“Anyone who has seen a long tail comet in the night sky may be looking at material from another star,” says Professor Duncan.The researchers used computer…
A team led by University of Arizona astronomer Joshua Eisner has observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent…
“Any kindergartner is familiar with this beading phenomenon, which you can demonstrate by stretching a glob of saliva between your thumb and forefinger,” said…
The finding*, made by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the University of Maryland, and the University of Paris XI,…
Despite its ominous name, the dark pulse laser is envisioned as a tool for benign communications and measurements based on infrared light frequencies. The…
The world’s most powerful beam of heavy ions has enabled Japanese scientists and their international collaborators to uncover 45 new neutron-rich radioisotopes…
New research published today, Tuesday 8 June, in IOP Publishing's Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics describes how scientists from…
The research, published today in the journal Nature, is part of a broad scientific effort to understand nucleosynthesis, or the process by which the higher…
Physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are gearing up for experimental tests of findings they arrived at through theoretical considerations:…
Graphene, a carbon sheet that is one-atom thick, may be at the center of the next revolution in material science. These ultrathin sheets hold great potential…
Frustration has typically been extremely difficult to study because even systems with relatively few components have interactions so complex that they cannot…
The comparison, which relies on extremely precise measurements, reveals the motions of several hundreds of stars, which prove to be at odds with current models…
Researchers at the University of Leicester are examining extraterrestrial material from a comet to assess the origins of our Solar System.For the first time…
Imagine creating novel devices with amazing and exotic optical properties not found in Nature—by simply evaporating a droplet of particles on a surface.By…
Their study explains the origin of these clouds for the first time.Swinburne University PhD student Alyson Ford (now at the University of Michigan) and her…
A team of planetary scientists has used radar and a high-resolution camera to reveal the subsurface geology of Mars' northern ice cap.The findings – based on…
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