watches for a…
Feuding helium dwarfs exposed by eclipse
We know of just over 50 close double white dwarfs but this was only the second ever eclipsing close white dwarf pair to be found. The University of Warwick…
Hubble Views the Star That Changed the Universe
The star goes by the inauspicious name of Hubble variable number one, or V1, and resides in the outer regions of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, or M31. But…
Novel man-made material could facilitate wireless power
This advance is made possible by the recent ability to fabricate exotic composite materials known as metamaterials, which are not so much a single substance,…