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Spin-Filtering Could be the Key to Faster, Energy-Efficient Switching in Future Spintronics

Spin-filtering could be the key to faster, more energy-efficient switching in future spintronic technology, allowing the detection of spin by electrical rather than magnetic means.

7 Dec 2020

DUNE Collaboration Publishes First Scientific Article Using ProtoDUNE Detector

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) partnership has successfully published their first scientific article based on information obtained with the ProtoDUNE single-phase detector situated at CERN’s Neutrino Platform.

7 Dec 2020

Study Reveals Accelerated Electrons Associated with Cosmic Rays

The Voyager spacecraft were launched in space before about 40 years. Since then, they have been continuously making discoveries.

4 Dec 2020

Large-Scale Survey Reveals Wide Range of Structures Within the Milky Way

Scientists from Cardiff University have helped produce a brand-new, three-dimensional survey of our galaxy, allowing them to peer into the inner structure and observe its star-forming processes in unprecedented detail.

4 Dec 2020

Astronomers Find Unprecedented Fading of Stingray Nebula

Stars are rather patient. They can live for billions of years, and they typically make slow transitions -- sometimes over many millions of years -- between the different stages of their lives.

4 Dec 2020

Scientists Measure Elusive Particles that Cannot be Observed Using Light

For the first time, researchers have directly observed and quantified mysterious particles, known as dark excitons, that otherwise cannot be visualized by light.

4 Dec 2020

Supernova can Provide a Huge Boost for Most Important Reactions in the Universe

Michigan State University (MSU) researchers have discovered that one of the most important reactions in the universe can get a huge and unexpected boost inside exploding stars known as supernovae.

3 Dec 2020

New Analysis Reveals How Asteroids Formed During Early Years of the Solar System

One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 million-mile journey by smashing into the trunk of a red Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. The car's owner reported that the 30-pound remnant of the earliest days of our solar system was still warm and smelled of sulfur.

3 Dec 2020

Cosmological Simulations Accurately Depict How Neutrinos Shape the Universe

The effect that nearly massless, subatomic particles called neutrinos have on the formation of galaxies has long been a cosmological mystery--one that physicists have sought to measure since discovering the particles in 1956.

3 Dec 2020

Study Reports a Hint of New Physics in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Using Planck data from the cosmic microwave background radiation, an international team of researchers has observed a hint of new physics. The team developed a new method to measure the polarization angle of the ancient light by calibrating it with dust emission from our own Milky Way.

3 Dec 2020