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Using light-force to study single molecules
Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at EPFL show how a light-induced force can amplify the sensitivity and resolution of a technique used to study single molecules. When it comes to stu...
Scientists get first glimpse of black hole eating star, ejecting high-speed flare
Nov 27, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of astrophysicists led by a Johns Hopkins University scientist has for the first time witnessed a star being swallowed by a black hole and...
CERN colliding lead ions at record energy using upgraded LHC
Nov 27, 2015 (UPI)
Experiments to simulate matter states existing after the Big Bang are successfully underway at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. CERN, the ...
Quantum spin could create unstoppable, one-dimensional electron waves
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
In certain nanomaterials, electrons are able to race through custom-built roadways just one atom wide. To achieve excellent efficiency, these one-dimensional pa...
Supercomputing the strange difference between matter and antimatter
Nov 24, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of physicists including theorists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has published the first calcul...
Yet more proof of Einstein's general theory of relativity
Nov 24, 2015 (SPX)
A Florida State University high-performance computing researcher has predicted a physical effect that would help physicists and astronomers provide fresh eviden...
Ultra-short X-ray pulses could shed new light on the fastest events in physics
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
Ultra-short x-ray pulses could shed new light on the fastest events in physics. If you've ever been captivated by slow-motion footage on a wildlife documentary,...
NIST team proves 'spooky action at a distance' is really real
Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)
Einstein was wrong about at least one thing: There are, in fact, "spooky actions at a distance," as now proven by researchers at the National Institute of Stand...
Black holes don't need to spin to spit out jets
Nov 18, 2015 (UPI)
Jet streams emanating or pulsing outward from stellar objects are often the result of rotational forces. Spinning has long been the explanation for the jets of ...
Discovery of classic pi formula a 'cunning piece of magic'
Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)
While most people associate the mathematical constant p (pi) with arcs and circles, mathematicians are accustomed to seeing it in a variety of fields. But two U...
Airbus Defence and Space delivers first ACES Ground Terminal
Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space has delivered the first ACES Ground Terminal to the German National Metrology Institute (Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB) in...
Ancient stars at the center of the galaxy contain 'fingerprints' from the early universe
Nov 16, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers, led researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Australian National University, have identified some of the oldes...
Machine learning could solve riddles of galaxy formation
Nov 15, 2015 (SPX)
A new machine-learning simulation system developed at the University of Illinois promises cosmologists an expanded suite of galaxy models - a necessary first st...
Experiment records extreme quantum weirdness
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
An experiment in Singapore has pushed quantum weirdness close to its absolute limit. Researchers from the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National ...
A new explanation for the explosive nature of magnetic reconnection
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
Magnetic reconnection, which occurs when magnetic lines of force break apart and reconnect with a violent burst of energy, gives rise to many beautiful and powe...
Recreating a heavenly chorus of plasma waves on Earth
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
Recent experiments at the Large Plasma Device (LAPD) at the University of California, Los Angeles, have successfully excited elusive plasma waves, known as whis...
Measurement of Hubble constant questioned by Nobel laureate Riess' team
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
In 1920's Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, showed that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth, known as Hubble's l...
Galileo satellites set for year-long Einstein experiment
Nov 10, 2015 (ESA)
Europe's fifth and sixth Galileo satellites - subject to complex salvage manoeuvres following their launch last year into incorrect orbits - will help to perfor...
UMD discovery could enable portable particle accelerators
Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)
Conventional particle accelerators are typically big machines that occupy a lot of space. Even at more modest energies, such as that used for cancer therapy and...
Antimatter not so different after all
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
Due to the diligence of a Rice University student and his calculations, humanity now knows a little more about the universe. Kefeng Xin, a graduate student at R...
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