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Scientists propose revolutionary laser system to produce the next LHC
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of physicists has proposed a revolutionary laser system, inspired by the telecommunications technology, to produce the next generation of ...
SDSC's Gordon Supercomputer Assists in Crunching Large Hadron Collider Data
Apr 05, 2013 (SPX)
Gordon, the unique supercomputer launched last year by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, recently completed ...
ALMA Detects Signs of Star Formation Surprisingly Close to Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole
Apr 05, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered signs of star formation perilously close to the supermassive black hol...
Shape from sound - new methods to probe the universe
Apr 04, 2013 (SPX)
As the universe expands, it is continually subjected to energy shifts, or "quantum fluctuations," that send out little pulses of "sound" into the fabric of spac...
Green Pea galaxies could help astronomers understand early universe
Apr 04, 2013 (SPX)
The rare Green Pea galaxies discovered by the general public in 2007 could help confirm astronomers' understanding of reionization, a pivotal stage in the evolu...
What Is Behind Einstein's Turbulences?
Apr 04, 2013 (SPX)
The American Nobel Prize Laureate for Physics Richard Feynman once described turbulence as "the most important unsolved problem of classical physics", because a...
Black hole wakes up and has a light snack
Apr 03, 2013 (ESA)
Astronomers have watched as a black hole woke up from a decades-long slumber to feed on a low-mass object - either a brown dwarf or a giant planet - that straye...
LHC upgrade could yield dark matter
Apr 02, 2013 (UPI)
A $105 million upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland could double its power and let scientists probe mysterious "dark matter," researchers say. Th...
Hungry black hole wakes up for a planet-sized snack
Apr 02, 2013 (AFP)
Astrophysicists have witnessed the rare event of a black hole awakening from its slumber to snack on a planet-sized object in a galaxy 47 million light years aw...
'Metascreen' forms ultra-thin invisibility cloak
Apr 02, 2013 (SPX)
Up until now, the invisibility cloaks put forward by scientists have been fairly bulky contraptions - an obvious flaw for those interested in Harry Potter-style...
Physics of fluids explained 100 years after original discovery
Mar 29, 2013 (SPX)
Sunghwan Jung is a fan of the 19th Century born John William Strutt, 3rd, also known as Lord Baron Rayleigh. An English physicist, Rayleigh, along with William ...
New radio telescope in SA will shed light on earliest moments of universe
Mar 28, 2013 (SPX)
In the week that saw the release of the first results from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite, astronomers at the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Obser...
Laser empties atoms from the inside out
Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of plasma physicists has used one of the world's most powerful lasers to create highly unusual plasma composed of hollow atoms. The experi...
Measuring the magnetism of antimatter
Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)
In a breakthrough that could one day yield important clues about the nature of matter itself, a team of Harvard scientists have succeeding in measuring the magn...
Planck challenges our understanding of the Universe
Mar 22, 2013 (SPX)
Europe's Planck satellite - a flagship mission for the UK Space Agency - has compiled the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background (the...
JPL Supercomputer Helps Planck Mission Expose Ancient Light
Mar 22, 2013 (JPL)
Like archeologists carefully digging for fossils, scientists with the Planck mission are sifting through cosmic clutter to find the most ancient light in the un...
Physicists Play Key Role in Planck Mission to Map Early Universe
Mar 22, 2013 (SPX)
The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age,...
Planck's 'child' universe
Mar 22, 2013 (ESA)
"We are very excited, we are finally seeing the concrete results of so many years of hard work". This is how the scientists of the Planck project have commented...
Black hole-star pair orbiting at dizzying speed
Mar 22, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope has helped to identify a star and a black hole that orbit each other at the dizzying rate of once every 2.4 hours, smashing the...
Simple but challenging: the Universe according to Planck
Mar 22, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's Planck satellite has delivered its first all-sky image of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), bringing with it new challenges about our understanding o...
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