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The farthest supernova yet for measuring cosmic history
Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)
What if you had a "Wayback Television Set" and could watch an entire month of ancient prehistory unfold before your eyes in real time? David Rubin of the U.S. D...
Testing Einstein's E=mc2 in Outer Space
Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)
UA physicist Andrei Lebed has stirred the physics community with an intriguing idea yet to be tested experimentally: The world's most iconic equation, Albert Ei...
From the Amazon rainforest to human body cells: Quantifying stability
Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)
As they typically result from severe external perturbations, it is of vital interest how stable the most desirable state is. Surprisingly, this basic question h...
Spacetime: A Smoother Brew Than We Knew
Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)
Spacetime may be less like foamy quantum beer and more like smooth Einsteinian whiskey, according to research led by physicist Robert Nemiroff of Michigan Techn...
News from the world of quantum physics: A non-causal quantum eraser
Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)
Whether a quantum object behaves like a wave or like a particle depends (according to the Copenhagen interpretation) on the choice of measurement apparatus used...
Astronomers spot biggest structure in Universe
Jan 11, 2013 (AFP)
Astronomers on Friday said they had observed the largest structure yet seen in the cosmos, a cluster of galaxies from the early Universe that spans an astonishi...
NASA's NuStar Catches Black Holes In Galaxy Web
Jan 10, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, set its X-ray eyes on a spiral galaxy and caught the brilliant glow of two black holes lurking inside. ...
A temperature below absolute zero
Jan 08, 2013 (SPX)
What is normal to most people in winter has so far been impossible in physics: a minus temperature. On the Celsius scale minus temperatures are only surprising ...
Magnetic fields created before the first stars
Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)
Magnets have practically become everyday objects. Earlier on, however, the universe consisted only of nonmagnetic elements and particles. Just how the magnetic ...
Our Galaxy's geysers are towers of power
Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)
"Monster" outflows of charged particles from the centre of our Galaxy, stretching more than halfway across the sky, have been detected and mapped with CSIRO's 6...
Power boost for particle accelerator could unlock physics secrets
Jan 02, 2013 (UPI)
The Large Hadron Collider will get a power boost to follow up on the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the so-called "God particle," European physicists say. Work w...
May the force be with the atomic probe
Dec 26, 2012 (SPX)
Theoretical physicist Elad Eizner from Ben Gurion University, Israel, and colleagues created models to study the attractive forces affecting atoms located at a ...
Entering a new phase
Dec 26, 2012 (SPX)
Condensed matter physics - the branch of physics responsible for discovering and describing most of these phases - has traditionally classified phases by the wa...
Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Discovery of the Higgs boson
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
The observation of an elusive sub-atomic particle, known as the Higgs boson, has been heralded by the journal Science as the most important scientific discovery...
Monster Black Holes
Dec 20, 2012 (SPX)
The black hole at the center of this galaxy is part of a survey of 18 of the biggest black holes in the universe. This large elliptical galaxy is in the center ...
How white dwarfs mimic black holes
Dec 20, 2012 (SPX)
A remarkable observation by astronomers from the University of Southampton has been published in one of the world's foremost astrophysics research journals. The...
Penn Metamaterials Experts Show a Way to Reduce Electrons' Effective Mass to Nearly Zero
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
The field of metamaterials involves augmenting materials with specially designed patterns, enabling those materials to manipulate electromagnetic waves and fiel...
Math formula gives new glimpse into the magical mind of Ramanujan
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
December 22 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician renowned for somehow intuiting extraordinary numerical patt...
Extending Einstein
Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)
Physicists at the University of Calgary and at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo have published new research in Nature Physics which builds on the...
Study Reveals a Remarkable Symmetry in Black Hole Jets
Dec 17, 2012 (SPX)
Black holes range from modest objects formed when individual stars end their lives to behemoths billions of times more massive that rule the centers of galaxies...
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