Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

NASA Detects Massive Solar Flares Impacting Earth

The first is traveling faster than 1300 miles per second; the second more than 1100 miles per second. NASA's models predict that the CMEs will impact both…

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Higgs Boson: A Step Closer to Proving Its Existence

The Higgs boson is a hypothetical particle thought responsible for giving mass to matter, a critical but still unproven component of the long-standing Standard…

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LHCb Experiment Squeezes the Space for Expected New Physics

LHCb tests the Standard Model by measuring extremely rare processes, in this case a decay pattern predicted to happen just three times out of every billion…

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Hercules Galaxy Cluster: Exploring Cosmic Wonders Up Close

The Hercules galaxy cluster (also known as Abell 2151) lies about 500 million light-years away in the constellation of Hercules. It is unlike other nearby…

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Texas A&M astronomers help find distant galaxy cluster to shed light on early universe

Last June that investment paid off when an international collaboration featuring Texas A&M astronomers Dr. Kim-Vy Tran and Dr. Casey Papovich gathered at…

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Advancing MRAM: HZB Researchers Unveil Novel Innovation

In close collaboration with colleagues from Bochum and the Netherlands, researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have developed a novel,…

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Hidden Galaxy Cluster Discovered 10.5 Billion Light Years Away

The galaxy cluster is located 10.5 billion light years away in the direction of the constellation Leo. It is made up of 30 galaxies packed closely together,…

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The worldfs fastest Y-00 stream cipher transmission at 40 Gbit/sec over 120 km

Y-00 is a physical cipher that has a possibility to avoid the decipher and hence it is a promising candidate to realize secure networks. The key to success of…

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Study jointly led by UCSB researcher supports theory of extraterrestrial impact

The sediment layer contains an exotic assemblage of materials, including nanodiamonds, impact spherules, and more, which, according to the researchers, are the…

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Bio-Inspired Microlens Arrays: Simple Components, Big Impact

The development of highly complex microlens arrays via the natural way and with remarkably simple components: Chemists of the University of Konstanz and the…

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Dark Matter Core Defies Explanation in NASA Hubble Image

Abell 520 is a gigantic merger of galaxy clusters located 2.4 billion light-years away. Dark matter is not visible, although its presence and distribution is…

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Quantum Particles: Unraveling Transport Properties for Innovation

Transport properties such as thermal or electrical conductivity are of great importance for technical applications of materials. In particular the electrical…

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Exploring Phobos’ Gravitational Field: New Working Models

Many fundamental properties of this small potato-shaped body stay vague, for example, its gravitational field. SHI Xian and coauthors from Shanghai…

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Exploring Quantum Entanglement: Two Crystals Linked by Physics

For almost fifteen years Professor Nicolas Gisin and his physicist collaborators have been entangling photons. If this exercise seems to them perhaps…

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The Search for the First Stars

The Kavli Foundation spoke with three prominent researchers about this and other exciting findings that are moving scientists closer to understanding how the…

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Mysterious Electron Acceleration Explained by New Simulation

A mysterious phenomenon detected by space probes has finally been explained, thanks to a massive computer simulation that was able to precisely align with…

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