Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Lunar Rock Material Could Enable Future Moon Colonies

Initially designed to construct a dome, the building material is composed of a lunar rock-like material mixed with powdered aluminum that can be molded into…

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UK Astronomers Map Universe’s History with Infrared Insights

Making use of an Infrared Array Camera on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS) will make a very large…

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Hubble Telescope’s Final Tune-Up Marks Astronomy Year

From troubled beginnings nearly 18 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy and its stunning images have stirred the imaginations of…

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Controlling Nanowires: Insights from Nature Nanotechnology

How this can be done is described in an article to appear in the January issue of Nature Nanotechnology, with Philippe Caroff and Kimberly Dick as the main…

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PS3 Clusters Aid Astrophysicists in Black Hole Research

It may be the first time this kind of research has been conducted exclusively on a PS3 cluster: A related 2007 UMass Dartmouth/UAHuntsville project using a…

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CoRoT Discovers Young Star Similar to Early Sun

This star is accompanied by a giant planet orbiting around it in only 1.7 days, that was discovered by the CoRoT Extrasolar Planet Team. An investigation on…

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Discover How Early Galaxies Formed in the Universe

The Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS) aims to chart the distribution of stars and black holes from when the Universe was less than a…

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Nuclear Condensation: Transforming Atomic Structure Insights

Our understanding of the electronic structure of atoms has changed very little since the development of quantum mechanics almost three-quarters of a century…

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Hubble Catches Jupiter's Largest Moon Going to the 'Dark Side'

Ganymede completes an orbit around Jupiter every seven days. Because Ganymede's orbit is tilted nearly edge-on to Earth, it routinely can be seen passing in…

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ALMA Observatory Welcomes Its First State-of-the-Art Antenna

The first of many state-of-the-art antennas has just been handed over to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) project. ALMA is under…

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Where did Venus’s water go?

The spacecraft's magnetometer instrument (MAG) detected the unmistakable signature of hydrogen gas being stripped from the day-side. “This is a process that…

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PICO and SALVE: Advancing High-Resolution Electron Microscopy

Two new high-resolution transmission electron microscopes, co-financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), are set to…

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Explore the Quantum World: Animated Insights from Experts

Sanders, who is also the iCORE Chair of Quantum Information Science, has produced a four-minute animated movie with a team of animators and scientists. The…

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Brown Research Team Finds Mineral Boosting Mars Exploration

What is less known is how much water occupied the red planet and what happened to it during its geological march to the present. Mostly, evidence has pointed…

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Moon’s polar craters could be the place to find lunar ice

Astrophysicists, led by an expert at Durham University, say if frozen water exists then it is most likely to be found near to the moon’s poles in craters that…

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Spanish Scientists Advance Model for Moon Movements

Their work is part of an international study, which has come up with an improved theoretical model about the orbital and rotational dynamics of the Earth and…

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