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New largest prime number found in Missouri
Jan 20, 2016 (UPI)
There's a new largest prime number in town, and at 22 million digits, it's bigger than the last by 5 million digits. But no one's feelings are hurt too badly, b...
FAU researchers investigate how light behaves in curved space
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
To investigate the influence of gravity on the propagation of light, researchers usually have to examine astronomical length scales and huge masses. However, ph...
Why Spiderman can't exist: Geckos are 'size limit' for sticking to walls
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
Latest research reveals why geckos are the largest animals able to scale smooth vertical walls - even larger climbers would require unmanageably large sticky fo...
Much like white light, spacetime is also composed of a certain rainbow
Jan 18, 2016 (SPX)
When white light is passed through a prism, the rainbow on the other side reveals a rich palette of colors. Theorists from the Faculty of Physics, University of...
Physicists propose the first scheme to teleport the memory of an organism
Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)
In "Star Trek", a transporter can teleport a person from one location to a remote location without actually making the journey along the way. Such a transporter...
Scientists find evidence of second biggest black hole in Milky Way
Jan 15, 2016 (UPI)
A team of astronomers in Japan have discovered evidence of what they call an "intermediate mass" black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The finding...
First light for future black hole probe
Jan 14, 2016 (SPX)
Zooming in on black holes is the main mission for the newly installed instrument GRAVITY at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile. During its first observations, ...
Green pea galaxy provides insights to early universe evolution
Jan 14, 2016 (SPX)
Newly formed dwarf galaxies were likely the reason that the universe heated up about 13 billion years ago, according to new work by an international team of sci...
Pinning down the ticking of the neural clock
Jan 13, 2016 (SPX)
Our innate ability to track time is important for our everyday lives. We would not be able to speak, or even walk properly if we were not able to get the timing...
Physicists offer theories to explain mysterious collision at Large Hadron Collider
Jan 10, 2016 (SPX)
Physicists around the world were puzzled recently when an unusual bump appeared in the signal of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerfu...
Quiet quasar has apparently eaten its fill
Jan 10, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) announced that a distant quasar ran out of gas. Their conclusions, reported Jan. 8 at the American Astronom...
AAVSO observers contribute to understanding the black hole binary V404 Cygni
Jan 08, 2016 (SPX)
V404 Cygni has been known as a variable star residing in the constellation Cygnus since the 18th century. It was believed to be a nova, a compact binary system ...
Black hole affecting galactic climate
Jan 08, 2016 (SPX)
team of researchers led by Eric Schlegel, Vaughn Family Endowed Professor in Physics at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has discovered a powerful...
Bacteria, electrons spin in similar patterns
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
There are certain universal patterns in nature that hold true, regardless of objects' size, species, or surroundings. Take, for instance, the branching fractals...
'Seeing' black holes with the naked eye
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
All you need is a 20 cm telescope to observe a nearby, active black hole. An international research team reports that the activity of such phenomena can be obse...
NASA's Chandra Finds Supermassive Black Hole Burping Nearby
Jan 06, 2016 (SPX)
Evidence for powerful blasts produced by a giant black hole has been discovered using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This is one of the nearest supermassive ...
Galactic merger reveals an unusual black hole that has shed its stars
Jan 06, 2016 (SPX)
In this season of post-holiday gym memberships, black holes have shown that they too can lose a lot of the weight of the stars that surround them. One unusually...
Beam-beam compensation scheme doubles proton-proton collision rates
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
Accelerator physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have successfully implemented an innovative scheme for increasing...
It's official! Element 113 was discovered at RIKEN
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
Element 113, discovered by a RIKEN group led by Kosuke Morita, has become the first element on the periodic table found in Asia. Rewarding nearly a decade of pa...
Quantum Foam
Jan 04, 2016 (SPX)
Quantum foam. It may sound like the name of a new craft beer, but it's something even more amazing. To 'see' it, you have to dive down the rabbit hole of quantu...
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