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Astronomers Discover Wildly Disorganized Magnetic Field Near Newly Emerging Protostar

For decades, scientists thought that the magnetic field lines coursing around newly forming stars were both powerful and unyielding, working like jail bars to corral star-forming material.

15 Jun 2017

New Technique Uses Lasers and Ultra-Cold Helium Droplets for Better Alignment of Molecules

Chemical reactions necessarily involve molecules coming together, and the way they interact can depend on how they are aligned relative to each other. By knowing and controlling the alignment of molecules, a great deal can be learned about how chemical reactions occur.

14 Jun 2017

BGU Researchers to Construct and Operate Advanced Dark Matter Detector

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will construct and operate an advanced dark matter detector. The initiative is partly funded by a joint grant from the American National Science Foundation and the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation.

14 Jun 2017

Researchers Develop New Strategy to Search for 'Primordial' Black Holes

An interdisciplinary team of physicists and astronomers at the University of Amsterdam’s GRAPPA Center of Excellence for Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics has devised a new strategy to search for 'primordial' black holes produced in the early universe.

14 Jun 2017

Astronomers Observe Birth Cry of Massive Baby Star in Orion Nebula

An international research team led by a Japanese astronomer has determined how the enigmatic gas flow from a massive baby star is launched. The team used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe the baby star and obtained clear evidence of rotation in the outflow.

13 Jun 2017