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Recreating a heavenly chorus of plasma waves on Earth

Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)

Recent experiments at the Large Plasma Device (LAPD) at the University of California, Los Angeles, have successfully excited elusive plasma waves, known as whis...

Measurement of Hubble constant questioned by Nobel laureate Riess' team

Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)

In 1920's Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, showed that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth, known as Hubble's l...

UMD discovery could enable portable particle accelerators

Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)

Conventional particle accelerators are typically big machines that occupy a lot of space. Even at more modest energies, such as that used for cancer therapy and...

Galileo satellites set for year-long Einstein experiment

Nov 10, 2015 (ESA)

Europe's fifth and sixth Galileo satellites - subject to complex salvage manoeuvres following their launch last year into incorrect orbits - will help to perfor...

Antimatter not so different after all

Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)

Due to the diligence of a Rice University student and his calculations, humanity now knows a little more about the universe. Kefeng Xin, a graduate student at R...

ALCF helps tackle the Large Hadron Collider's big data challenge

Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)

Argonne physicists are using Mira to perform simulations of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments with a leadership-class supercomputer for the first time, sh...

Have scientists found evidence of a parallel universe?

Nov 04, 2015 (UPI)

Caltech cosmologist Ranga-Ram Chary thinks he may have found evidence of a parallel universe. In a new study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, Chary sugg...

Calcium-48's 'neutron skin' thinner than previously thought

Nov 03, 2015 (SPX)

An international team led by Gaute Hagen of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used America's most powerful supercomputer, Titan, to compu...

Birth of universe modeled in massive data simulation

Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers are sifting through an avalanche of data produced by one of the largest cosmological simulations ever performed, led by scientists at the U.S. Depar...

Halo satellite will search for 'missing' normal matter

Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)

Studies of the early universe show that 5 percent of all mass and energy should be in normal matter-that is, the visible stuff of the universe, composed of prot...

May the 5th force be with you

Oct 29, 2015 (SPX)

Discovering possible new forces in nature is no mean task. The discovery of gravity linked to Newton's arguably apocryphal apple experiment has remained anchore...

Physics of booming and burping sand dunes revealed

Oct 29, 2015 (SPX)

Avalanching sand from dune faces in Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert can trigger loud, rumbling "booming" or short bursts of "burping" sounds - ...

China to start work on turbo-charged super-collider by 2020: report

Oct 29, 2015 (AFP)

China will begin work on the world's largest super-collider in 2020, a mega-machine aimed at increasing understanding of the elusive Higgs boson, state-run medi...

Film in 4-D with ultrashort electron pulses

Oct 29, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) in Munich shorten electron pulses down to 30 femtoseconds duration. This enables them to gain detailed in...

Researchers create better algorithm for simulating particles in Fermi Sea

Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)

A North Carolina State University physicist and his German colleagues have created a new, more precise algorithm for simulating particle interactions when a sin...

Black Hole Has Major Flare

Oct 28, 2015 (JPL)

The baffling and strange behaviors of black holes have become somewhat less mysterious recently, with new observations from NASA's Explorer missions Swift and t...

Physicists learn how to control the movement of electrons in a molecule

Oct 26, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers have, for the first time, been able to track the movement of an electron in a molecule in real time and have demonstrated that these processes can b...

Hubble spies Big Bang frontiers

Oct 23, 2015 (ESA)

Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest know...

Historic Delft experiments tests Einstein's 'God does not play dice' theory

Oct 22, 2015 (SPX)

Random number generators developed at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, by the groups of ICREA Professors Morgan W. Mitchell and Valerio Pruneri, playe...

Astronomers catch a black hole shredding a star to pieces

Oct 22, 2015 (SPX)

When a star comes too close to a black hole, the intense gravity of the black hole results in tidal forces that can rip the star apart. In these events, called ...