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Best precision yet for neutrino measurements at Daya Bay

Sep 13, 2015 (SPX)

In the Daya Bay region of China, about 55 kilometers northeast of Hong Kong, a research project is underway to study ghostlike, elusive particles called neutrin...

Celeste: A new model for cataloging the universe

Sep 10, 2015 (SPX)

The roots of tradition run deep in astronomy. From Galileo and Copernicus to Hubble and Hawking, scientists and philosophers have been pondering the mysteries o...

Untangling the mechanics of knots

Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)

Got rope? Then try this experiment: Cross both ends, left over right, then bring the left end under and out, as if tying a pair of shoelaces. If you repeat this...

Volunteer black hole hunters as good as the experts

Sep 08, 2015 (SPX)

Trained volunteers are as good as professional astronomers at finding jets shooting from massive black holes and matching them to their host galaxies, research ...

Magnetic wormhole connecting 2 regions of space created for the first time

Sep 04, 2015 (SPX)

"Wormholes" are cosmic tunnels that can connect two distant regions of the universe, and have been popularised by the dissemination of theoretical physics and b...

'Littlest' quark-gluon plasma revealed by physicists using Large Hadron Collider

Sep 04, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of Kansas working with an international team at the Large Hadron Collider have produced quark-gluon plasma - a state of matter tho...

Cosmic Tangles Expanded Universe at a Rate of Knots

Sep 04, 2015 (Sputnik)

Scientists have come up with a knotty theory to explain why the early universe expanded after the Big Bang. The early inflation of the Universe which took place...

The symmetry of the universe

Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)

What did the universe look like shortly after it came into being? The ALICE experiment (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) at CERN in Switzerland concerns itself ...

Tiny drops of early universe 'perfect' fluid

Sep 02, 2015 (SPX)

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle collider for nuclear physics research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Labora...

Contamination pathway for plutonium, other heavy elements, identified

Sep 01, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have reported a major advance in understanding the biological chemistry of radioactive metals...

Draw out of the predicted interatomic force

Sep 01, 2015 (SPX)

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. Liquid Bi shows a peculiar dispersion of the ac...

Seeing Quantum Motion

Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)

Consider the pendulum of a grandfather clock. If you forget to wind it, you will eventually find the pendulum at rest, unmoving. However, this simple observatio...

Evidence suggests subatomic particles could defy the standard model

Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)

The Standard Model of particle physics, which explains most of the known behaviors and interactions of fundamental subatomic particles, has held up remarkably w...

Nearest Quasar powered by a double black hole

Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that Markarian 231 (Mrk 231), the nearest galaxy to Earth that hosts a quasar, is powered by two cent...

Supermassive black holes in nearest quasar

Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)

A University of Oklahoma astrophysicist and his Chinese collaborator have found two supermassive black holes in Markarian 231, the nearest quasar to Earth, usin...

New theory leads to radiationless revolution

Aug 29, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists have found a radical new way confine electromagnetic energy without it leaking away, akin to throwing a pebble into a pond with no splash. The theory...

Quantum diffraction at a breath of nothing

Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)

The quantum mechanical wave nature of matter is the basis for a number of modern technologies like high resolution electron microscopy, neutron-based studies on...

Antarctic detector firms up cosmic neutrino sighting

Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have sorted through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized det...

Attosecond electron catapult

Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) in Munich studied the interaction of light with tiny glass particles. A team of physicists and chemists fro...

Astronomers find 'teeny supermassive black hole'

Aug 13, 2015 (SPX)

In a dwarf, disc galaxy 340 million light years away, University of Michigan astronomers have found the smallest black hole ever observed in the center of a gal...