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.

Clay-armored bubbles may have formed first protocells

A team of applied physicists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of…

Engineers grow nanolasers on silicon, pave way for on-chip photonics

They describe their work in a paper to be published Feb. 6 in an advanced online issue of the journal Nature Photonics. “Our results impact a broad spectrum of…

First Stars in Universe Were Not Alone

The first stars in the universe were not as solitary as previously thought. In fact, they could have formed alongside numerous companions when the gas disks…

Surprise Hidden in Titan's Smog: Cirrus-Like Clouds

Icky as it may sound, Titan is really the rarest of gems: the only moon in our solar system with an atmosphere worthy of a planet. This atmosphere comes…

Extreme x-ray pulses create unique image of intact virus

But now an international research team has managed to capture an image of an intact virus and a membrane structure from a photosynthetic bacterium with the aid…

UF astronomers, NASA team find six closely packed planets orbiting same star

The NASA team, including UF associate professor Eric Ford, postdoctoral associate Althea Moorhead and graduate student Robert Morehead, will announce its…

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