TIME SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

Possible death of the Universe scenario proposed

Jul 26, 2018 (SPX)

Singularity is a state of the Universe characterized by infinite curvature, energy, and gravitational field intensity. At the point of about 30 - 60 million yea...

World's fastest man-made spinning object could help study quantum mechanics

Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)

At more than 60 billion revolutions per minute, this machine is more than 100,000 times faster than a high-speed dental drill. "This study has many applications...

Fastest manmade spinning object to aid quantum mechanics research

Jul 20, 2018 (UPI)

The new rotor can spin at a rate of 60 billion revolutions per minute. Most airplane turbines top out at 3,000 revolutions per minute. Scientists described thei...

Final Planck Data Strongly Supports Standard Cosmological Model

Jul 18, 2018 (SPX)

The corresponding articles have been submitted to the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. With its increased reliability and its data on the polarisation of rel...

From an almost perfect Universe to the best of both worlds

Jul 18, 2018 (ESA)

Whereas light that our eyes can see is composed of small wavelengths - less than a thousandth of a millimetre in length - the radiation that Planck was detectin...

Theorists publish highest-precision prediction of muon magnetic anomaly

Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)

The calculations take into account how muons interact with all other known particles through three of nature's four fundamental forces (the strong nuclear force...

NASA's Fermi Traces Source of Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole

Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)

High-energy neutrinos are hard-to-catch particles that scientists think are created by the most powerful events in the cosmos, such as galaxy mergers and materi...

Two independent magnetic skyrmion phases discovered in a single material

Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)

Magnetic whirls are formed when the magnetic moments are aligned in a circular fashion. These so-called skyrmions are not just interesting for basic research - ...

Centenary of cosmological constant lambda

Jul 12, 2018 (SPX)

Although the term was first introduced when the universe was thought to be static, today the cosmological constant has become the main candidate for representin...

Scientists discover heaviest known calcium atom, other rare isotopes

Jul 12, 2018 (UPI)

Through experimentation at RIKEN's Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory in Japan, scientists synthesized new sulfur, chlorine, argon, potassium, scandium and calciu...

Putting a quantum gas through its phases

Jul 11, 2018 (SPX)

However, many materials of current fundamental and technological interest are characterised by more than one order parameter. And here the situation can become ...

Higgs boson observed decaying into pairs of b quarks

Jul 10, 2018 (UPI)

The Higgs boson is an elementary particle essential to the Standard Model. It is associated with the Higgs field, an energy field that gives particles their mas...

Plasma-spewing quasar shines light on universe's youth, early galaxy formation

Jul 10, 2018 (SPX)

Banados' discovery was followed up by Emmanuel Momjian of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which allowed the team to see with unprecedented detail the ...

A refined magnetic sense

Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)

A key challenge in that quest is to increase the quality and number of basic building blocks - known as quantum bits, or qubits - that can be connected to perfo...

Guiding sound waves through a maze

Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers at TU Wien are developing methods for manipulating waves in a targeted manner, so that they can move forward with almost no restriction. In a partne...

Magnetic skyrmions: Not the only ones of their class

Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)

"For a long time, the unique object for research in the field of chiral magnets was the magnetic skyrmion. We now provide a new object for investigation by rese...

Theory of general relativity proven yet again in new research

Jul 05, 2018 (SPX)

Einstein's theory states that all objects fall the same way despite their mass or composition, like a cannonball and apple falling off the Leaning Tower of Pisa...

Study provides insight into the physics of the Higgs particle

Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)

For their experiments, scientists at the University of Bonn used a gas made of lithium atoms, which they cooled down significantly. At a certain temperature, th...

Einstein proved right in another galaxy

Jun 25, 2018 (SPX)

By combining data taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, their results show that gravity in this...

Kiel physicists achieve hitherto most accurate description of highly excited electrons

Jun 22, 2018 (SPX)

This model also known as jellium describes the properties of electrons in metals, in molecules and in clusters of atoms. Further, electrons determine the behavi...