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Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)

A research group led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Unversitaet (LMU) in Munich physicist Nico Hamaus is calculating the dynamics of cosmic voids and deriving new insigh...

Much ado about nothing: Astronomers use empty space to study the universe

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers who are looking for new ways to probe the nature of gravity and dark energy in the universe have adopted a new strategy: looking at what's not there...

New study confirms possibility of fifth force of nature

Aug 15, 2016 (UPI)

New research confirms the science behind a previous study suggesting the existence of a fifth force of nature. Last year, a group of Hungarian researchers repor...

A Black Hole Story Told by a Cosmic Blob and Bubble

Aug 12, 2016 (SPX)

Two cosmic structures show evidence for a remarkable change in behavior of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray O...

Cosmic blob and bubble tell story of supermassive black hole

Aug 10, 2016 (UPI)

Two structures in a faraway galaxy, a cosmic blob and a gas bubble, are helping scientists understand the history of a supermassive black hole. It's an exercise...

1400 km of optical fiber connect optical clocks in France and Germany

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

In the past few years, optical atomic clocks have made spectacular progress, becoming 100 times more precise than the best caesium clocks. So far, their precisi...

Do Black Holes Have a Back Door

Aug 09, 2016 (SPX)

One of the biggest problems when studying black holes is that the laws of physics as we know them cease to apply in their deepest regions. Large quantities of m...

Bump in LHC data is not a new particle, scientists announce

Aug 05, 2016 (UPI)

Physicists who thought they discovered a new particle, which would explain holes in theories of how the universe works, announced at a conference Friday that th...

Bridging the gap between the quantum and classical worlds

Aug 05, 2016 (SPX)

In the quantum world, physicists study the tiny particles that make up our classical world - neutrons, electrons, photons - either one at a time or in small num...

Proton pinball on the catalyst

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

The function of fuel cells is to transform chemical energy into electricity through a chemical reaction. When this technology is mature enough it will be possib...

Scientists model the 'flicker' of gluons in subatomic smashups

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists exploring the dynamic behavior of particles emerging from subatomic smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider are increasingly interested in th...

The discovery of new emission lines from highly charged heavy ions

Aug 03, 2016 (SPX)

Professors Chihiro Suzuki and Izumi Murakami's research group at the National Institute for Fusion Science, together with Professor Fumihiro Koike of Sophia Uni...

PPPL applies quantum theory and Einstein's special relativity to plasma physics

Aug 02, 2016 (SPX)

Among the intriguing issues in plasma physics are those surrounding X-ray pulsars - collapsed stars that orbit around a cosmic companion and beam light at regul...

Knots in chaotic waves

Aug 02, 2016 (SPX)

New research, using computer models of wave chaos, has shown that three-dimensional tangled vortex filaments can in fact be knotted in many highly complex ways....

International team of scientists unveils fundamental properties of spin Seebeck effect

Jul 29, 2016 (SPX)

Thermoelectric effects are a fundamental building block for the conception and development of new processes for information processing. They enable to re-use wa...

Physicist offers leading theory about mysterious Large Hadron Collider excess

Jul 29, 2016 (SPX)

In December of last year, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe announced startling results hinting at the existence of an undiscovered subatomic pa...

Chorus of Black Holes Sings in X-Rays

Jul 29, 2016 (JPL)

Supermassive black holes in the universe are like a raucous choir singing in the language of X-rays. When black holes pull in surrounding matter, they let out p...

Ancient eye in the sky

Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)

Light from a distant galaxy can be strongly bent by the gravitational influence of a foreground galaxy. That effect is called strong gravitational lensing. Norm...

Mapping electromagnetic waveforms

Jul 27, 2016 (SPX)

Munich physicists have developed a novel electron microscope that can visualize electromagnetic fields oscillating at frequencies of billions of cycles per seco...

Supermassive and Supersonic - Black Hole Studied with Sardinia Radio Telescope

Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)

Using the brand-new Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT), a giant parabolic dish of 64 meters diameter, a team of astronomers from the Italian National Institute for ...