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Study Offers Possible Explanations for Apparent Change in the Hubble Constant

An international research team analyzed a database of more than 1000 supernova explosions and found that models for the expansion of the Universe best match the data when a new time dependent variation is introduced.

18 May 2021

Scarcity of Exoplanets Could Explain the Mystery of Missing Worlds

There's been a breakthrough in the case of the missing planets. While planet-hunting missions have discovered thousands of worlds orbiting distant stars, there's a severe scarcity of exoplanets that measure between 1.5 and two times Earth's radius.

18 May 2021

New Study Provides Best Evidence of How the Early Milky Way Came Together

New research provides the best evidence to date into the timing of how our early Milky Way came together, including the merger with a key satellite galaxy.

18 May 2021

Scientists Date Some of the Oldest Stars in Milky Way Galaxy

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have successfully dated some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way galaxy with unmatched precision. They achieved this by combining data from oscillations of the stars with data on their chemical composition.

18 May 2021

Study Sheds Light on Debate Concerning Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Quantum mechanics is well known for its indeterminism but probabilities can generally be used to measure one’s uncertainty about upcoming observations.

17 May 2021

Scientists Unravel Optical Response of Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Multiple Quantum Wells

A team of researchers at the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, in collaboration with Bielefeld University and Technical University Braunschweig in Germany, came closer to unraveling the complicated optical response of wide-bandgap semiconductor multiple quantum wells and how atomic-scale lattice vibration can generate free space terahertz emission.

11 May 2021