“Controlling and manipulating heat for applications such as waste heat energy harvesting, integrated cooling technologies, electron emission, and related…
With the first explosions of atomic bombs, the world became witness to one of the most important and consequential principles in physics: Energy and mass,…
At a time when communication networks are scrambling for ways to transmit more data over limited bandwidth, a type of twisted light wave is gaining new…
Using a combination of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), the world's…
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is a wondrous place full of huge star clusters, dust clouds, magnetic filaments and a supermassive black hole. But it can be…
The discovery by astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Clarion University in Pennsylvania of six likely comets around distant stars…
A new analysis of Kepler data shows that about 17 percent of stars have an Earth-sized planet in an orbit closer than Mercury. Since the Milky Way has about…
An international team of astrophysicists has shown that planetary systems with very distant binary stars are particularly susceptible to violent disruptions,…
Added to the 19 similar planets already discovered in habitable zones, where the temperature is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water, the new finds…
The peculiar properties of magnets have found their way into a vast number of technologies ranging from information technology to medical imaging. In terms of…
“That's not what I meant”: human communication is fraught with misinterpretation. Written out in longhand, words and letters can be misread. A telegraph clerk…
Unlike the Sun, many stars are members of binary star systems – where two stars orbit one another – and these stars' planetary systems can be altered by the…
Researchers at the University of Luxembourg were able to accurately calculate for the first time the amount of salt which is required to do this. Z-DNA in the…
“This new achievement augurs well for the next LHC run starting in 2015,” said CERN’s Director for Accelerators and Technology, Steve Myers, “High intensity…
Ten countries now involved in the pre-construction phase of the world’s largest telescope.The Board of Directors of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)…
Now, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have come up with a theory for moving this phenomenon onto the quantum scale, laying out blueprints for…
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