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NASA Celebrates Hubble’s 30 Years of Unveiling a Blazing Starbirth

NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's 30 years of unlocking the beauty and mystery of space by unveiling a stunning new portrait of a firestorm of starbirth in a neighboring galaxy.

27 Apr 2020

A Novel Method for Generating Soliton Collisions in Microresonators

Solitons are self-reinforcing particle-like wave packets enabled by the balance between dispersion and nonlinearity.

27 Apr 2020

FAST Discovers an Eclipsing Binary Millisecond Pulsar

Using the data obtained by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, a research team led by Professor PAN Zhichen and Prof. LI Di from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered an eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar in Globular Cluster Messier 92.

27 Apr 2020

Researchers Experimentally Construct the Symmetries of Quantum Electrodynamics

The fundamental laws of physics are based on symmetries that, among other things, determine the interactions between charged particles.

27 Apr 2020

Venus' Super-Rotation Maintained by Atmospheric Tidal Waves

Images from the Akatsuki spacecraft unveil what keeps Venus's atmosphere rotating much faster than the planet itself.

26 Apr 2020

Novel Design for Quantum Computer can be Constructed Using Existing Technology

Quantum computing is increasingly becoming the focus of scientists in fields such as physics and chemistry, and industrialists in the pharmaceutical, airplane, and automobile industries.

26 Apr 2020

Physicists Test Preisach Model Using Soft Magnetic Materials

Laboratory of Novice Magnet Materials working in collaboration with Spanish scientists (the University of Oviedo, Spain) tested the Preisach model using interfacing Fe-based microwires.

24 Apr 2020

Researchers Receive NSF Grant to Support Development of the Einstein Toolkit

The National Science Foundation recently awarded researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Louisiana State University, Georgia Tech and West Virginia University grants totaling more than $2.3 million to support further development of the Einstein Toolkit.

24 Apr 2020

Neutrino Study Shows Matter and Antimatter Behave Differently

Scientists from the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC), the Physics Institute of Other Energies (IFAE-Barcelona), and the Autonomous University of Madrid have discovered a fundamental property of neutrinos that had not been quantified to date.

24 Apr 2020

Mathematical Model to Accurately Gauge Temperatures of Exoplanets

Astronomers from Cornell University observed a peculiar pattern in scientific articles—describing exoplanets as cooler than predicted.

24 Apr 2020

Topological Superconductivity Could Advance Quantum Computing

Researchers at the Center for Quantum Devices, Niels Bohr Institute, of the University of Copenhagen, used a pencil-shaped semiconductor, with a diameter of only a few hundred nanometers, to unravel a new path to Majorana zero modes and topological superconductivity.

23 Apr 2020