Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Study shows how water could have flowed on 'cold and icy' ancient Mars

A recent study led by Brown University geologists offers a potential bridge between the “warm and wet” story told by Martian geology and the “cold and icy”…

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Space radiation won't stop NASA's human exploration

“Some people think that radiation will keep NASA from sending people to Mars, but that's not the current situation,” said, Pat Troutman, NASA Human Exploration…

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‘Find the Lady’ in the quantum world

Imagine that you are playing the game of ‘Find the Lady’ – in fact, a very simple version of it: The croupier is no hardened con artist, but rather a…

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Scientists Confirm Heavy Elements from Neutron Star Mergers

On October 16 a team of scientists, including members from the LIGO and Virgo collaborations and several astronomical groups, announced the detection of both…

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Exploring Knots in the Early Universe: A New Dimensional Theory

An international team of physicists has developed an out-of-the-box theory which proposes that shortly after it popped into existence 13.8 billion years ago…

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First Light from Neutron Star Merger: A New Era in Astronomy

Previous detections of gravitational waves have all involved the merger of two black holes, a feat that won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics earlier this month….

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First Direct Observation of Neutron Star Merger

On August 17, 2017, at 12:41:04 UTC, scientists made the first direct observation of a merger between two neutron stars–the dense, collapsed cores that remain…

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PPPL Unveils 2-D Turbulence Structure Insights in Tokamaks

At the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), scientists have assembled a large database of detailed measurements of the…

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Predicting the Solar Eclipse: NASA Data Unveils Insights

Predictive Science, Inc., San Diego, Calif. — a private computational physics research company supported by NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Air…

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Exploring Solar Spicules and Alfvenic Waves Dynamics

At any given moment, as many as 10 million wild snakes of solar material leap from the sun's surface. These are spicules, and despite their abundance,…

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Single Photon Uncovers Quantum Entanglement of 16 Million Atoms

Quantum theory is unequivocal: it predicts that a vast number of atoms can be entangled and intertwined by a very strong quantum relationship even in a…

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Exploring Distance Measurements in the Milky Way’s Structure

Distance measurements are crucial for an understanding of the structure of the Milky Way. Most of our Galaxy's material, consisting principally of stars, gas,…

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First Light for PEPSI Polarimeters at LBT

Developed at the Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam, Germany, the Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric and Spectroscopic Instrument (PEPSI) saw first light…

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Cold Molecules: Unraveling Reactions at Low Temperatures

How do chemical reactions proceed at extremely low temperatures? The answer requires the investigation of molecular samples that are cold, dense, and slow at…

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Over 600 New Periodic Orbits Uncovered in Three-Body Problem

Poincare in 1890 revealed that trajectories of three-body systems are commonly non-periodic, i.e. not repeating. This can explain why it is so hard to gain…

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Electrons Transform 2-D Structures Into New Atomic Patterns

The same electrostatic charge that can make hair stand on end and attach balloons to clothing could be an efficient way to drive atomically thin electronic…

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