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IceCube finds Earth can block high-energy particles from nuclear reactions

Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)

The experiment was achieved with the IceCube detector, an array of 5,160 basketball-sized sensors frozen deep within a cubic kilometer of very clear ice near th...

Dark matter and dark energy: do they really exist?

Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)

They have also posited the existence of a "dark energy" that is more powerful than gravitational attraction. These two hypotheses, it has been argued, account f...

Measuring neutron star sizes by using thermonuclear explosion models

Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)

A new method for measuring neutron star size was developed in a study led by a high-energy astrophysics research group at the University of Turku, Finland. The ...

Lightning, with a chance of antimatter

Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)

This scene, while familiar to anyone and repeated constantly across the planet, is not without a feeling of mystery. But now that mystery has deepened, with the...

Astronomers reveal nearby stars that are among the oldest in our galaxy

Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)

Just like humans, stars have a life span: birth, youth, adulthood, senior and death. This study focused on old or "senior citizen" stars, also known as cool sub...

Researchers tunnel to a new light source

Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)

In the October 24, 2017 issue of Light: Science and Applications, currently online, the Ohio State University researchers, with scientists at Wright State Unive...

Webb Telescope completes final cryogenic test

Nov 21, 2017 (SPX)

The historic chamber's massive door opening brings to a close about 100 days of testing for Webb, a significant milestone in the telescope's journey to the laun...

Developing the ABCs for exploiting new phenomena in light-matter interactions

Nov 21, 2017 (SPX)

Because of these intricate internal and surface structures, new properties have emerged, some exhibiting behavior that has resulted in rewriting long-understood...

The anatomy of a cosmic snake reveals the structure of distant galaxies

Nov 20, 2017 (SPX)

But observations of distant galaxies have questioned this picture, the size and mass of these distant stellar nurseries largely exceeding that of their local co...

Next Generation Astronomical Survey To Map The Entire Sky

Nov 20, 2017 (SPX)

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has been one of the most-successful and influential surveys in the history of astronomy, creating the most-detailed three-dimension...

Hunt for dark matter is narrowed by new University of Sussex research

Nov 20, 2017 (SPX)

The data were collected by an international consortium, the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment (nEDM) Collaboration, whose experiment is based at the Paul Scherrer ...

Neutron star with strong magnetic field may still launch jets

Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)

Jets are energy rich plasma streams that are blown out of black holes or neutron stars at high speed. Jets have been known for decades, but so far no jets have ...

Zwicky Transient Facility sees First Light

Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)

The camera is the centerpiece of a new automated sky survey project called the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), based at Caltech's Palomar Observatory near San ...

How physicists turned Antarctica into particle detector

Nov 16, 2017 (Sputnik)

Every year researchers from the University of Hawaii, NASA, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI and many other research centers around the world, set off...

Blue lighting helps us relax faster than white lighting

Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)

Said stress is a kind of short-term stress (acute stress) that occurs during social or interpersonal relationships, for example while arguing with a friend or w...

Contracting white dwarf observed for the first time

Nov 15, 2017 (SPX)

"Thanks to this discovery, astrophysicists will be able to study and evaluate the evolution patterns of young white dwarfs - and successfully look for similar s...

Clash of Titan Galaxies - 13 Billion Years Ago

Nov 15, 2017 (SPX)

"Discovering a hyper-luminous starburst galaxy is an extraordinary feat, but discovering two - this close to each other - is amazing," said Dominik Riechers, as...

Hitomi mission glimpses cosmic 'recipe' for the nearby universe

Nov 15, 2017 (SPX)

Before its brief mission ended unexpectedly in March 2016, Japan's Hitomi X-ray observatory captured exceptional information about the motions of hot gas in the...

Murchison Widefield Array Radio Telescope completes major milestone

Nov 15, 2017 (SPX)

In an operation that has taken nearly 16 months, 128 new antenna stations have been assembled on the MWA site by a team of MWA operations staff, students from C...

First targets chosen for Webb Space Telescope

Nov 14, 2017 (ESA)

Thirteen "early release" programmes were chosen from more than 100 proposals after a competitive peer-review selection process within the astronomical community...