He is one of many scientists who believe that magnets could revolutionize computing, forming the basis of high-capacity and low-energy memory, data storage and…
Objects or satellites in geostationary orbit (GEO) can always be found above the same point on the Equator, meaning that they appear immobile when observed…
Graphene, an ultra-flat monolayer of carbon atoms in a hexagonal crystal lattice, has attracted a strong wave of research interest due to its unique electrical…
Life, as we know it, is based on the chemistry of carbon and oxygen. The three-dimensional distribution of their abundance and chemical bonds has been…
What causes a magnet to be a magnet, and how can we control a magnet's behavior? These are the questions that University at Buffalo researcher Igor Zutic, a…
“What's important about this event isn't so much the 'what' but the 'where,'” said Neil Gehrels, lead scientist for Swift at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center…
A team of physicists at the University of Innsbruck, led by Philipp Schindler and Rainer Blatt, has been the first to demonstrate a crucial element for a…
Because of its strange consequences the quantum mechanical phenomenon of entanglement has been called “spooky action at a distance” by Albert Einstein. For…
The red planet’s rapid formation helps explain why it is so small, say the study’s co-authors, Nicolas Dauphas at the University of Chicago and Ali Pourmand at…
The size and nature of the blue straggler population detected in the bulge will allow astronomers to better understand if the bulge is exclusively old stars,…
Using the scraping of butter as a starting point, the engineers launched a study to see if the age-old scratch test could be used to determine a material’s…
Located in the Sagittarius-Carina arm of the Milky Way a mere 7,500 light years from Earth, the Carina Nebula has long been a favorite target for astronomers…
To understand our past and imagine our future, we must understand what happens when galaxies collide. But since galaxy collisions take place over millions to…
Mars developed in as little as two to four million years after the birth of the solar system, far more quickly than Earth, according to results of a new study…
How unique is the Milky Way?To find out, a group of researchers led by Stanford University astrophysicist Risa Wechsler compared the Milky Way to similar…
“A star's rotation slows down steadily with time, like a top spinning on a table, and can be used as a clock to determine its age,” says astronomer Soren…
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