
Planet-forming Lifeline Discovered in a Binary Star System
For the first time, researchers using ALMA have detected a streamer of gas flowing from a massive outer disc toward the inner reaches of a binary star system. This never-before-seen feature may be r ... more
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Physicists Closer to Understanding Balance of Matter, Antimatter
Distinguished Professor Sheldon Stone and his colleagues recently announced their findings at a workshop at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Titled "Implications of LHCb Measurements and Their Future Pr ... more
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Simulations of Exoplanet Formation May Help Inform Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Ancient hot springs reveal how microbes thrived before Earth gained oxygen
Framework proposed to study planetary scale impact of life
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Can the wave function of an electron be divided and trapped?
New research by physicists from Brown University puts the profound strangeness of quantum mechanics in a nutshell - or, more accurately, in a helium bubble.
Experiments led by Humphrey Maris, ... more
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Burning passion: Chinese rich pay sky-high meteorite prices
One small cheque to a businessman, one giant leap for a meteorite: after journeys of millions of kilometres, rocks formed from the primordial soup of the solar system have landed on the walls of a Chinese showroom. ... more
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New insights into the physics of space weather
Each second, the sun hurls millions of tons of hot, charged plasma gas into space. This volatile "solar wind" buffets the magnetosphere, the magnetic field that surrounds the Earth, and can whip up ... more
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Here's Looking at You: Spooky Shadow Gives Jupiter a Giant Eye
This trick that the planet is looking back at you is actually a Hubble treat: An eerie, close-up view of Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system.
Hubble was monitoring changes in Jupit ... more
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NASA's LRO Spacecraft Captures Images of LADEE's Impact Crater
NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission. ... more
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