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Large, Rocky Object Disintegrating in Death Spiral Around White Dwarf Star

Astronomers announced today that they have spotted a large, rocky object disintegrating in its death spiral around a distant white dwarf star. The discovery also confirms a long-standing theory behind the source of white dwarf “pollution” by metals.

22 Oct 2015

Scientists Present Findings from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer

In 14 papers published in the October 2015 Astrophysical Journal Supplement, scientists present findings from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mission providing the most definitive analyses, theories and results about local interstellar space to date.

22 Oct 2015

Mass Extinctions Linked to Comet and Asteroid Showers

Mass extinctions occurring over the past 260 million years were likely caused by comet and asteroid showers, scientists conclude in a new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

22 Oct 2015

New Age of Particle Physics to Probe Deep Structure of Space-Time

Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe. According to a new theoretical study published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, when our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago only eight percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in the universe existed. And, the party won't be over when the sun burns out in another 6 billion years. The bulk of those planets - 92 percent - have yet to be born.

22 Oct 2015

Innumerable Earth-Like Planets Yet to be Born

22 Oct 2015

Fundamental Laws of Quantum Mechanics Account for the Phenomenon of Thermal Conduction

Thermal conduction “revealed” starting from the foundations of Physics
It was one of the “missing pieces” in the Theoretical Physics of Materials puzzle and today a group of SISSA researchers has finally found it: for the first time, the phenomenon of thermal conduction has been accounted for by the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics. The study, just published in Nature Physics, will allow scientists to simulate this phenomenon numerically in extreme temperature and pressure conditions, such as those existing inside planets, or for materials, such as covalent glasses or liquids, to which currently available methods do not apply.

20 Oct 2015

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz to Get New Cyclotron Building

Groundbreaking ceremony for new cyclotron building at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz / Large-scale research facility enhances the university's strong research profile

20 Oct 2015

Electronic Nanostars Discovered in 2D Layered Superconductors

Physicists from France and Russia have discovered magnetic disturbances in two-dimensional (2D) layered superconductors, resembling small oscillating stars. These star-like electronic excitations are located around individual magnetic atoms put inside the superconducting material.

19 Oct 2015