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New Study Questions Fundamental Principle of Cosmology

Regardless of the location, the same rules are applicable to any place in space: this basic principle is used for numerous calculations of astrophysics.

9 Apr 2020

Using In-Situ Liquid TEM to Track Atomic Pathways of Platinum-Containing Core-Shell Structures

Recently, platinum-containing core-shell structures with tunable magnetic and catalytic properties have attracted intensive attentions and offered a wide range of applications. To date, their synthetic routes are mostly based on galvanic replacement, co-reduction, thermal decomposition and seed-mediated method.

9 Apr 2020

Earth’s Magnetic Field Origins Still Remain a Mystery

Microscopic minerals excavated from an ancient outcrop of Jack Hills, in Western Australia, have been the subject of intense geological study, as they seem to bear traces of the Earth's magnetic field reaching as far back as 4.2 billion years ago.

9 Apr 2020

Researchers Resolve Dispersion of Complex Quantum Many-Body States

In 1931, the theoretical physicist Hans Bethe had predicted complex magnon bound states in a one-dimensional (1D) quantum magnetic model.

8 Apr 2020

Photographic Evidence of Relativistic Jet Emerging from Colliding Galaxies

In association with international collaborators, a team of researchers from the College of Science at Clemson University has reported the first conclusive detection of a relativistic jet emanating from a pair of colliding galaxies.

8 Apr 2020

Gamma-Ray Bursts Powered by Collapse of Star’s Magnetic Field

When a black hole is formed by the collapse of a massive star in a faraway galaxy, two enormous jets of light-emitting plasma are discharged from its core.

8 Apr 2020

Existence of Magnetic Monopoles in Metallic Compound

Although magnetic monopoles are not viable in reality, at low temperatures, specific crystals can consist of what are called quasi-particles that act as magnetic monopoles.

8 Apr 2020

New Study Could Help Establish the Existence of Quantum Spin Liquids

Physicists at the University of Arkansas have made a recent discovery, which could be helpful to scientists in determining the existence of quantum spin liquids—a new state of matter.

7 Apr 2020

Milky Way’s Satellite Galaxies Reveal Connection Between Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation

Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might have smaller satellite galaxies of their own.

7 Apr 2020

Researchers Peer Inner-Workings of an Unusual Type of Superconductor

A research team from the University of Illinois has collaborated with scientists to investigate the inner-workings of a strange type of superconductor—uranium ditelluride (UTe2).

6 Apr 2020