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Household Chemical Ingredient can Enhance Fusion Reactions

For individuals who wish to improve their chances of making electric current from fusion, they need not look any further than the cleaners stored under their kitchen sinks.

31 Mar 2021

Stellar Eggs Containing Baby Stars Found Around the Center of the Milky Way

Astronomers found a number of stellar eggs containing baby stars around the center of the Milky Way using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Previous studies had suggested that the environment there is too harsh to form stars. These findings indicate that star formation is more resilient than researchers thought.

30 Mar 2021

Researchers Uncover a Fabled Intermediate-Mass Black Hole

A recently discovered, new black hole has set a record, not for being the biggest or the smallest one, but for being positioned exactly in the middle.

30 Mar 2021

Two New Experiments to Carry Antiprotons for Antimatter, Nuclear-Physics Studies

The Antimatter Factory at CERN is the world’s only facility that produces low-energy antiprotons—the antimatter equivalents of protons.

29 Mar 2021

New Bi-Molecule Could Find Use in Quantum Sensors, Quantum Optics, Quantum Computing

Dr Rosario González-Férez, a scientist from the Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics and the “Carlos I” Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics of the University of Granada, has demonstrated a new kind of bi-molecule created from two nitric oxide (NO) molecules, both in the Rydberg electronic state and in their ground state.

26 Mar 2021

Particle Physicists Search for Hints of New Physics in the Subatomic World

Peer deeper into the heart of the atom than any microscope allows and scientists hypothesize that you will find a rich world of particles popping in and out of the vacuum, decaying into other particles, and adding to the weirdness of the visible world. These subatomic particles are governed by the quantum nature of the Universe and find tangible, physical form in experimental results.

25 Mar 2021

Astronomers Capture a Signature of Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has today revealed a new view of the massive object at the centre of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy: how it looks in polarised light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarisation, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole. The observations are key to explaining how the M87 galaxy, located 55 million light-years away, is able to launch energetic jets from its core.

25 Mar 2021

Study Shows Effect of Gravitational Influence on Star Cluster Nearest to Sun

Data obtained from the European Space Agency’s Gaia star-mapping satellite has demonstrated interesting evidence that the closest cluster of stars to the Sun is being disturbed by the gravitational effect of a huge but unobserved structure in the Milky Way galaxy.

25 Mar 2021

CSIRO's Dish to Support One of the First Commercial Moon Landings

The iconic Parkes radio telescope, owned and operated by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, will help businesses to literally reach for the Moon by providing ground station support for one of the first commercial lunar landings later this year.

25 Mar 2021

Novel Thermometer can Quickly Measure Temperatures During Quantum Calculations

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed a novel type of thermometer that can simply and quickly measure temperatures during quantum calculations with extremely high accuracy. The breakthrough provides a benchmarking tool for quantum computing of great value - and opens up for experiments in the exciting field of quantum thermodynamics.

24 Mar 2021