Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Hubble spots rare gravitational arc from distant, hefty galaxy cluster

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster of galaxies residing 10 billion…

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Unlocking Insights: Navigating Trillions of Electrons

Modern research tools like supercomputers, particle colliders, and telescopes are generating so much data, so quickly, many scientists fear that soon they will…

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Cassini Unveils Secrets of Saturn’s Jet Streams

In a new study appearing in the June edition of the journal Icarus, scientists used images collected over several years by NASA's Cassini spacecraft to…

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Scientists Twist Light for Advanced Data Transmission

A multi-national team led by USC with researchers hailing from the U.S., China, Pakistan and Israel has developed a system of transmitting data using twisted…

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Plasmonics: When silver is better than gold

Silver nanostructures exhibit a resonance feature that is useful for a multitude of sensing applications. Certain metallic nanostructures are known to exhibit…

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Asymmetry Insights: New Clue to Superconductivity Unveiled

Japanese and U.S. physicists are offering new details this week in the journal Nature regarding intriguing similarities between the quirky electronic…

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Graphene Production Made Easy: Breakthrough in Labs

Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, and the Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Lille…

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Discover Tin-100: A Stable Doubly Magic Nucleus

Stable tin, as we know it, comprises 112 nuclear particles – 50 protons and 632 neutrons. The neutrons act as a kind of buffer between the electrically…

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Graphene Breakthrough: Visualizing Light with Nanometric Precision

Spanish research groups achieve first ever visualizations of light guided with nanometric precision on graphene (a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms). This…

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Most Quasars Live on Snacks, Not Large Meals

Quasars are the brilliant beacons of light that are powered by black holes feasting on captured material, and in the process, heating some of the matter to…

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Perfecting Carbon Nanotube Growth: The Key to Innovation

At the right temperature, with the right catalyst, there's no reason a perfect single-walled carbon nanotube 50,000 times thinner than a human hair can't be…

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Helping superconductors turn up the heat

Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) are unveiling a novel theory for high-temperature superconductivity. The team hopes the new finding gives insight…

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New Solar Active Region Emits M-Class Flares and CMEs

The region fired off two M-class flares and two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on June 13 and June 14, 2012. The first flare lasted for a relatively long three…

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First Flight Instrument for James Webb Delivered to NASA

MIRI arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., May 29. It has been undergoing inspection before being integrated into Webb's science…

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Galaxies Align: A Cosmic Collision That Isn’t What It Seems

The two galaxies look as if they are colliding, but they are actually separated by tens of millions of light-years, or about ten times the distance between our…

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Stanford engineers perfecting carbon nanotubes for highly energy-efficient computing

Energy efficiency is the most significant challenge standing in the way of continued miniaturization of electronic systems, and miniaturization is the…

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