Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Sun Exposure Risks: Understanding the Triplet Threat

The most obvious effects of too much sun exposure are cosmetic, like wrinkled and rough skin. Some damage, however, goes deeper—ultraviolet light can damage…

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Molecular Magnets Unite for Future Information Technology

On the quest for novel solutions for future information technology, scientists from the University of Hamburg and the Forschungszentrum Jülich managed to…

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Magnetic White Dwarfs: Unraveling Their Age Mystery

An international group of astronomers including a scientist from the University of Göttingen has found an explanation of the long-standing mystery of why…

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Hubble Discovers Distant Galaxy Using Cosmic Magnifying Glass

This new detection is considered one of the most reliable distance measurements of a galaxy that existed in the early universe, said the Hubble researchers….

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Superconducting Circuits: Boosting Energy Efficiency in Chips

Computer chips with superconducting circuits — circuits with zero electrical resistance — would be 50 to 100 times as energy-efficient as today's chips, an…

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Cosmic Jets of Young Stars: Magnetic Fields Explained

Now, for the first time ever, an international team of researchers has successfully tested a new model that explains how magnetic fields form these emissions…

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Explosion of a Low-Mass Helium Star in a Binary — First Evidence of a Hydrogen-deficient Supernova Progenitor

Their model predicts that a bright hot star, which is the binary companion to an exploding object, remains after the explosion. To verify their theory, the…

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NASA Spacecraft Provides New Information About Sun’s Atmosphere

The new information will help researchers better understand how our nearest star transfers energy through its atmosphere and track the dynamic solar activity…

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NASA’s Hubble Finds Extremely Distant Galaxy through Cosmic Magnifying Glass

This galaxy offers a peek back to the very early formative years of the universe and may just be the tip of the iceberg.

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Engineers Improve Laser Performance by Managing Loss

To help laser systems overcome loss, operators often pump the system with an overabundance of photons, or light packets, to achieve optical gain. But now…

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NASA's Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission

The KBOs were detected through a dedicated Hubble observing program by a New Horizons search team that was awarded telescope time for this purpose.

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Tiny "Nanoflares" Might Heat the Sun's Corona

This question has baffled astronomers for decades. Today, a team led by Paola Testa of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is…

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Young Stars’ Jets: New Insights from Experiments and Simulations

Using a patented experimental device and large-scale numerical simulations, the team obtained data consistent with astrophysical observations.

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Exploring Super-Earths: A New Frontier in Astronomy

For as long as astronomers have been looking to the skies, we have had just one planetary system—our own—to study in depth. That means we have only…

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Milky Way Strips Dwarf Galaxies of Star-Forming Gas

These new radio observations, which are the highest sensitivity of their kind ever undertaken, reveal that within a well-defined boundary around our Galaxy,…

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New Light on The "Split Peak" of Alcohols

For scientists probing the electronic structure of materials using a relatively new technique called resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering (RIXS) in the…

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