Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Aluminum Alloy Advances Hydrogen Fuel Source Research

Now, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., has made the counterintuitive discovery…

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New Discoveries Bring Us Closer to Understanding Dark Matter

The universe is still a mystery. We know what about 5 percent of the universe consists of. The rest is simply unknown. Researchers have gotten as far as…

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Exploring Liquid Shapes: Granular Towers and Invisibility Cloaks

The various shapes are in contrast with the liquid drops which can splash, spread or bounce upon hitting a surface. Successive drops freeze rapidly upon impact…

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Galaxy Collision Rate Revealed: Insights on Evolution

The galaxy merger rate is one of the fundamental measures of galaxy evolution, yielding clues to how galaxies bulked up over time through encounters with other…

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Graphene Growth Enhanced by Specific Copper Crystal Structures

By combining data from several imaging techniques, the team found that the quality of graphene depends on the crystal structure of the copper substrate it…

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New Concept for Ultrafast Lasers Developed by RUB Scientists

Electrical engineers in Bochum have succeeded in developing a new concept for ultrafast semiconductor lasers. The researchers make clever use of the intrinsic…

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Unbalancing Nothingness: Insights from Top Physicists

Nothingness – this is the research subject-matter of a team of theoretical physicists from the Universities Jena (Germany) and Graz (Austria). “The ground…

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Advancing Optical Info Transfer with Single Photons

A research team at the University of Alberta wants to refine the optical transmission of information by using a single photon, the fundamental building block…

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Cornell Reaches Two Milestones Toward a New Coherent X-ray Source

For more than a decade, Cornell scientists have been conducting research and development for an Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) electron accelerator that would…

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Media Webcast on Discoveries in Acoustics

The briefing will cover select topics being presented at the 162nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in San Diego, Calif., October 31–November…

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Future 'comb on a chip': NIST's compact frequency comb could go places

While typical lasers operate at only a single or handful of frequencies, laser frequency combs operate simultaneously at many frequencies, approaching a…

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Faraway Eris is Pluto's Twin

Astronomers have accurately measured the diameter of the faraway dwarf planet Eris for the first time by catching it as it passed in front of a faint star….

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Physicists Unveil New Kind of Superconductivity

In three recent papers, the authors report on their detailed investigations to show that a Type 1.5 superconducting state is indeed possible in a class of…

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Public Support for Geoengineering Research: Key Survey Insights

The study, published today, 24 October, in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, is the first international survey on public perception of…

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Water-Rich Planet-Forming Disk Discovered Around TW Star

Water is an essential ingredient for life. Scientists have found thousands of Earth-oceans’ worth of it within the planet-forming disk surrounding the star TW…

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Space weather prediction model improves NOAA’s forecast skill

Explosions in the sun’s outer atmosphere – tracked and forecast by NOAA scientists – can cause geomagnetic and solar radiation storms at Earth that can impede…

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