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New Method Could Help Map the Universe's Ultraviolet Radiation

Astronomers have developed a way to detect the ultraviolet (UV) background of the Universe, which could help explain why there are so few small galaxies in the cosmos.

22 Mar 2017

Researchers Describe Pulsars as Extremely Dense Neutron Stars that Emit Beams of Radio Waves

What sounds like a stomach-turning ride at an amusement park might hold the key to unravelling the mysterious mechanism that causes beams of radio waves to shoot out from pulsars − super-magnetic rotating stars in our Galaxy.

22 Mar 2017

New Computer Simulation Helps Explain Existence of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe

A new computer simulation helps explain the existence of puzzling supermassive black holes observed in the early universe. The simulation is based on a computer code used to understand the coupling of radiation and certain materials.

22 Mar 2017

SISSA Joins Simons Observatory Project to Study Origins of the Universe

The silence of an immense desolate land in which to search for reverberations coming from the time at which everything began.

22 Mar 2017

Scientists Demonstrate Existence of Entanglement Area Law in Real Quantum Liquid

A team of scientists has discovered that a law controlling the bizarre behavior of black holes out in space—is also true for cold helium atoms that can be studied in laboratories.

22 Mar 2017

ISU Physicist Researches Quantum Physics by Studying Atomic Collisions

A jumble of letters and numbers fills the computer screen. To an untrained onlooker, the lines may look like gibberish, but it is actually a computer code key to understanding the smallest pieces of the universe.

21 Mar 2017

New Feedback System Could Control Energy and Rotation of Plasma in Real Time

Like a potter shaping clay as it spins on a wheel, physicists use magnetic fields and powerful particle beams to control and shape the plasma as it twists and turns through a fusion device.

21 Mar 2017

Star’s 'Death Spiral' Creates Shock Waves Far from Black Hole

Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the sun wandered too close to the central black hole of its galaxy. Intense tides tore the star apart, which produced an eruption of optical, ultraviolet and X-ray light that first reached Earth in 2014.

21 Mar 2017

SJTU Researchers Detect Majorana Fermion in Artificial Topological Superconductor

The detection of Majorana fermion is one of the hotspots in the study of condensed matter recently. The research group in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) achieved great breakthrough in the detection of Majorana fermion in the artificial topological superconductor, which is the heterostructure of a normal superconductor and a topological insulator.

20 Mar 2017

Researchers Reveal Dynamics of Orbital Angular Momentum of Plasmons

A team of Israeli and German researchers from Technion in Haifa and the universities of Kaiserslautern, Duisburg-Essen and Stuttgart have been able to reveal for the first time the dynamics of the orbital angular momentum of plasmons.

20 Mar 2017