TIME SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)

The edge of chaos-right before chaos sets in-is a unique place. It is found in many dynamical systems that cross the boundary between a well-behaved dynamics an...

Scientists complete the top quark puzzle

Feb 27, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists on the CDF and DZero experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced that they have found the fin...

Researchers say distant quasars could close a loophole in quantum mechanics

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

In a paper published this week in the journal Physical Review Letters, MIT researchers propose an experiment that may close the last major loophole of Bell's in...

Bullying black holes force galaxies to stay red and dead

Feb 26, 2014 (ESA)

Herschel has discovered massive elliptical galaxies in the nearby Universe containing plenty of cold gas, even though the galaxies fail to produce new stars. Co...

Optimising custody is child's play for physicists

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

Physics can provide insights into societal trends. Problems involving interactions between people linked in real-life networks can be better understood by using...

A forgotten model of the universe

Feb 21, 2014 (SPX)

A paper published in EPJ H provides the first English translation and an analysis of one of Albert Einstein's little-known papers, "On the cosmological problem ...

Clouds seen circling supermassive black holes

Feb 21, 2014 (SPX)

Astronomers see huge clouds of gas orbiting supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. Once thought to be a relatively uniform, fog-like ring, the acc...

Einstein's conversion from a static to an expanding universe

Feb 20, 2014 (SPX)

Until 1931, physicist Albert Einstein believed that the universe was static. An urban legend attributes this change of perspective to when American astronomer E...

When a black hole shreds a star, a bright flare tells the story

Feb 20, 2014 (SPX)

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz uses computer simulations to explore the universe's most violent events, so when the first detailed observations of a star being ripped apar...

Massive neutrinos solve a cosmological conundrum

Feb 13, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists have solved a major problem with the current standard model of cosmology identified by combining results from the Planck spacecraft and measurements ...

Researchers Find Unambiguous Evidence for Coherent Phonons in Superlattices

Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)

We all learn in high school science about the dual nature of light - that it exists as both waves and quantum particles called photons. It is this duality of li...

Solving a physics mystery: Those 'solitons' are really vortex rings

Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)

The same physics that gives tornadoes their ferocious stability lies at the heart of new University of Washington research, and could lead to a better understan...

Quarks in the looking glass

Feb 06, 2014 (SPX)

From matching wings on butterflies to the repeating six-point pattern of snowflakes, symmetries echo through nature, even down to the smallest building blocks o...

NASA to study almost absolute zero matter at ISS

Feb 05, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

NASA has revealed its plans to create the coldest spot in the known universe on board the International Space Station in 2016. The researchers are preparing to ...

Rice lab clocks 'hot' electrons

Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)

Plasmonic nanoparticles developed at Rice University are becoming known for their ability to turn light into heat, but how to use them to generate electricity i...

Black Hole Powers 'Cosmic Flashlight' Illuminating the Cosmic Web

Jan 28, 2014 (SPX)

Cosmologists believe that matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures known as the cosmic web. The v...

Extreme Power of Black Hole Revealed

Jan 27, 2014 (SPX)

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and a suite of other telescopes to reveal one of the most powerful black holes known. The black hole has ...

Peeking into Schrodinger's box

Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)

Until recently measuring a 27-dimensional quantum state would have been a time-consuming, multistage process using a technique called quantum tomography, which ...

JILA strontium atomic clock sets new records in both precision and stability

Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)

Heralding a new age of terrific timekeeping, a research group led by a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicist has unveiled an experimen...

Mass is critical at nano-scale; matters in calculations and measurements

Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)

A UT Arlington engineering professor has proven that the effect of mass is important, can be measured and has a significant impact on any calculations and measu...