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Scientists Discover Closest ‘Hypervelocity Star’

A University of Utah-led team discovered a "hypervelocity star" that is the closest, second-brightest and among the largest of 20 found so far. Speeding at more than 1 million mph, the star may provide clues about the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way and the halo of mysterious "dark matter" surrounding the galaxy, astronomers say.

7 May 2014

EPFL LASTRO Scientists Win ‘GRavitational LEnsing Accuracy Testing’ Image Processing Challenge

Scientists from the EPFL Laboratory of Astrophysics (LASTRO) win the GREAT3 image processing competition

7 May 2014

Advances in Controlling Appearance of Superconducting Phase in Materials

For the first time, scientists have a clearer understanding of how to control the appearance of a superconducting phase in a material, adding crucial fundamental knowledge and perhaps setting the stage for advances in the field of superconductivity.

6 May 2014

Interstellar Medium Used as a Giant Lens to Make Precise Measurement of Spinning Neutron Star

An international team of astronomers has made a measurement of a distant neutron star that is one million times more precise than the previous world’s best.

6 May 2014

Important Discoveries Made Regarding Basic Structure of Mesons

Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University have made several important discoveries regarding the basic structure of mesons—subatomic particles long thought to be composed of one quark and one antiquark and bound together by a strong interaction.

5 May 2014

Researchers Create and Observe Several Atoms of Superheavy Element 117

Several atoms of the superheavy element with atomic number 117 have been created and observed by an international collaboration working at the GSI accelerator laboratory in Germany.

5 May 2014

Astronomers Discover Three Exploding Stars Far Behind Massive Clusters of Galaxies

What could be more exciting than watching the fireworks of cataclysmic stellar explosions outshining entire galaxies of stars? How about watching them through the funhouse lens of a massive cluster of galaxies whose powerful gravity warps space around it?

5 May 2014

Segue 1 May Have Failed in Trying to Become a Big Galaxy

Out on the edge of the universe, 75,000 light years from us, a galaxy known as Segue 1 has some unusual properties: It is the faintest galaxy ever detected.

5 May 2014

Physicists Gather to Explore High-Energy Physics Beyond CERN's Large Hadron Collider

An international group of about 100 physicists gathered last week for the first formal workshop at SLAC to explore the world of high-energy physics beyond CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which is famous for unearthing the Higgs boson – and even beyond the International Linear Collider, a facility that hasn't been built yet.

5 May 2014

Realistic Theoretical Model for Condensing Photons in 3-D Cavities

The first model for capturing and condensing light under realistic conditions has been realized by a student at EPFL, and published in Physical Review A.

5 May 2014