By comparing the measurements to a known spectrum of relaxation times, medical professionals can determine whether the imaged tissue is muscle, bone, or even a…
These “lensing” galaxies are so massive that their gravity bends, magnifies, and distorts light from objects behind it, a phenomenon called gravitational…
This result challenges the prevailing explosion model for type Ia supernovae, indicating that such energetic events might be ignited from the outside as well…
It takes only a slight disturbance for a pencil standing on its tip to fall in one direction or another. In the quantum world it is possible in principle for…
One of the famous examples of the weirdness of quantum mechanics is the paradox of Schrödinger's cat.
As a quantum state collapses from a quantum superposition to a classical state or a different superposition, it will follow a path known as a quantum…
Contingent on that decision, the TMT International Observatory (TIO) Board of Directors, the project's new governing body, recently approved the initial phase…
The team, led by Principal Investigator Harvey Moseley, a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has demonstrated that…
New findings from a NASA-funded instrument have resolved a decades-old puzzle about a fog of low-energy X-rays observed over the entire sky. Thanks to…
Does the Milky Way look fat in this picture? Has Andromeda been taking skinny selfies? It turns out the way some astrophysicists have been studying our galaxy…
Over the vast, empty reaches of interstellar space, countless small molecules tumble quietly though the cold vacuum. Forged in the fusion furnaces of ancient…
The Cheshire Cat featured in Lewis Caroll's novel “Alice in Wonderland” is a remarkable creature: it disappears, leaving its grin behind. Can an object be…
The research, published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is a collaboration between theoretical physicists led by Dirk Morr,…
Data transmission over long distances usually utilizes optical techniques via glass fibres – this ensures high speed transmission combined with low power…
Rubber duckie has a collar! At least this is what the surface structures of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko look like in new images of taken by Rosetta’s…
The three planets, known as HD 189733b, HD 209458b, and WASP-12b, are between 60 and 900 light-years away from Earth and were thought to be ideal candidates…
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