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Gravitational Waves Could Provide Clear Evidence for Creation of Quark-Gluon Plasma

Neutron stars are among the densest objects in the universe. If our Sun, with its radius of 700,000 kilometres were a neutron star, its mass would be condensed into an almost perfect sphere with a radius of around 12 kilometers.

4 May 2020

NASA's Webb Telescope to Unravel Mystery of Bustling Stellar Nursery

A bustling stellar nursery in the picturesque Orion Nebula will be a subject of study for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2021.

4 May 2020

Machine Learning Speeds Up Tuning Operations of Particle Accelerator

Every year, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) at the Department of Energy is visited by scientists across the world to carry out scores of experiments in energy research, biology, materials science, and chemistry at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser.

30 Apr 2020

Rare Images Shed New Light on Formation of Planetary Systems

An international team of astronomers has captured fifteen images of the inner rims of planet-forming disks located hundreds of light years away.

30 Apr 2020

New Data Challenges Model of Cosmology on Universe’s Mass

Under the guidance of Professor Hendrik Hildebrandt, cosmologists from Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum (RUB) have gained a new understanding of the structure and density of matter in the Universe.

29 Apr 2020

Optimal Use of RF Waves can Help Control Fusion Reactions

A study performed by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University points toward better regulation of the vexing magnetic islands in ITER—the international tokamak being constructed in France—and also other forthcoming fusion facilities that cannot permit massive disruptions.

29 Apr 2020

Technique to Reduce Quantum Noise in Gravitational Detectors

A new technique for minimizing quantum noise in detectors has been developed by scientists from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).

29 Apr 2020

Researchers Discover Nitrogen-Bearing Organic Molecules in Martian Meteorites

A research team including research scientist Atsuko Kobayashi from the Earth-Life Science Institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and research scientist Mizuho Koike from the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, have found nitrogen-bearing organic material in carbonate minerals in a Martian meteorite.

29 Apr 2020

Tapping Properties of Coupled Magnetic Materials for Quantum Applications

Researchers have started to investigate the behavior of magnetic and electronic spins, particularly their resonant excitations, as information carriers in an attempt to find new methods to process and transmit data.

28 Apr 2020

New Method to Observe Quantum Correlations in Exciton-Polariton System

A study, headed by Monash University, has devised a new method to directly visualize the associated, many-body states present in an exciton-polariton system that extends beyond the limitations of the traditional concepts.

28 Apr 2020