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Streamlining the measurement of phonon dispersion

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

As the interest in renewable energy and energy-efficient devices continues to grow, so has the scientific community's interest in discovering and designing new ...

The formation of supermassive black holes in the very early universe

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

Observations in the past decade have demonstrated that extremely massive supermassive black holes were already in place when the Universe was less than 800 mill...

Star discovered in closest known orbit around black hole

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

Astronomers have found evidence for a star that whips around a black hole about twice an hour. This may be the tightest orbital dance ever witnessed for a black...

Hubble dates black hole's last big meal

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

For the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, it's been a long time between dinners. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found that the b...

Synchrotron sheds light on carbon chemistry at ocean surfaces

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

Nature's carbonate system, the dynamic chemistry involving carbon dioxide (CO2), carbonate (CO32-), bicarbonate (HCO3-), and carbonic acid (H2CO3), is a vital c...

Researchers propose technique for measuring weak or nonexistent magnetic fields

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

Physicists at the University of Iowa have proposed a new technique to detect and measure materials that give off weak magnetic signals or have no magnetic field...

Magnetic fields at the crossroads

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

From compasses used in ancient overseas navigation to electrical motors, sensors, and actuators in cars, magnetic materials have been a mainstay throughout huma...

Towards mastering terahertz waves?

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

The terahertz waves span frequency ranges between the infrared spectrum (used, for example, for night vision) and gigahertz waves (which find their application,...

NASA Wants to Create the Coolest Spot in the Universe

Mar 07, 2017 (JPL)

This summer, an ice chest-sized box will fly to the International Space Station, where it will create the coolest spot in the universe. Inside that box, lasers,...

OLYMPUS experiment sheds light on structure of protons

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

A mystery concerning the structure of protons is a step closer to being solved, thanks to a seven-year experiment led by researchers at MIT. For many years rese...

Rapid changes point to origin of ultra-fast black hole 'burps'

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

Gas outflows are common features of active supermassive black holes that reside in the center of large galaxies. Millions to billions of times the mass of the S...

Quantum entanglement between a single photon and a trillion of atoms

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

New light is shed on the famous paradox of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen after 80 years. A group of researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of ...

Exploring Colliding Black Holes and Neutron Stars

Mar 01, 2017 (SPX)

In January 2017 - just one year after the dawn of gravitational-wave astronomy - the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, ...

Exploring the mysteries of supercooled water

Mar 01, 2017 (SPX)

There are few things more central to life on earth than water. It dominates the physical landscape, covering much of the planet as oceans. It's also a major com...

Existence of a new quasiparticle demonstrated

Mar 01, 2017 (SPX)

How do molecules rotate in a solvent? Answering this question is a complicated task since the molecular rotation is perturbed by a very large number of surround...

First trace of differences between matter and 'ordinary' antimatter

Feb 24, 2017 (SPX)

The world around us is mainly constructed of baryons, particles composed of three quarks. Why are there no antibaryons, since just after the Big Bang, matter an...

Changes of supermassive black hole in the center of NGC 2617 galaxy

Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)

Members of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have been studying changes in the appearance of emission from around th...

Why it will take supercomputers, AI to solve time travel conundrum

Feb 22, 2017 (Sputnik)

In an interview with Sputnik Mundo, Russian cosmologist Andrei Kananin said that time travel is possible and people may be able to visit the future in a time ma...

Molecular phenomenon discovered by advanced NMR facility

Feb 21, 2017 (SPX)

Cutting edge technology has shown a molecule self-assembling into different forms when passing between solution state to solid state, and back again - a curious...

Measuring entropy in the mobility of a single molecule

Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)

Chemical reactions, especially in biological systems, oftentimes involve macromolecules changing their shape - their "configuration" - for instance, by rotation...