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Giant Planets Around Young Star Give Insight Into How Planetary Systems Form

Scientists have identified a young star with four Jupiter- and Saturn-sized planets orbiting around it. This is the first time that detection of so many massive planets has been made in such a young system.

16 Oct 2018

Aussie Telescope Almost Doubles Known Number of Mysterious ‘fast radio bursts’

Australian researchers using a CSIRO radio telescope in Western Australia have nearly doubled the known number of ‘fast radio bursts’— powerful flashes of radio waves from deep space.

11 Oct 2018

Diamond Shines Its Light on Moon Rocks from Apollo Missions

An international collaboration involving scientists in Tenerife, the US and the UK, are using Diamond, the UK’s world class science institute operating a synchrotron that provides industrial and academic user communities with access to state of the art analytical tools, to investigate Moon rocks recovered during the Apollo Missions in a brand new way.

5 Oct 2018

Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat: Scientists Collaborate for Research on Topological Quantum Matter

Stone was indispensable for the Stone Age, bronze for the Bronze Age and iron for the Iron Age. Quantum matter is equally indispensable for the digital 21st century.

28 Sep 2018

Study Reveals Microscopic Mystery of Black Holes from Viewpoint of Thermodynamics

Since the detection of gravitational waves for the first time by LIGO and VIRGO, black holes, due to their mysterious and elegant peculiarities, have aroused widespread discussions and interests in public.

28 Sep 2018

UMD Team Receives $1 Million NSF Grant to Generate Single Photons from Organic Color-Centers

A team from the University of Maryland has been awarded $1 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop methods for generating single photons at room temperature in semiconducting carbon nanotubes.

28 Sep 2018

Helicon Plasma Thruster: New Technology for Space Debris Removal

The Earth is currently surrounded by debris launched into space over several decades. This space junk can collide with satellites and not only cause damage to spacecraft but also result in further debris being created.

28 Sep 2018

Preventing the Escape of Quantum Information from the Qubit

Although it is possible to utilize the quantum mechanical properties, for instance, in technology and encrypting messages, the drawback is the occasional vanishing of information.

14 Sep 2018

Telescope Maps Cosmic Rays in Large and Small Magellanic Clouds

A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to observe radiation from cosmic rays in two neighbouring galaxies, showing areas of star formation and echoes of past supernovae.

7 Sep 2018

Scientists Find out New Information on the Shape of Coronal Mass Ejections

Researchers revisited old data & found information on the shape of coronal mass ejections that could assist in protecting satellites in space.

3 Sep 2018

Quantum Weirdness in 'Chicken or Egg' Paradox

The “chicken or egg” paradox was first proposed by philosophers in Ancient Greece to describe the problem of determining cause-and-effect.

3 Sep 2018

Studying the Past Could Help Determine Future Space Weather

NASA images / Shutterstock Space weather is as unpredictable as the weather here on Earth – we can forecast what the meteorological conditions are going to be like to a certain point, but beyond that, it&#39...

By Kerry Taylor-Smith 29 Aug 2018