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Sensitive XENON100 Detector Helps Know a Lot More About What Dark Matter is Not

Results of the XENON100 experiment are a bright spot in the search for dark matter.

21 Aug 2015

Dark Matter Particles May Annihilate into Dark Radiation When They Collide

Physicists suggest a new way to look for dark matter: They beleive that dark matter particles annihilate into so-called dark radiation when they collide. If true, then we should be able to detect the signals from this radiation.

21 Aug 2015

Low-Density Conditions of Space Reproduced to Measure Interaction of Dark Energy with Normal Matter

Besides the atoms that make up our bodies and all of the objects we encounter in everyday life, the universe also contains mysterious dark matter and dark energy. The latter, which causes galaxies to accelerate away from one another, constitutes the majority of the universe’s energy and mass.

21 Aug 2015

Powerful New Evidence Supports 2013 Observations of Existence of Cosmic Neutrinos

Sorting through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized detector each year, researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have gathered powerful new evidence in support of 2013 observations confirming the existence of cosmic neutrinos.

21 Aug 2015

Collisions, Accumulation of Pebbles may have led to Formation of Gas Giant Planets

Queen's University researcher Martin Duncan has co-authored a study that solves the mystery of how gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn formed in the early solar system.

20 Aug 2015

Stars Born Within IC 4651 Cluster Display Wide Variety of Characteristics

Open star clusters like the one seen here are not just perfect subjects for pretty pictures. Most stars form within clusters and these clusters can be used by astronomers as laboratories to study how stars evolve and die.

20 Aug 2015

Most Precise Measurement of Energy Generated Within a Large Portion of Space

An international team of astronomers, including a Bristol professor and several Bristol alumni, studying more than 200 000 galaxies, has measured the energy generated within a large portion of space more precisely than ever before.

20 Aug 2015

Understanding the Causes of Type Ia Supernovae May Help Unravel Dynamics of Stars, Galaxies

A longstanding mystery about the tiny stars that let loose powerful explosions known as Type Ia supernovae might finally be solved.

20 Aug 2015

New Laser Cooling Method Based on the Interference of Matter Waves

Researchers from the University of Southampton have demonstrated for the first time a new laser cooling method, based upon the interference of matter waves, that could be used to cool molecules.

20 Aug 2015

Finer Points of Fluid Dynamics Explored at International Space Station

Revolution Lighting Technologies, a leader in advanced LED lighting technology, announced today that it has completed lighting retrofits across fifty New Jersey school systems installing more than 500,000 of its Seesmart LED tubes to date. This program will yield significant cost savings, exceeding $3.3M annually, to achieve an average project payback of less than three years.

20 Aug 2015

Researchers Simulate Clusters of Neutrons to Better Understand Their Properties

Neutrons are notoriously slippery subatomic particles. On their own, they break down in a matter of minutes, but within the confines of the atom’s nucleus, neutrons are a foundational piece of nearly all known types of matter in the universe.

19 Aug 2015

Hydrogen Sulfide Becomes Superconductive at -70°C Under High Pressure

Up until now, no material has been able to conduct current with no resistance at such high temperatures: Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz observed that hydrogen sulfide becomes superconductive at minus 70 degree Celsius—when the substance is placed under a pressure of 1.5 million bar. This corresponds to half of the pressure of the earth’s core.

19 Aug 2015

Christopher Pethick of Niels Bohr Institute Honored with Feenberg Medal 2015

Christopher Pethick, Professor at the Niels Bohr International Academy and Nordita has received the Feenberg Medal 2015.

19 Aug 2015

Precision Record for Measuring Symmetry Between Matter and Antimatter

The existence of our world is anything but self-evident. The Big Bang created matter and antimatter in equal measure. Why only matter, which makes up the celestial bodies in the universe, ultimately remained behind, is the focus of a Japanese-German cooperative project called BASE, which includes researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and other institutions.

19 Aug 2015

New Details About What May Have Started Earliest Phases of Planet Formation

New work from Carnegie's Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is published by The Astrophysical Journal. For decades, it's been hypothesized that our Solar System's genesis was initiated by a shock wave from a supernova.

19 Aug 2015

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Sensitive XENON100 Detector Helps Know a Lot More About What Dark Matter is Not

Dark Matter Particles May Annihilate into Dark Radiation When They Collide

Low-Density Conditions of Space Reproduced to Measure Interaction of Dark Energy with Normal Matter

Powerful New Evidence Supports 2013 Observations of Existence of Cosmic Neutrinos

Collisions, Accumulation of Pebbles may have led to Formation of Gas Giant Planets

Stars Born Within IC 4651 Cluster Display Wide Variety of Characteristics

Most Precise Measurement of Energy Generated Within a Large Portion of Space

Understanding the Causes of Type Ia Supernovae May Help Unravel Dynamics of Stars, Galaxies

New Laser Cooling Method Based on the Interference of Matter Waves

Finer Points of Fluid Dynamics Explored at International Space Station

Researchers Simulate Clusters of Neutrons to Better Understand Their Properties

Hydrogen Sulfide Becomes Superconductive at -70°C Under High Pressure

Christopher Pethick of Niels Bohr Institute Honored with Feenberg Medal 2015

Precision Record for Measuring Symmetry Between Matter and Antimatter

New Details About What May Have Started Earliest Phases of Planet Formation

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