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New approach uses light instead of robots to assemble electronic components
Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)
Optical traps, which use light to hold and move small objects in liquid, are a promising non-contact method for assembling electronic and optical devices. Howev...
Forest of molecular signals in star forming galaxy
Nov 07, 2017 (SPX)
"With its unprecedented resolution and sensitivity, ALMA showed us the detailed structure of the clouds," said Ando, the lead author of the research paper publi...
A strange new world of light
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
These so-called structured beams not only can tell scientists a lot about the physics of light, they have a wide range of applications from super-resolution ima...
Stellar motions in nearby galaxy hint at underlying dark matter
Nov 04, 2017 (ESA)
Our Milky Way galaxy, home to hundreds of billions of stars, is orbited by more than a dozen smaller satellite galaxies. The best known in this swarm, the Large...
GPS satellite atomic clocks on the caseto define dark matter
Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)
A scientific article of the team's work was just published in the journal Nature Communications and just in time for Dark Matter Day, Oct. 31. Dark matter makes...
Physicists describe new dark matter detection strategy
Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)
The new strategy, which is designed to detect interactions between dark matter particles and a tub of superfluid helium, would be sensitive to particles in a mu...
Premature Death of Star is Confirmed by Astronomers
Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)
On analyzing the binary system more closely, they discovered something even more unusual: the white dwarf's existence was prematurely cut off by its companion, ...
Newest dark matter map hints at where astrophysics must go for breakthroughs
Nov 01, 2017 (SPX)
On the one hand, the new picture - taken of the "grown-up" universe, over the latter half of its 13.8-billion-year history - closely agrees with the "baby" pict...
New Insight into Nature's Own Death Star Beams
Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)
The study, which included Dr. Vik Dhillon from the University's Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been investigating the mysterious cosmic phenomena - kn...
NASA sounding rocket probes the dark regions of space
Oct 30, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists plan to launch a sounding rocket for a fifteen-minute flight Oct. 30, 2017, equipped with special ultraviolet optics, which they hope will shed light...
James Webb Space Telescope's Laser-Focused Sight
Oct 27, 2017 (SPX)
In orbit at Earth's second Lagrange point (L2), far from the help of a terrestrial doctor, Webb will use its near-infrared camera (NIRCam) instrument to help al...
Spots on supergiant star drive spirals in stellar wind
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
Massive stars are responsible for producing the heavy elements that make up all life on Earth. At the end of their lives they scatter the material into interste...
New evidence for dark matter makes it even more exotic
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
But after studying ten galaxy clusters, David Harvey at EPFL's Laboratory of Astrophysics and his colleagues in France and the UK have discovered that the densi...
Scientists write 'traps' for light with tiny ink droplets
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
The printing-based approach, jointly developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, combines high-resolution inkj...
Revealing Galactic Secrets
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
The turbulent past of this much-studied galaxy has left it with a delicate structure of loops, arcs and rings that astronomers have now imaged in greater detail...
Artificial Intelligence Finds 56 New Gravitational Lens Candidates
Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)
When a galaxy is hidden behind another galaxy, we can sometimes see the hidden one around the front system. This phenomenon is called a gravitational lens, beca...
Experiment Provides Deeper Look into the Nature of Neutrinos
Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)
This new result, published online at arXiv.org and submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters, is based on two months of data collected from the full dete...
Gamma rays will reach beyond the limits of light
Oct 23, 2017 (SPX)
"When we exceed the limit of what is currently possible, we can see deeper into the basic elements of nature. We can dive into the deepest part of the atomic nu...
Self-portrait of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope marks critical test
Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)
During Webb's extensive cryogenic testing, engineers checked the alignment of all the telescope optics and demonstrated the individual primary mirror segments c...
Deep Space Communications via Faraway Photons
Oct 20, 2017 (JPL)
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) package aboard NASA's Psyche mission utilizes photons - the fundamental particle of visible light - to transmit mor...
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