Cars inch forward slowly in traffic jams, but molecules, when jammed up, can move extremely fast.New research by Northwestern University researchers finds that…
The work seeks to clarify what Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers witnessed when in 2013 they named a mysterious phenomenon — an unusual…
The planet, designated Kepler-413b, is located 2,300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. It circles a close pair of orange and red dwarf stars every…
By making exquisitely precise measurements astronomers have found that different parts of the asteroid Itokawa have different densities. As well as revealing…
esearchers have analyzed carbon-rich meteorites (carbonaceous chondrites) and found amino acids, which are used to make proteins. Proteins are among the most…
Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg are working on a heat engine that consists of just a single…
Published in the journal Optics Letters, the researchers from the University’s Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing and the School of Chemistry and…
Scientists and engineers from an international collaboration led by Dr Mark Thompson from the University of Bristol have, for the first time, generated and…
However, the true history of the solar system is more riotous. Giant planets migrated in and out, tossing interplanetary flotsam and jetsam far and wide. New…
In the 1980s, scientists' view of the solar system's asteroids was essentially static: Asteroids that formed near the sun remained near the sun; those that…
“We knew that the fuel for star formation had to come from somewhere. So far, however, we’ve detected only about 10 percent of what would be necessary to…
Their work, published in Physical Review Letters, examines the role of chemical dopants, which are essential to creating high-temperature superconductors –…
Young massive stars, which have more than 10 times the mass of the Sun, shine brightly in the ultraviolet, heating the gas around them, and it has long been a…
The blast, designated SN 2014J, occurred in the galaxy M82 and lies only about 12 million light-years away. This makes it the nearest optical supernova in two…
An article entitled “Geologic characteristics of the Chang'E-3 exploration region”was published online for SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy on…
How would electrons behave if confined to a wire so slender they could pass through it only in single-file?The question has intrigued scientists for more than…
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