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Processing of Planck Satellite Data in a New Way Makes Several Anomalies Disappear

Last year, the Planck Telescope revealed the most detailed picture of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the Big Bang. But this map contains features that challenge the standard model of cosmology, the theory that describes our entire Universe from early on.

5 Aug 2014

Outer Heliosphere Research Achievements Highlighted at 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly

Scientists yesterday highlighted an impressive list of achievements in researching the outer heliosphere at the 40th International Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly in Moscow.

5 Aug 2014

NSF to Support AURA’s Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has officialy agreed to support the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in managing the construction of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in Chile.

5 Aug 2014

The Trick of Growing Perfect Films of Ruddlesden-Poppers

Like the perfect sandwich, a perfectly engineered thin film for electronics requires not only the right ingredients, but also just the right thickness of each ingredient in the desired order, down to individual layers of atoms.

5 Aug 2014

Three Extremely Bright Volcanic Outbursts on Jupiter's Moon in August 2013

Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter's moon Io within a two-week period in August of last year. This led astronomers to speculate that such "outbursts," which can send material hundreds of miles above the surface, might be much more common than they thought.

5 Aug 2014

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Moves onto Two-Year Extension

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, a premier black-hole hunter among other talents, has finished up its two-year prime mission, and will be moving onto its next phase, a two-year extension.

4 Aug 2014

Coma Surrounds Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s Nucleus

Less than a week before Rosetta's rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, images obtained by OSIRIS, the spacecraft's onboard scientific imaging system, show clear signs of a coma surrounding the comet's nucleus.

4 Aug 2014

Classical Nova Explosions Can Produce High-Energy Radiation

The Universe is home to a variety of exotic objects and beautiful phenomena, some of which can generate almost inconceivable amounts of energy.

4 Aug 2014

Directionally Dependent Behavior Arises from Inherent Physical Properties in Iron-Based High-Temperature Superconductors

Scientists have new clues this week about one of the baffling electronic properties of the iron-based high-temperature superconductor barium iron nickel arsenide.

4 Aug 2014

Nematic Phases Formation Does Not Stem from Doping Effects of Ferrous High-Temperature Superconductors

Below a specific transition temperature superconductors transmit electrical current nearly loss-free. For the best of the so-called high-temperature superconductors, this temperature lies around -180 °C – a temperature that can be achieved by cooling with liquid nitrogen.

4 Aug 2014