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Breakthrough Reached in Understanding Unusual Lightning-Triggered Gamma-Rays

The Telescope Array, spread across an area measuring the size of New York City, waits to receive cosmic rays in the western Utah desert. It detects the high-energy particles that crash into Earth’s atmosphere continuously; the cosmic rays activate the sensors once every few minutes.

22 May 2018

Quantum Entanglement Characterization Could Lead to Ultra-Sensitive Optical Gradiometers

Experimental physicist Rainer Blatt and his team have been successful in characterizing the quantum entanglement of two spatially separated atoms by monitoring their light emission.

21 May 2018

Study Hints at Possible Existence of Life Throughout Multiverse

A new study has proposed that in contrast to earlier beliefs, a Multiverse - which includes many universes like our own - may not be so inhospitable to life.

21 May 2018

U.S. DOE Approves Initiation of SuperCDMS SNOLAB Dark Matter Experiment

The funding and start of construction for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment have been approved by the U.S. Department of Energy. The operations will be started in the early 2020s to search for hypothetical dark matter particles known as weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs).

15 May 2018

Astronomers Use Hubble to Observe Surviving Companions to Supernovas

Seventeen years ago, astronomers observed a supernova explosion at a distance of 40 million light-years in the galaxy known as NGC 7424, in the southern constellation Grus, the Crane.

4 May 2018

New Radiation Source Could be Less Harmful than X-Rays

Researchers from the University of Strathclyde and Capital Normal University in Beijing are working on a new source of intense terahertz (THz) radiation, which could deliver a less destructive substitute to X-rays and has robust potential for application in industry.

4 May 2018

New Model for Explaining the Emission of Directed Radio Waves from Neutron Stars

Young researchers from ITMO University have described how intense directed radio emission is produced by neutron stars. Based on the transitions of particles between gravitational states, that is, quantum states in the gravitational field, they have developed a model.

25 Apr 2018