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New theory leads to radiationless revolution

Aug 29, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists have found a radical new way confine electromagnetic energy without it leaking away, akin to throwing a pebble into a pond with no splash. The theory...

Quantum diffraction at a breath of nothing

Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)

The quantum mechanical wave nature of matter is the basis for a number of modern technologies like high resolution electron microscopy, neutron-based studies on...

Antarctic detector firms up cosmic neutrino sighting

Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have sorted through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized det...

Attosecond electron catapult

Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) in Munich studied the interaction of light with tiny glass particles. A team of physicists and chemists fro...

Oxymoronic Black Hole Provides Clues to Growth

Aug 13, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the 6.5-meter Clay Telescope in Chile have identified the smallest supermassive black hole ever detected ...

Astronomers find 'teeny supermassive black hole'

Aug 13, 2015 (SPX)

In a dwarf, disc galaxy 340 million light years away, University of Michigan astronomers have found the smallest black hole ever observed in the center of a gal...

CMR induced in pure lanthanum manganite

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

Colossal magnetoresistance is a property with practical applications in a wide array of electronic tools including magnetic sensors and magnetic RAM. New resear...

Researchers explain why the Greenwich prime meridian moved

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

In 1884, a delegation of international representatives convened in Washington, D.C. to recommend that Earth's prime meridian (the north-south line marking zero ...

Droplets levitate on a cushion of blue light

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers in France have discovered a new way to levitate liquid droplets, which surprisingly also creates a mini light show, with the droplet sparking as it ...

Powerful New Black Hole Probe Arrives at Paranal

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

A new instrument called GRAVITY has been shipped to Chile and successfully assembled and tested at the Paranal Observatory. GRAVITY is a second generation instr...

Engineered bacterium produces 1,3-diaminopropane

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

A Korean research team led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of...

Atomic mass difference solution paves way to the neutrino mass

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

To measure the mass of neutrinos, scientists study radioactive decays in which they are emitted. An essential ingredient is the decay energy which corresponds t...

Copper clusters capture and convert carbon dioxide to make fuel

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

Capture and convert--this is the motto of carbon dioxide reduction, a process that stops the greenhouse gas before it escapes from chimneys and power plants int...

Hubble finds evidence of galaxy star birth regulated by black-hole fountain

Aug 10, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe's largest elliptical galaxies continue making stars long after their peak years of star birth. ...

Fermilab experiment sees neutrino oscillation

Aug 08, 2015 (UPI)

The NOvA experiment at Fermilab is already proving a success. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have reported ...

Molecular trick alters rules of attraction for non-magnetic metals

Aug 07, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists have demonstrated for the first time how to generate magnetism in metals that aren't naturally magnetic, which could end our reliance on some rare an...

Neutron stars strike back at black holes in jet contest

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

Some neutron stars may rival black holes in their ability to accelerate powerful jets of material to nearly the speed of light, astronomers using the Karl G. Ja...

Super star takes on black holes in jet contest

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

A super-dense star formed in the aftermath of a supernova explosion is shooting out powerful jets of material into space, research suggests. In a new study, a t...

World's quietest gas lets physicists hear faint quantum effects

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have cooled a gas to the quietest state ever achieved, hoping to detect faint quantum effects lost in the ...

Scientists offer explanation for electron heat loss in fusion plasma

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

Creating controlled fusion energy entails many challenges, but one of the most basic is heating plasma - hot gas composed of electrons and charged atoms - to ex...