“It's no longer completely crazy to ask what happened before the Big Bang,” comments Marc Kamionkowski, Caltech's Robinson Professor of Theoretical Physics and…
PhD student Erik Engwall of Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics led the study, which uses data from the European Cluster satellites…
Astronomy is a science of origins.”It's the ultimate exercise in archeology,” said Steven Majewski, a University of Virginia professor of astronomy and lead…
Each mirror in the array is 8µm x 8µm and can be individually tilted by the high-speed integrated CMOS circuitry underneath the array. This device fits in…
The study was conducted by a team of scientists headed by Charles “Rick” Chappell, research professor of physics and director of the Dyer Observatory at…
William Herschel discovered this fascinating object during his great sky surveys in the late 18th century. He first noticed the bright cluster in January 1784…
Recent innovations in laser technology have provided radiation sources for attosecond (10 to the power of -18 sec) light flashes that can freeze the ultrafast…
Found in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, 30 Doradus is one of the largest massive star forming regions close to the Milky Way. Enormous stars in 30 Doradus,…
The government has today announced the funding to help establish a new Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing at the University of Adelaide from next…
The multiple images are a result of gravitational lensing by a foreground galaxy, an effect that was predicted by Albert Einstein as a consequence of his…
Scientists call these rivulets “gravity fingers,” and the explanation for their formation has to do with the surface tension where the water—or any…
If the moon Europa is tilted on its axis even slightly as it orbits the giant planet Jupiter, then Jupiter's gravitational pull could be creating powerful…
When the University of Chicago’s David Mazziotti talks about chemistry, perhaps he is thinking about how the behavior of all of the electrons in a molecule can…
The task of analyzing the internal structure of biological cells is a relatively complex affair. When using an electron microscope, the whole cells first have…
Scientists propose that groundwater had a greater role in shaping the martian surface than previously believed, and may have sheltered primitive life forms as…
David Kipping, whose work is funded by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), has found that such moons can be revealed by looking at…
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