Astronomers have discovered that WASP-76b, an exoplanet 390 light years from our own solar system, is a world dominated by an extreme dichotomy.
By Robert Lea
27 Mar 2020
The discovery of water vapor in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2–18b made it an ideal object of study for scientists seeking to understand the planets that lie within the ‘habitable zone’ of other star systems.
By Robert Lea
27 Mar 2020
The universe is expanding, and it is doing so at an accelerating rate. However, lingering questions about universal expansion do remain. Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Geneva, Lucas Lombriser, has put forward an extraordinary suggestion.
By Robert Lea
26 Mar 2020
Astronomers have discovered a massive white dwarf, 1.14 times the mass of our Sun, which they propose is the result of a star merger between two smaller white dwarfs.
By Robert Lea
26 Mar 2020
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques are a class of imaging techniques that rely on the interaction between an atomically sharp tip and a surface to identify and characterize the topology of the sample.
By Liam Critchley
13 Mar 2020
An international team of physicists from the Universities of Illinois in the United States, Pavia, Italy, and Toronto, Canada has recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters that demonstrates a new method for generating quantum entanglement in an optical fiber.
By Ben Pilkington, MSt.
12 Mar 2020
As renewable energy continues to be a priority, the ability to provide more supercapacitors to meet these demands will subsequently rise. To this end, there has been an increased interest in exploiting quantum mechanical effects to improve the performance of energy storage systems.
By John Allen
12 Mar 2020
A massive cavity found in a distant galactic cluster was punched out by the most powerful explosion ever recorded, reveals new research by astronomers.
By Robert Lea
10 Mar 2020
Without the counter-intuitive nature of quantum tunneling and the randomness at its heart, the stars themselves could not shine and life would not exist.
By Robert Lea
28 Feb 2020
Infrared (IR) microscopy, or IR microspectroscopy, combines techniques of microscopy with processes derived from spectroscopy. Microscopy is the magnification of specimens for observation, and spectroscopy is the study of interactions between matter and radiated energy, usually in the form of light.
By Ben Pilkington, MSt.
24 Feb 2020