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NASA explains why June 30 will get extra second

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

The day will officially be a bit longer than usual on Tuesday, June 30, 2015, because an extra second, or "leap" second, will be added. "Earth's rotation is gra...

Unexpectedly little black-hole monsters rapidly suck up surrounding matter

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

Using the Subaru Telescope, researchers at the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Russia and Kyoto University in Japan have found evidence that enigmatic obje...

Opening a new route to photonics

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

A new route to ultrahigh density, ultracompact integrated photonic circuitry has been discovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (...

New model of cosmic stickiness favors 'Big Rip' demise of universe

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

The universe can be a very sticky place, but just how sticky is a matter of debate. That is because for decades cosmologists have had trouble reconciling the cl...

Is the Universe Ringing Like a Crystal Glass

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

Many know the phrase "the big bang theory." There's even a top television comedy series with that as its title. According to scientists, the universe began with...

X-raying ion channels

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

"In this field, x-ray crystallography is considered the ultimate form of evidence: if something is demonstrated with this technique, then it just has to be true...

How the brightest lights in the universe 'flicker'

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

Supermassive black holes pull in gas with great force from their surroundings. As the gas rotates around the black hole, it becomes progressively hotter through...

New light in terahertz window

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

Yet it has the potential for numerous applications. In Physical Review Letters, scientists at Julich together with their international partners present a new co...

Monster black hole wakes up after 26 years

Jun 28, 2015 (ESA)

Over the past week, ESA's Integral satellite has been observing an exceptional outburst of high-energy light produced by a black hole that is devouring material...

Giving atoms their marching orders

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

Chemistry professor Linda Shimizu oversees a series of crowd-pleasing chemistry demonstrations in middle and high schools throughout central South Carolina ever...

The quantum spin Hall effect is a fundamental property of light

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

In a paper that crystalizes knowledge from a variety of experiments and theoretical developments, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science i...

Destructive power of bubbles could lead to new industrial applications

Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)

Virginia Tech engineers have shed light on what happens to a nearby particle when bubbles burst. Sunghwan Jung, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering...

Aalto University researchers predicted existence of new quantum matter theoretically

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Finland's Aalto University researchers have succeeded to predict, in theory, that superconducting surfaces can become topological superconductors when magnetic ...

Mass of strange atomic nucleus measured with very high precision

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

An international team of physicists working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany has measured the mass of...

NASA's Hubble sees the 'teenage years' of quasars

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope's infrared vision to uncover the mysterious early formative years of quasars, the brightest objects in the univ...

ALMA weighs supermassive black hole at center of distant spiral galaxy

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Supermassive black holes lurk at the center of every large galaxy. These cosmic behemoths can be millions to billions of times more massive than the Sun. Determ...

VLA reveals 'bashful' black hole in neighboring galaxy

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Thanks to the extraordinary sensitivity of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have detected what they believe is the long-sought radio emiss...

Scientists are first to see elements transform at atomic scale

Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)

Chemists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences, collaborating with PerkinElmer and UCL (University College London), have witnessed atoms of one chem...

Scientists tune X-rays with tiny mirrors

Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)

The secret of X-ray science - like so much else - is in the timing. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have created...

Slip sliding away: Graphene and diamonds prove a slippery combination

Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found a way to use tiny diamonds and graphene to give friction the slip, creating...