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Explosion Illuminates Invisible Galaxy in the Dark Ages

Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)

More than 12 billion years ago a star exploded, ripping itself apart and blasting its remains outward in twin jets at nearly the speed of light. At its death it...

When fluid dynamics mimic quantum mechanics

Aug 01, 2013 (SPX)

In the early days of quantum physics, in an attempt to explain the wavelike behavior of quantum particles, the French physicist Louis de Broglie proposed what h...

Removing complexity layers from the universe's creation

Jul 30, 2013 (SPX)

Complicated statistical behaviour observed in complex systems such as early universe can often be understood if it is broken down into simpler ones. Two physici...

What if quantum physics worked on a macroscopic level?

Jul 29, 2013 (SPX)

Quantum physics concerns a world of infinitely small things. But for years, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have been attempting...

Rice researchers part of new LHC discovery

Jul 29, 2013 (SPX)

A discovery facilitated by Rice University's contribution to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will impact scientists' search for dark matter in the universe. CER...

Making big 'Schroedinger cats'

Jul 29, 2013 (SPX)

Since Erwin Schroedinger's famous 1935 cat thought experiment, physicists around the globe have tried to create large scale systems to test how the rules of qua...

Elementary Physics in a Single Molecule

Jul 29, 2013 (SPX)

A team of physicists has succeeded in performing an extraordinary experiment: They demonstrated how magnetism that generally manifests itself by a force between...

The limits to galactic growth

Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)

Astronomers have long assumed that when a galaxy produces too many stars too quickly, it greatly reduces its capacity for producing stars in the future. Now, a ...

Protons hop from one water molecule to another given suitable energy conditions

Jul 24, 2013 (SPX)

Protons, as positively charged hydrogen ions, move very rapidly in water from one water molecule to the next, which is why the conductivity of water is relative...

A scientific experiment is able to create a wave that is frozen in time

Jul 23, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) and the University of California - San Diego (UC San Diego) have created, in a laboratory, a static pi...

Wobbly magnetic reconnection speeds up electrons

Jul 22, 2013 (ESA)

Scientists have discovered a missing piece in the puzzle of where high-energy particles in Earth's magnetosphere come from. Using data from ESA's Cluster missio...

Biochemists uphold law of physics

Jul 18, 2013 (SPX)

Experiments by biochemists at the University of California, Davis show for the first time that a law of physics, the ergodic theorem, can be demonstrated by a c...

Australian physicists cast new light on spin-bowling

Jul 17, 2013 (IOP)

As the Ashes series gets underway next week, a pair of brothers from Australia have been exploring the physics behind the spin of a cricket ball While physicist...

Link between quantum physics and game theory found

Jul 17, 2013 (SPX)

While research tends to become very specialized and entire communities of scientists can work on specific topics with only a little overlap between them, physic...

Detection of single photons via quantum entanglement

Jul 15, 2013 (SPX)

Almost 200 years ago, Bavarian physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer discovered dark lines in the sun's spectrum. It was later discovered that these spectral lines ca...

GR20/Amaldi10: Space-time is not the same for everyone

Jul 15, 2013 (SPX)

Before the Big Bang, space-time as we know it did not exist. So how was it born? The process of creating normal space-time from an earlier state dominated by qu...

Archaeological find in Scotland may be world's oldest calendar

Jul 15, 2013 (UPI)

Archaeologists say they've discovered what they believe is the world's oldest lunar calendar in a field in Scotland. Excavations of a field in Aberdeenshire unc...

Using the sun to illuminate a basic mystery of matter

Jul 15, 2013 (SPX)

Antimatter has been detected in solar flares via microwave and magnetic-field data, according to a presentation by NJIT Research Professor of Physics Gregory D....

UK leads the way in race for new temperature definition

Jul 12, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have performed the most accurate measurement yet of the Boltzmann constant. While the impact of such a...

Heat Radiation of Small Objects: Beyond Planck's Equations

Jul 12, 2013 (SPX)

Objects that are smaller than the wavelength of thermal radiation cannot radiate heat efficiently. A generalized theory of thermal radiation has now been experi...