Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

X-rays emitted from the remnant of a supernova provide clues to its explosive history

The supernova remnant known as the Jellyfish Nebula and IC 443 lies 5,000 light years away from Earth in the Gemini constellation. Left after a stellar…

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Physicists Build With Photons Like Lego Bricks

While many of us enjoyed constructing little houses out of toy bricks when we were kids, this task is much more difficult if bricks are elementary particles….

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New One-Step Method Enables P-Type and N-Type Doping in Graphene

A simple one-step process that produces both n-type and p-type doping of large-area graphene surfaces could facilitate use of the promising material for future…

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Voluntary Swine Flu Vaccination System Proves Effective

New research published today, Thursday 11 February, in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society), shows that…

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Home PCs Join Forces to Map the Milky Way Galaxy

At this very moment, tens of thousands of home computers around the world are quietly working together to solve the largest and most basic mysteries of our…

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Orion Nebula Unveiled: Stunning VISTA Telescope Discovery

The Orion Nebula reveals many of its hidden secrets in a dramatic image taken by ESO’s new VISTA survey telescope. The telescope’s huge field of view can show…

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Saturn's aurorae images 'unique to science'

Scientists from the University of Leicester have led an international study to capture space images that are unique to science.Researchers using the NASA/ESA…

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New High-Performance Microring Resonator for Telecoms

A new, more efficient low-cost microring resonator for high speed telecommunications systems has been developed and tested by Professor Roberto Morandotti's…

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Starlit Memories Lead Scientist Back to His Roots

That early fascination with the heavens led to a vital role in the study of the solar system for Economou, a Senior Scientist in the Enrico Fermi Institute….

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Scientists Explore the Future of High-Energy Physics

“How much energy you can put into a particle per meter corresponds directly to how big the machine is,” says Steven Sibener, the Carl William Eisendrath…

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Explore Exoplanet Chemistry with Ground-Based Telescopes

The technique can be used by comparatively small telescopes on the ground, making exoplanet chemistry more widely accessible than ever before. First…

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Rice physicists kill cancer with 'nanobubbles'

Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists at Rice University have discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them…

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NIST's second 'quantum logic clock' based on aluminum ion is now world's most precise clock

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single…

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Where did today’s spiral galaxies come from?

If confirmed, the finding highlights the importance to many galaxies of collisions and mergers in the recent past. It also provides clues for the unique status…

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Merging Galaxies Form Unique Binary Quasar System

Quasars are the extremely bright centers of galaxies surrounding super-massive black holes, and binary quasars are pairs of quasars bound together by gravity….

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Ultrasound Technique Reveals Leaf Properties in Innovation Study

Tomas E. Gómez, one of the authors of the study and researcher at the CSIC Institute of Acoustics, where a technique has been developed to analyse these parts…

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