Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Golden Ratio Unveiled in Quantum Research Breakthrough

Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), in cooperation with colleagues from Oxford and Bristol Universities, as well…

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NASA’s New Mirror Testing Dispels Superstitious Myths

Fast forward a couple of centuries from ancient time and myths to find NASA is developing a primary mirror, 21.3 feet in diameter, for use on the James Webb…

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Scientists Reveal Milky Way's Magnetic Attraction

The evidence is significant because it gives astronomers a lower limit on the magnetic field, an important factor in calculating a whole range of astronomical…

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Magnet Lab Reclaims World Record for Highest-Field Resistive Magnet

Engineers and technicians in late December completed testing of a 36-tesla magnet. (Tesla is a measure of magnetic-field strength; the new magnet is more than…

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Exploring Earth’s Formation: How It Survived Its Birth

For the last 20 years, the best models of planet formation—or how planets grow from dust in a gas disk—have contradicted the very existence of Earth. These…

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Iowa State Physicists Analyze Data from Large Hadron Collider

Finally. The multibillion-dollar collider made international news on Sept. 10, 2008, when it sent its first beam of protons around 17 miles of underground…

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Earthlike Exoplanet Origins: From Gas Giant to Habitable World

“The first planets detected outside our solar system 15 years ago turned out to be enormous gas-giants in very tight orbits around their stars. We call them…

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UBC Astronomers Share Stunning 12-Billion-Year-Old Space Nursery

Recently presented at the first International Herschel Science Meeting in Madrid, Spain, the images by UBC post-doctoral fellow Gaelen Marsden reveal tens of…

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Australian Lakes May Hold Clues to Life on Mars

Microbiologists like Dr. Melanie Mormile from Missouri University of Science and Technology are studying organisms found in the salt-water lakes of western…

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New Math Model Enhances Early Universe Simulations

Reynolds collaborated with astrophysicists at the University of California at San Diego as part of a National Science Foundation project to simulate cosmic…

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Goddard scientist's breakthrough given ticket to Mars

“Mars was a lot different 3-1/2 billion years ago. It was more like Earth with liquid water,” said Jennifer Eigenbrode, a scientist at the NASA Goddard Space…

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Sun Glints from Space Reveal Ocean and Lake Reflections

These sun glints are like sunshine glancing off the hood of a car. We can see them reflecting off a smooth surface when we are positioned in just the right way…

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How people work … and the fingerprint mystery

Writing in January's Physics World, Dr Roland Ennos, a biomechanic in the Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Manchester, explains how we need to look…

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Exploring Cosmic Magnetic Fields: New Research Unit Launches

The group's main objective is to explore the origin and structure of cosmic magnetic fields and their impact on galaxy development.Funded for an initial…

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Supernova Explosions Stay In Shape

A new study of images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory on supernova remnants – the debris from exploded stars – shows that the symmetry of the remnants,…

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Colliding Auroras Create Stunning Light Displays

“Our jaws dropped when we saw the movies for the first time,” said space scientist Larry Lyons of the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), a member of…

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