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Supernova Explosion Driven by the Black Hole Eating its Binary Companion

A black hole-powered supernova explosion that consumes its binary companion.

11 Jan 2024

Funding Available for Technology Development Research Leveraging International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory is soliciting flight concepts for technology development that would utilize the space-based environment of the orbiting laboratory.

11 Jan 2024

Gaining Further Knowledge of Quantum Mechanics

The quantum Cheshire Cat effect is named after the fictitious Cheshire Cat from the novel Alice in Wonderland. That cat was able to vanish, leaving just its smile.

10 Jan 2024

Minimizing the Reality Gap in Quantum Devices with Machine Learning

A major obstacle facing quantum devices has been solved by a University of Oxford study that leveraged machine learning capabilities. The results show how to bridge the “reality gap,” or the discrepancy between expected and observed behavior from quantum devices, for the first time. Physical Review X has published the findings.

10 Jan 2024

Physicists Find Evidence of Elusive Sterile Neutrino in Gallium Experiment

Scientists have confirmed possible evidence of a new elementary particle, the sterile neutrino. These particles, if they exist, interact only via gravity, not any of the other forces in the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

10 Jan 2024

James Webb Space Telescope Discovers Mysterious Methane Glow on Cold Brown Dwarf

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) with infrared emission from methane, likely due to energy in its upper atmosphere.

10 Jan 2024

Unraveling the Secrets of Shared Quantum Entanglement

In partnership with String Theorist Robert de Mello Koch of Huzhou University in China (formerly from Wits University), researchers from the Structured Light Laboratory (School of Physics) at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, under the direction of Professor Andrew Forbes, have shown for the first time that it is possible to perturb pairs of spatially separated yet interconnected quantum entangled particles without changing particles shared properties.

10 Jan 2024

Non-Chiral Material Generates Chiral Structures in Unexpected Turn

Research reveals that nonchiral systems can give rise to chiral structures with mirror-image configurations, opening up new possibilities for the engineering of these materials.

10 Jan 2024

Astronomers Solve the Mystery of Giant Radio Circles

Astronomers ask questions like, “What is that?” not very often. Cosmological phenomena such as stars, planets, black holes, and galaxies are the most commonly observed and understood.

9 Jan 2024

Cracking the Venusian Code: The Mystery of UV Absorption in Clouds

Scientists may have solved a long-standing enigma by figuring out the missing element in the chemistry of the Venusian clouds that would account for their color and splotchiness in the UV spectrum.

8 Jan 2024

XRISM's Revolutionary Insights into X-Ray Astronomy

A first glimpse of the unparalleled data that will be gathered when science operations of the Japan-led XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory start later this year has been made public.

8 Jan 2024

Unlocking the Secrets of Electrons: A Breakthrough in Attosecond Physics

When electrons move within a molecule or semiconductor, this occurs on unimaginably short time scales. A Swedish-German including physicist Dr Jan Vogelsang from the University of Oldenburg has now made significant progress towards a better understanding of these ultrafast processes.

8 Jan 2024