Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Discover NGC 4889: The Giant Galaxy in the Coma Cluster

Located about 300 million light-years away in the Coma Cluster, the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4889, the brightest and largest galaxy in this image, is home…

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Gravitational Waves Detected: LZH’s Laser System Breakthrough

The resulting gravitational wave was measured already in September 2015; yesterday, the evaluation of the data was published in the Physical Review Letters and…

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LIGO confirms RIT's breakthrough prediction of gravitational waves

Research conducted by Rochester Institute of Technology scientists was integral to the breakthrough detection of gravitational waves from binary black holes…

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New Strategies for Generating Ultracold Molecules

The study of ultracold molecules is a science of its own. Ultracold molecules provide the possibility to investigate fundamental chemical processes or to…

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Scientists Capture Nanoparticle Snapshots for New Insights

An international team of researchers led by X-ray scientist Christoph Bostedt of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Tais…

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Key Role of Boundary Layer Velocity in Surface Flow Phenomena

The study has been published in the respected academic journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America).

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Exploring Innovations at APEX Telescope’s Cold Universe Celebration

On the occasion of this anniversary, a celebration was held at the APEX base station in Sequitor, San Pedro de Atacama, including a visit to the APEX telescope…

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Soundless Spirals: New Design Absorbs Acoustics Efficiently

Researchers at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS, and the University of Lorraine have recently developed a design for a coiled-up…

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Measuring Quantum States of Molecules Live and Non-Destructively

The quantum state of a molecular ion has been measured live and in a non-destructive fashion for the first time

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Superconductivity Breakthrough: Footballs with No Resistance

Superconductors have long been confined to niche applications, due to the fact that the highest temperature at which even the best of these materials becomes…

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Tiniest Particles Shrink Before Exploding When Hit With SLAC's X-ray Laser

Researchers assumed that tiny objects would instantly blow up when hit by extremely intense light from the world's most powerful X-ray laser at the Department…

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New All-in-One Quantum State: Gas, Liquid, and Crystal

The world of quantum mechanics happens only in small scales around a few nanometers. In this nanoworld, particles can behave like waves, and vice versa and…

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Unveiling Unconventional Superconductivity Near Absolute Zero

Researchers at the Goethe University have discovered an important mechanism for superconductivity in a metallic compound containing ytterbium, rhodium and…

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New Nanowires Created Using Natural Gas Heating Technique

A team of Korean researchers, affiliated with UNIST has recently pioneered in developing a new simple nanowire manufacturing technique that uses self-catalytic…

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NASA’s Insight Into the Sun’s Magnetic Dynamics Explained

Once this dynamic system was spotted, the next step was to understand what caused it. For this, scientists have turned to a combination of real time…

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Exploring Polar Vortices in Ferroelectric Materials

The observation in a ferroelectric material of “polar vortices” that appear to be the electrical cousins of magnetic skyrmions holds intriguing possibilities…

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