Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Silicon Micro-Islands Enhance Water Flow on Glass Surfaces

Working at the nanoscale level, University of Arkansas engineering researchers have created stable superhydrophilic surfaces on a glass substrate. The…

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H.E.S.S. Telescopes Discover Gamma-Light Radio Galaxy

The weak radiation has been discovered by the H.E.S.S. telescopes in Namibia, currently one of the most sensitive instruments of high-energy astrophysics. (The…

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UK Astronomers Study Asteroid Before Earth Impact

This is the very first time that an asteroid that hit the Earth has been studied before entering our atmosphere, allowing the scientists to predict whether it…

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Symmetry Math Reveals Insights Into CP Violation in Physics

This imbalance, called the CP violation, distinguishes matter from antimatter and is essential to understanding why matter predominates over antimatter in the…

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Erratic Black Hole Self-Regulation: New Insights Unveiled

Black holes come in many sizes: the supermassive ones, including those in quasars, which weigh in at millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, and the…

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Asteroid Monitored from Space to Earth: A Close Encounter

Reports by scientists of meteorites striking Earth in the past have resembled police reports of so many muggings — the offenders came out of nowhere and then…

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Flow Sensors Inspired by Blind Cavefish Hair Structures

Although members of the fish species Astyanax fasciatus cannot see, they sense their environment and the movement of water around them with gel-covered hairs…

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Argonne Cloud Boosts High Energy Physics Experiments

The integration was achieved by leveraging two mechanisms: the Nimbus Context Broker, developed by computer scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's…

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New Method for Cheap, Flexible Electronic Components

Physicists at Umeå University in Sweden have now developed a new and simple method for producing cheap electronic components.”The method is simple and can…

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New Material Promises Faster Microchips for Advanced Tech

New research findings at MIT could lead to microchips that operate at much higher speeds than is possible with today's standard silicon chips, leading to cell…

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Hubble Discovers Unique Star Before 2005 Supernova

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has identified a star that was one million times brighter than the sun before it exploded as a supernova in 2005. According to…

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Queen's scientists discover giant solar twists

Along with scientists at the University of Sheffield and California State University, the researchers have detected giant twisting waves in the lower…

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GOCE Completes Launch Phase and Enters Fine Pointing Mode

The end of the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) came overnight after GOCE was switched to Fine Pointing Mode. This means that all of its systems are working…

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Finding Twin Earths: NASA’s Quest for Habitable Worlds

NASA's Kepler spacecraft just launched to find such worlds. Once the search succeeds, the next questions driving research will be: Is that planet habitable?…

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Supernova Origins Confirmed: Unlocking Stellar Mysteries

A star is a large ball of hot gas and in its incredibly hot interior hydrogen atoms combine to form helium, which subsequently forms carbon, other heavier…

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Weizmann Institute Observes Largest Exploding Star Ever

In the first observation if its kind, scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and San Diego State University were able to watch what happens when a…

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