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Scientists Devise Identical Photons From Widely-Dispersed Sources

Identical light particles (photons) are critical for several quantum-physics-based technologies.

14 Jun 2022

Repeated Radio Eruption Poses New Questions

Astronomers have discovered just the second example of a very active, repeated Fast Radio Burst (FRB) with a limited source of weaker but sustained radio emission between bursts.

9 Jun 2022

Black Holes Aided Quenching Star Formation in the Early Universe

While some galaxies continue to create stars, others die out and live a more passive existence. What caused these galaxies to stop creating stars at such a young age is unknown, not the least since they are so far away and dim that they go unnoticed.

2 Jun 2022

New Laser Discovery Helps Identify and Understand the Data Transported By Gravitational Waves

The University of Western Australia’s gravitational-wave physicists have led the creation of a new laser mode sensor with unparalleled precision that will be used to investigate the interiors of neutron stars and test general relativity’s fundamental constraints.

31 May 2022

Scientists Demystify Origins of Dunes on Saturn's Largest Moon

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is an enigma with scientists unclear on how its vast expanses of dunes developed.

19 May 2022

New Study Describes ZTF J1406+1222 — A New Possible Black Widow Star

A fast spinning dead star known as a pulsar attacks its orbiting partner with radiation, gradually evaporating it in black widow star systems.

5 May 2022

Advancement in Spacecraft Navigation — Researchers Use X-Rays from Dead Stars

Pulsars are the magnetically charged remnants of a shattered neutron star that spin at speeds ranging from one to hundreds of rotations per second.

4 May 2022

CSIRO Telescope Dons ‘Sunglasses’ to Find Brightest Ever Pulsar

An international research team, including scientists at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have used a new observation technique to discover the brightest extragalactic pulsar known, and it could even be the most luminous one ever found.

3 May 2022

New Explosive Compound Emerges from Strange World of High-pressure Chemistry

Researchers from Skoltech, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Howard University, the University of Chicago, and the CAS Institute of Solid State Physics have synthesized K2N6, an exotic compound containing N6 groups and packing explosive amounts of energy.

22 Apr 2022