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New Insights into the World of Quantum Materials
How a system behaves is determined by its interaction properties. An important concept in condensed matter physics for describing the energy distribution of…
NASA Sees Hurricane Julio Organize and Emit a Gamma-Ray Flash
NASA's Fermi and Aqua satellites captured two different views of bursts of strength show by Hurricane Julio as it intensified. NASA's Fermi satellite saw a…
NASA's Fermi Finds A 'Transformer' Pulsar
“It's almost as if someone flipped a switch, morphing the system from a lower-energy state to a higher-energy one,” said Benjamin Stappers, an astrophysicist…
Out of An Hours-long Explosion, A Stand-In For The First Stars
“One of the great challenges of modern astrophysics has been the quest to identify the first generation of stars to form in the universe, which we refer to as…
Violent gamma-ray outbursts near supermassive black holes
A team led by Lars Fuhrmann from MPIfR Bonn, performed intensive, multi-frequency radio observations with some of the best single-dish radio telescopes in…
ORNL paper examines clues for superconductivity in an iron-based material
The paper, published in Physical Review Letters, focuses on a calcium-iron-arsenide single crystal, which has structural, thermodynamic and transport…