TIME SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)

This surprising result opens up completely new possibilities for active camouflage. The idea can be applied to different kinds of waves, it should work with sou...

First neutron beam produced: A great milestone for CSNS

Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)

At 10:56 a.m., a proton beam pulse from the accelerator collided with the tungsten target for the first time, after Professor CHEN Hesheng, CSNS project manager...

Aussie quantum tech has its sights set on human biochemistry

Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)

In a new paper published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers at the University of Melbourne reveal a "quantum kangaroo" that demonstrates a way to d...

UCLA physicists propose new theories of black holes from the very early universe

Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)

A long-standing question in astrophysics is whether the universe's very first black holes came into existence less than a second after the Big Bang or whether t...

Researchers propose how the universe became filled with light

Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)

How it emerged from the cosmic dark ages to a clearer, light-filled state remains a mystery. In a new study, researchers at the University of Iowa offer a theor...

Black hole models contradicted by hands-on tests at Sandia's Z machine

Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)

"Of course, emission directly from black holes cannot be observed," said Sandia researcher and lead author Guillaume Loisel, lead author for a paper on the expe...

Record-breaking galaxy 5 billion light-years away shows we live in a magnetic universe

Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)

The observation shows a magnetic field of a similar strength and configuration to that seen in our own Milky Way Galaxy, even though the distant galaxy is five ...

Scientists 'excited' by observations suggesting formation scenarios

Aug 24, 2017 (SPX)

The paper, published in Nature, is based on data that came about following landmark observations of gravitational waves by the LIGO gravitational wave detector ...

NICER and LISA to Confirm or Disprove Predictions of General Relativity

Aug 22, 2017 (SPX)

NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is already in space. It was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 3, 2017 and is m...

Superconductivity research reveals potential new state of matter

Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)

The high-magnetic-field state of the heavy fermion superconductor CeRhIn5 revealed a so-called electronic nematic state, in which the material's electrons align...

Supermassive black holes feed on cosmic jellyfish

Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)

The tentacles of jellyfish galaxies are produced in galaxy clusters by a process called ram pressure stripping. Their mutual gravitational attraction causes gal...

Cosmic magnifying lens reveals inner jets of black holes

Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)

"We have known about the existence of these clumps of material streaming along black hole jets, and that they move close to the speed of light, but not much is ...

International team of researchers redefines cosmic velocity web

Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)

Matter was distributed almost homogeneously in the very early universe, with only miniscule variations in density. Over the 14-billion-year history of the unive...

Massive particles test standard quantum theory

Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)

In standard quantum mechanics, the interference pattern resulting from an arbitrary number of non-interacting open paths can always be described by all combinat...

Innovative way to understand nature of an entire tiny particle

Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)

The study, which was recently published in the journal Measurement Science and Technology, describes an inventive technique to mathematically estimate the exten...

Ohio Supercomputer Center helps researchers map invisible universe

Aug 14, 2017 (SPX)

The new results released Aug. 3 confirm the surprisingly simple but puzzling theory that the present universe is composed of only 4 percent ordinary matter, 26 ...

UCI celestial census indicates that black holes pervade the universe

Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)

"We think we've shown that there are as many as 100 million black holes in our galaxy," said UCI chair and professor of physics and astronomy James Bullock, co-...

High resolution without particle accelerator

Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)

However, this method would have even greater potential for science if a shorter radiation wavelength were used, thus allowing a higher resolution of the image. ...

Researchers set record for fastest light pulse

Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)

The group led by Professor Zenghu Chang beat its own record set in 2012: a 67-attosecond extreme ultraviolet light pulse that was the fastest at the time. At on...

Riding the wave: Pioneering research tames nanoquakes

Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)

The research team, led by Professor Geoff Nash from the University of Exeter, have created a new structure that can manipulate the extreme frequency sound waves...