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Scientists Identify Volatile Gas That Drove Lunar Fire Fountain Eruptions

Tiny beads of volcanic glass found on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions are a sign that fire fountain eruptions took place on the Moon's surface. Now, scientists from Brown University and the Carnegie Institution for Science have identified the volatile gas that drove those eruptions.

25 Aug 2015

Physicists Make Advances in Quantum Logic Gates for Quantum Computers

A team of physicists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have taken a step toward making the essential building block of quantum computers out of pure light. Their advance, described in a paper published this week in Nature Physics, has to do with a specific part of computer circuitry known as a "logic gate."

25 Aug 2015

Optical Tunnelling of Electron from an Atom Could Occur Instantaneously

The combination of ab-initio numerical experiments and theory shows that optical tunnelling of an electron from an atom can occur instantaneously.

25 Aug 2015

American Astronomical Society Honors NASA Goddard Scientist with 2015 Harold C. Urey Prize

The Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society awarded its 2015 Harold C. Urey Prize to Dr. Geronimo Luis Villanueva of the Catholic University of America, Washington and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

24 Aug 2015

Researchers Plan to Flush out Dark Energy Hiding in the Form of 'Chameleons'

If dark energy is hiding in our midst in the form of hypothetical particles called "chameleons," Holger Müller and his team at the University of California, Berkeley, plan to flush them out.

24 Aug 2015

Saturn’s F Ring and Shepherd Satellites Could Be Natural Outcome of Formation of Saturn’s Satellite System

HYODO Ryuki, a second-year student in the Doctoral Program, and Professor OHTSUKI Keiji of the Graduate School of Science at Kobe University have revealed that Saturn’s F ring and its shepherd satellites are natural outcome of the final stage of formation of Saturn’s satellite system. Their finding has been published online in Nature Geoscience on August 17.

24 Aug 2015

Large Hydrocarbon Molecules in Interstellar Space may be the Cause of Diffuse Interstellar Bands

It is one of the most intriguing questions in astrochemistry: the mystery of the diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs), a collection of about 400 absorption bands that show up in spectra of light that reaches the earth after having traversed the interstellar medium. Despite intense research efforts over the last few decades, an assignment of the DIBs has remained elusive, although indications exist that they may arise from the presence of large hydrocarbon molecules in interstellar space. Recent experiments at the Max Born Institute lend novel credibility to this hypothesis.

24 Aug 2015

Supermassive Black Hole Could Have Left Deep Scars on the Heart of the Milky Way

Who left the deep scars on the heart of our Milky Way? In their hunt for elusive clues that might reveal the culprit, an international team of astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics has been scouring cosmic images of the X-ray satellite XMM-Newton. The prime suspect is the supermassive black hole lurking at the centre of the Milky Way. But a number of massive stars and supernovae do not appear entirely innocent, either.

21 Aug 2015

Researchers Unravel Mystery of How Jupiter and Saturn Could Have Formed

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Queen’s University in Canada have unraveled the mystery of how Jupiter and Saturn likely formed. This discovery, which changes our view of how all planets might have formed, will be published in the Aug. 20 issue of Nature.

21 Aug 2015

Two New Experiments Advance Efforts to Identify Components of Dark Matter and Energy

Two new reports advance efforts to identify components of dark matter and energy, which together comprise about 95% of the universe yet leave much to scientists' imaginations. Both experiments illustrate how basic questions about the universe's development can be addressed by laboratory-scale experiments.

21 Aug 2015

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Scientists Identify Volatile Gas That Drove Lunar Fire Fountain Eruptions

Physicists Make Advances in Quantum Logic Gates for Quantum Computers

Optical Tunnelling of Electron from an Atom Could Occur Instantaneously

American Astronomical Society Honors NASA Goddard Scientist with 2015 Harold C. Urey Prize

Researchers Plan to Flush out Dark Energy Hiding in the Form of 'Chameleons'

Saturn’s F Ring and Shepherd Satellites Could Be Natural Outcome of Formation of Saturn’s Satellite System

Large Hydrocarbon Molecules in Interstellar Space may be the Cause of Diffuse Interstellar Bands

Supermassive Black Hole Could Have Left Deep Scars on the Heart of the Milky Way

Researchers Unravel Mystery of How Jupiter and Saturn Could Have Formed

Two New Experiments Advance Efforts to Identify Components of Dark Matter and Energy

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

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Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

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