Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Seeing Through Opaque Materials: Innovative Advances Explained

Materials such as paper, paint, and biological tissue are opaque because the light that passes through them is scattered in complicated and seemingly random…

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Exotic Antimatter Found at RHIC: New Insights from Gold Ion Collisions

An international team of scientists studying high-energy collisions of gold ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference…

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Explore the Moon’s Deepest Crater: Ancient Secrets Revealed

“This is the biggest, deepest crater on the Moon — an abyss that could engulf the United States from the East Coast through Texas,” said Noah Petro of NASA’s…

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University of Arizona Secures $6M for Dark Energy Research

UA's Imaging Technology Laboratory, a research group within Steward Observatory, and the Optical Fabrication and Engineering Facility at the College of Optical…

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Lava Creates River-Like Channel on Mars, NASA Reveals Findings

These results were presented on March 4, 2010 at the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference by Jacob Bleacher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center,…

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Turning up the heat: Finding out how well the Webb telescope's sunshield will perform

For the James Webb Space Telescope to see the traces of infrared light generated by stars and galaxies billions of light years away, it must be kept at…

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Kent State Researchers Discover Massive Antinucleus Breakthrough

Ten Kent State University researchers are part of a team of international scientists who have discovered the most massive antinucleus discovered to date.They…

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From 2-trillion-degree heat, researchers create new matter — and new questions

Researchers Carl Gagliardi, Saskia Mioduszewski, Robert Tribble, Matthew Cervantes, Rory Clarke, Martin Codrington, Pibero Djawotho, James Drachenberg, Ahmed…

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NIST, NASA Launch Joint Effort to Improve Climate Data

The Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Mission includes a fleet of satellites tentatively scheduled for launch later this decade…

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NASA Grant Will Enable Novel Ice-Mapping Radar

The research will create a technological first – a small, lightweight, low-cost phased-array radar that uses silicon-germanium (SiGe) chips in tandem with…

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'Perfect' Liquid Hot Enough to be Quark Soup

Recent analyses from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference “atom smasher” at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven…

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New Method Shapes 3D Crystals in Nonlinear Optical Materials

Engineering and guiding light by artificial structures is one of the most actual questions in photonics, allowing optical information processing to open new…

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NASA's Fermi probes 'dragons' of the gamma-ray sky

Now, astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope find themselves in the same situation as cartographers of old. A new study of the ever-present…

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Webb Telescope's first primary mirror meets cold temperature specifications, sets program landmark

Northrop Grumman Corporation is leading Webb's design and development effort for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. “Many predicted it would…

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Measuring Universe’s Age: Dark Matter Insights Explained

A paper describing the work appears in the March issue of The Astrophysical Journal.The Hubble constant has previously been calculated by using NASA's Hubble…

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Ultrafast Optical Communications: New Device Breakthrough

“We have found a way to measure a very high capacity waveform with a combination of standard electronics and optics,” said S.J. Ben Yoo, professor of…

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