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Supercomputer Simulations Used to Decipher Science Behind Galaxy Formation

How do galaxies like the Milky Way emerge? How do they expand and evolve over time? For several decades, the science underlying galaxy formation has been a mystery.

12 Aug 2019

First-Ever High-Resolution Measurements of Interplanetary Shock

Spending four years and employing high-resolution instruments, the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) has recently observed what no other spacecraft has—the first high-resolution measurements of an interplanetary shock.

12 Aug 2019

Thermal Response for Particle Detectors can Happen Without a Thermal State

For the first time, scientists have determined the essential and sufficient conditions that must be satisfied by the low-energy limit of quantum gravity theories to preserve the principal features of the Unruh effect.

12 Aug 2019

Next-Generation Xenon Detector Assembled at Sanford Underground Research Facility

The major component of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) xenon detector is ready to be closed and lowered almost 1.5 km underground, where it will look for dark matter.

8 Aug 2019

Ancient Galaxies May Shed Light on Dark Matter

Using the combined power of numerous astronomical observatories in space and around the world, astronomers have discovered a treasure-trove of ancient massive galaxies that were not known before.

8 Aug 2019

ALMA Offers Unprecedented Clarity of Orbital Motion Around a Black Hole

What occurs inside a black hole stays inside a black hole, but what takes place within a black hole’s “sphere of influence”—the innermost region of a galaxy where a black hole’s gravity is the central force—is of deep interest to astronomers and can help establish the mass of a black hole as well as its influence on its galactic neighborhood.

8 Aug 2019

Study Claims Dark Matter May be Older than the Big Bang

Dark matter, which scientists believe constitute approximately 80% of the universe’s mass, is one of the most indefinable mysteries in modern physics.

8 Aug 2019

New Insights into the Origin of Life

A famous experiment in 1953 showed that amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, could have formed spontaneously under the atmospheric conditions of early Earth.

8 Aug 2019

Researchers Reproduce Interstellar Collisionless Shock in the Lab

Researchers from MIT and an international team of collaborators have now reproduced in the lab, with high fidelity, massive interstellar events in which charged matter clouds dash into each other and eject high-energy particles.

7 Aug 2019

Antineutrino Monitoring Technique Shows Potential for Current and Future Nuclear Reactors

Technology to determine the flow of subatomic particles, called antineutrinos from nuclear reactors, could enable constant remote monitoring engineered to identify fueling variations that may denote the diversion of nuclear materials.

7 Aug 2019

Astrophysicists Detect Hot, Dense Outflowing Wind Close to a Black Hole

A very hot and dense outflowing wind has been detected near a black hole, which is at least 25,000 light-years from planet Earth. The study was carried out by an international team of astrophysicists from Oxford, Southampton, and South Africa.

7 Aug 2019

New Study Could Accelerate Plasma Self-Heating Studies to Realize Fusion Energy

A group of fusion scientists has been successful in demonstrating that it is possible to heat ions by plasma oscillations induced by high-energy particles.

7 Aug 2019

New Detection Method can Improve Magnetic Bottle that Controls Fusion Reactions

Magnetic fields are generally used by researchers to bottle up and regulate the fusion reactions on Earth. Since these fusion reactions power the stars and sun, any errors in the shape of the fields containing the reactions should be corrected.

6 Aug 2019

Anaemic Star Carries the Mark of its Ancient Ancestor

Australian-led astronomers find the most iron-poor star in the Galaxy, hinting at the nature of the first stars in the Universe.

6 Aug 2019

New Technique to Measure Quantum Entanglement in Chemical Reactions

Researchers have long doubted that a quantum phenomenon might have a role to play in photosynthesis and other natural chemical reactions. However, this was not confirmed since such a phenomenon is very difficult to detect.

5 Aug 2019

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Supercomputer Simulations Used to Decipher Science Behind Galaxy Formation

First-Ever High-Resolution Measurements of Interplanetary Shock

Thermal Response for Particle Detectors can Happen Without a Thermal State

Next-Generation Xenon Detector Assembled at Sanford Underground Research Facility

Ancient Galaxies May Shed Light on Dark Matter

ALMA Offers Unprecedented Clarity of Orbital Motion Around a Black Hole

Study Claims Dark Matter May be Older than the Big Bang

New Insights into the Origin of Life

Researchers Reproduce Interstellar Collisionless Shock in the Lab

Antineutrino Monitoring Technique Shows Potential for Current and Future Nuclear Reactors

Astrophysicists Detect Hot, Dense Outflowing Wind Close to a Black Hole

New Study Could Accelerate Plasma Self-Heating Studies to Realize Fusion Energy

New Detection Method can Improve Magnetic Bottle that Controls Fusion Reactions

Anaemic Star Carries the Mark of its Ancient Ancestor

New Technique to Measure Quantum Entanglement in Chemical Reactions

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