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International Research Team Uncovers Unique Supernova Explosion

One-hundred million light years away from Earth, an unusual supernova is exploding.

11 Sep 2020

Scientists Probe the Validity of "Kibble-Zurek" Mechanism in Two Quantum Annealers

It is established that matter can transition between different phases when certain parameters, such as temperature, are changed.

11 Sep 2020

Galaxy Clusters Contain More Small-Scale Dark Matter Gravitational Lenses than Expected

The gravitational pull of cold dark matter in galaxy clusters can distort or bend the light coming from distant background galaxies, in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.

11 Sep 2020

Gravitational Tugs by Jupiter's Moons Could Account for More Warming

Jupiter's moons are hot. Well, hotter than they should be, for being so far from the sun. In a process called tidal heating, gravitational tugs from Jupiter's moons and the planet itself stretch and squish the moons enough to warm them.

11 Sep 2020

Astronomers Reveal a Puzzling Detail in the Way Dark Matter Behaves

Astronomers have discovered that there may be a missing ingredient in our cosmic recipe of how dark matter behaves

11 Sep 2020

Study Describes Quirky Quantum Behavior of Magnetic Topological Insulator

The search is on to discover new states of matter, and possibly new ways of encoding, manipulating, and transporting information.

11 Sep 2020

Physicists Decipher New and Unexpected Quantum Behaviors in an Ultracold Gas

There they were, in all their weird quantum glory: ultracold lithium atoms in the optical trap operated by UC Santa Barbara undergraduate student Alec Cao and his colleagues in David Weld's atomic physics group.

10 Sep 2020

Virgo and LIGO Discover the Biggest Gravitational Wave Source So Far

The Virgo Collaboration and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration recently reported the discovery of GW190521, the biggest gravitational wave binary viewed so far. Researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology played a crucial role in finding and analyzing the event.

10 Sep 2020

Scientists Use Powerful Laser Blasts to Create Magnetized-Plasma Conditions Similar to a Black Hole

Laser Engineering at Osaka University have successfully used short, but extremely powerful laser blasts to generate magnetic field reconnection inside a plasma.

9 Sep 2020