Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Dust Disks Endure Intense UV Radiation Near Young Stars

Because these young clusters contain very hot stars that generate energetic, intense Ultraviolet radiation, such dust disks, the sites of planet formation…

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Venus Radar Insights: GBT’s Breakthrough Observations

Recently, by combining the highly sensitive receiving capabilities of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and the powerful radar…

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Unlocking Neutron Stars: Insights from Gravitational Waves

Gravitational waves are generated when masses accelerate. The first indirect evidence for their existence was detected in 1974 when the binary pulsar PSR…

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Rapid Changes in Lovejoy Comet’s Tail Observed

A team of astronomy researchers from Stony Brook University, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and Tsuru University are the first to reveal clear…

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Rare Dwarf Satellite Galaxies Discovered in Dark Energy Survey

Dwarf galaxies are the smallest known galaxies, and they could hold the key to understanding dark matter, and the process by which larger galaxies form.

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Exploring Africa from Space: Insights from CATS Instrument

The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System instrument (CATS), was launched Jan. 10 aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, and was installed on the International Space…

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Alloys in Action: Transforming Liquids to Solids for Better Metals

A series of experiments conducted in the Directional Solidification Insert (DSI) of the Device for the study of Critical Liquids and Crystallization (DECLIC)…

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Astronomers Capture Four Views of Distant Exploding Star

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have, for the first time, spotted four images of a distant exploding star. The images are arranged in a…

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The world’s smallest resistances

Scientists from the Universities of Göttingen and Erlangen have made an important step towards a deeper understanding of smallest resistances. Using a scanning…

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Exploring Black Holes and Dark Matter Through Quantum Gravity

Questions such as how do we reconcile GR and Quantum Theory? What is Dark Matter? And what is Dark Energy? These are what keep most physicists awake late at…

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3-D Imaging Uncovers Hidden Forces in Natural Disasters

An international team of researchers collaborating at Duke University have developed a new way to measure the forces inside materials such as sand, soil or…

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“Planck” Puts Einstein to the Test

Researchers, including physicists from Heidelberg University, have gained new insights into dark energy and the theory of gravitation by analysing data from…

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3-D Image of Giant Virus Unveiled with X-Ray Laser

For the first time, researchers have produced a 3-D image revealing part of the inner structure of an intact, infectious virus, using a unique X-ray laser at…

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3-D Printed Parts Offer Affordable, Custom Lab Equipment Solutions

“The printer is now a crucial piece of our laboratory and used regularly,” said Andrew Zwicker, the head of Science Education at PPPL and lead author of a…

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Flower-Like Magnetic Nanoparticles Target Tough Tumors

Thanks to the work of an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Dartmouth Center of Nanotechnology Excellence, funded by the National Institutes of…

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Float Like a Mosquito, Sting Like a…Mosquito

Small semi-aqueous arthropods, such as mosquitoes and water striders, are free to go about their waterborne business thanks to their unique leg-based…

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