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Most accurate atomic clock ever built could redefine the second
Jul 10, 2013 (UPI)
European scientists say they have found a more accurate way to measure time, with a new type of atomic clock termed the most accurate yet devised. The device, d...
OU Physicists Develop Rationale for the Next-Generation Particle Collider
Jul 03, 2013 (SPX)
A University of Oklahoma-developed theory provides the rationale for the next-generation particle accelerator-the International Linear Collider. The discovery o...
Dusty Surprise Around Giant Black Hole
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer has gathered the most detailed observations ever of the dust around the huge black hole at the centre of an active gal...
Particle accelerator that can fit on a tabletop opens new chapter for science research
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have built a tabletop particle accelerator that can generate energies and speeds previously reached only by majo...
The Turbulent, High-Energy Sky Is Keeping NuSTAR Busy
Jun 24, 2013 (JPL)
NuSTAR has been busy studying the most energetic phenomena in the universe. Recently, a few high-energy events have sprung up, akin to "things that go bump in t...
Researchers unmask Janus-faced nature of mechanical forces with the Julich supercomputer
Jun 21, 2013 (SPX)
The harder you pull, the quicker it goes. At least, that used to be the rule in mechanochemistry, a method that researchers apply to set chemical reactions in m...
Johns Hopkins Researcher, Colleagues, Solve Mystery of X-ray Light Coming From Black Holes
Jun 18, 2013 (SPX)
It is a mystery that has stymied astrophysicists for decades: how do black holes produce so many high-power X-rays? In a new study, astrophysicists from The Joh...
NASA-led study explains decades of black hole observations
Jun 18, 2013 (SPX)
A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black ho...
New quantum dot technique combines best of optical and electron microscopy
Jun 17, 2013 (SPX)
It's not reruns of "The Jetsons", but researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new microscopy technique...
Black Hole Naps Amidst Stellar Chaos
Jun 17, 2013 (JPL)
Nearly a decade ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory caught signs of what appeared to be a black hole snacking on gas at the middle of the nearby Sculptor gala...
Data Highways for Quantum Information
Jun 14, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology quantum mechanically couple atoms to glass fiber cables. Now, they have shown that their technique enables st...
The Dance of the Atoms
Jun 13, 2013 (SPX)
Lone people standing in a ballroom don't tend to move a lot. It's only when they find a suitable dance partner that rapid motion sets in. Atoms on iron-oxide su...
Stacking up a clearer picture of the Universe
Jun 13, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have proven a new technique that will provide a clearer picture of the Universe's...
Research: More than 2 dozen potential black holes in Andromeda Galaxy
Jun 13, 2013 (UPI)
A plethora of black holes have been discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the galaxies nearest to the Milky Way, a U.S. researcher said. Using data from mo...
Spooky action put to order
Jun 12, 2013 (SPX)
"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." Thus spoke the American physicist Richard Feynman - underlining that even leading scientis...
Quantum teleportation between atomic systems over long distances
Jun 11, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers have been able to teleport information from light to light at a quantum level for several years. In 2006, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute su...
International Team On Keck Observatory Strengthens Big Bang Theory
Jun 10, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of scientists using the most powerful telescope on Earth has discovered that the moments just after the Big Bang happened more like the th...
Black Holes Abundant Among The Earliest Stars
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
By comparing infrared and X-ray background signals across the same stretch of sky, an international team of astronomers has discovered evidence of a significant...
Exploring How Black Holes Become Supermassive
Jun 04, 2013 (SPX)
Rock stars live fast, die young and end their days self-destructively. University of Alberta postdoctoral fellow Jeanette Gladstone says, surprisingly, some sta...
Scientists capture first images of molecules before and after reaction
Jun 03, 2013 (SPX)
Every chemist's dream, to snap an atomic-scale picture of a chemical before and after it reacts, has now come true, thanks to a new technique developed by chemi...
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