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Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)

Neuroscientists have long known that brain cells communicate with each other through the release of tiny bubbles packed with neurotransmitters--a fleet of vesse...

Nuclear puzzle may be clue to fifth force

Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)

In a new paper, University of California, Riverside theoretical physicist Flip Tanedo and his collaborators have made new progress towards unravelling a mystery...

How we escaped from the Big Bang

Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)

Associate Professor Dr Joan Vaccaro, of Griffith's Centre for Quantum Dynamics, has solved an anomaly of conventional physics and shown that a mysterious effect...

New material discovery allows study of elusive Weyl fermion

Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered a new type of Weyl semimetal, a material that opens the way for further study of ...

Cosmology: Lore of lonely regions

Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)

A research group led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Unversitaet (LMU) in Munich physicist Nico Hamaus is calculating the dynamics of cosmic voids and deriving new insigh...

UCI physicists confirm possible discovery of fifth force of nature

Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)

Recent findings indicating the possible discovery of a previously unknown subatomic particle may be evidence of a fifth fundamental force of nature, according t...

Much ado about nothing: Astronomers use empty space to study the universe

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers who are looking for new ways to probe the nature of gravity and dark energy in the universe have adopted a new strategy: looking at what's not there...

New study confirms possibility of fifth force of nature

Aug 15, 2016 (UPI)

New research confirms the science behind a previous study suggesting the existence of a fifth force of nature. Last year, a group of Hungarian researchers repor...

A Black Hole Story Told by a Cosmic Blob and Bubble

Aug 12, 2016 (SPX)

Two cosmic structures show evidence for a remarkable change in behavior of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray O...

1400 km of optical fiber connect optical clocks in France and Germany

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

In the past few years, optical atomic clocks have made spectacular progress, becoming 100 times more precise than the best caesium clocks. So far, their precisi...

Cosmic blob and bubble tell story of supermassive black hole

Aug 10, 2016 (UPI)

Two structures in a faraway galaxy, a cosmic blob and a gas bubble, are helping scientists understand the history of a supermassive black hole. It's an exercise...

Do Black Holes Have a Back Door

Aug 09, 2016 (SPX)

One of the biggest problems when studying black holes is that the laws of physics as we know them cease to apply in their deepest regions. Large quantities of m...

Bump in LHC data is not a new particle, scientists announce

Aug 05, 2016 (UPI)

Physicists who thought they discovered a new particle, which would explain holes in theories of how the universe works, announced at a conference Friday that th...

Bridging the gap between the quantum and classical worlds

Aug 05, 2016 (SPX)

In the quantum world, physicists study the tiny particles that make up our classical world - neutrons, electrons, photons - either one at a time or in small num...

Proton pinball on the catalyst

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

The function of fuel cells is to transform chemical energy into electricity through a chemical reaction. When this technology is mature enough it will be possib...

Scientists model the 'flicker' of gluons in subatomic smashups

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists exploring the dynamic behavior of particles emerging from subatomic smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider are increasingly interested in th...

The discovery of new emission lines from highly charged heavy ions

Aug 03, 2016 (SPX)

Professors Chihiro Suzuki and Izumi Murakami's research group at the National Institute for Fusion Science, together with Professor Fumihiro Koike of Sophia Uni...

PPPL applies quantum theory and Einstein's special relativity to plasma physics

Aug 02, 2016 (SPX)

Among the intriguing issues in plasma physics are those surrounding X-ray pulsars - collapsed stars that orbit around a cosmic companion and beam light at regul...

Knots in chaotic waves

Aug 02, 2016 (SPX)

New research, using computer models of wave chaos, has shown that three-dimensional tangled vortex filaments can in fact be knotted in many highly complex ways....

Physicist offers leading theory about mysterious Large Hadron Collider excess

Jul 29, 2016 (SPX)

In December of last year, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe announced startling results hinting at the existence of an undiscovered subatomic pa...