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Australian Scientists Explore the Mystery Behind Galaxy’s Spin Rate

Scientists have discovered why heavyweight galaxies living in a dense crowd of galaxies tend to spin more slowly than their lighter neighbours.

11 Aug 2017

Updated Computer Code Predicts Behavior of Highly Energetic Atomic Nuclei in Plasma Experiments

A computer code used by physicists around the world to analyze and predict tokamak experiments can now approximate the behavior of highly energetic atomic nuclei, or ions, in fusion plasmas more accurately than ever.

11 Aug 2017

Innovative Sensing Technique for Developing Advanced Quantum Sensors

An innovative type of sensing technique has been developed by researchers at RIT. The technique involves capturing data at higher accuracy than it is probable at present, and it also assures the development of compact, inexpensive, and light-weight sensors.

10 Aug 2017

FAU Astronomers Discover New Class of Variable Dwarf Star

In the middle of the large Chilean Atacama desert, a team of Polish astronomers are patiently monitoring millions of celestial bodies night after night with the help of a modern robotic telescope.

10 Aug 2017

Innovative View on the Existence of Dark Matter

It is a known fact that only a small fragment of the universe comprises of visible matter and that the remaining vast regions are hidden from human eyes and include dark energy and dark matter. Although knowledge on dark energy is highly limited, various experiments and theories on the presence of dark matter, formulated to detect these unexplored particles, do exist.

9 Aug 2017

Researchers Probe Conditions of Stellar Interiors to Better Understand Nuclear Reactions

A majority of the nuclear reactions that trigger the nucleosynthesis of the elements in the universe take place in very extreme stellar plasma conditions.

8 Aug 2017

Scientists Reveal Possible Explanation for Dominance of Matter over Antimatter

Neutrinos and antineutrinos are sometimes known as ‘ghost particles’ because they are difficult to detect, and they can transform from one form to another.

7 Aug 2017

MPQ Researchers Expose Concealed Magnetic Order in One-Dimensional Quantum Crystals Doped with Holes

In everyday-life, the phenomenon of magnetism is experienced quite frequently. The property, which is seen in materials such as such as iron, is caused by the arrangement of electron spins.

7 Aug 2017

Tiny Black Holes May Have Helped Forge Heavy Elements of the Universe

Astronomers believe that we are the byproducts of stars, stellar furnaces that fused helium and hydrogen long ago into the elements necessary for life through the stellar nucleosynthesis process.

7 Aug 2017

MASTER-SHOCK Records One of the Most Powerful Gamma-Ray Bursts

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in the United States recorded a gamma-ray burst on the 25 June, 2016 at 22:40:16 p.m. GMT. Subsequently this proved to be merely a giant burst precursor.

2 Aug 2017