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Our Galaxy May Have Grown From Inside-Out

A breakthrough using data from the Gaia-ESO project has provided evidence backing up theoretically predicted divisions in the chemical composition of the stars that make up the Milky Way's disc – the vast collection of giant gas clouds and billions of stars that give our Galaxy its 'flying saucer' shape.

20 Jan 2014

Quasar Helps Image Cosmic Web

Cosmologists generally believe that matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures of gas known as the cosmic web.

20 Jan 2014

Rosetta to Wake Up and Monitor Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Comets are among the most beautiful and least understood nomads of the night sky. To date, half a dozen of these most heavenly of heavenly bodies have been visited by spacecraft in an attempt to unlock their secrets.

20 Jan 2014

Researchers Soften Atomic Bonds in a Buckyball

Rice University scientists have found they can control the bonds between atoms in a molecule.

17 Jan 2014

MAXI's Watchful Eye Helps See the Cosmic Dance of Life and Death for Stars

Look up at the night sky ... do you see it? The stars of the cosmos bursting in magnificent explosions of death and rebirth! No? Well, then maybe you are not looking through the "eyes" of the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) investigation, mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station Kibo module.

17 Jan 2014

Theory of Consciousness Corroborated by Discovery of Quantum Vibrations in 'Microtubules'

A review and update of a controversial 20-year-old theory of consciousness published in Physics of Life Reviews claims that consciousness derives from deeper level, finer scale activities inside brain neurons. The recent discovery of quantum vibrations in "microtubules" inside brain neurons corroborates this theory, according to review authors Stuart Hameroff and Sir Roger Penrose.

17 Jan 2014

Sodium Bismuthate Can Exist as a Form of Quantum Matter

The discovery of what is essentially a 3D version of graphene – the 2D sheets of carbon through which electrons race at many times the speed at which they move through silicon - promises exciting new things to come for the high-tech industry, including much faster transistors and far more compact hard drives.

17 Jan 2014

Scientists Detect Change in Cosmic Microwave Background Due to Interaction with Massive Moving Objects

By observing a high-speed component of a massive galaxy cluster, Caltech/JPL scientists and collaborators have detected for the first time in an individual object the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, a change in the cosmic microwave background caused by its interaction with massive moving objects.

17 Jan 2014

Novel Technique to Probe Subsurface Electronic Structure

"The interface is the device," Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer famously observed, referring to the remarkable properties to be found at the junctures where layers of different materials meet. In today's burgeoning world of nanotechnology, the interfaces between layers of metal oxides are becoming increasingly prominent, with applications in such high-tech favorites as spintronics, high-temperature superconductors, ferroelectrics and multiferroics.

17 Jan 2014

Researchers Change Positions of Hydrogen Atom Nuclei in Porphycene Molecule

Just a single foreign atom located in the vicinity of a molecule can change spatial arrangement of its atoms. In a spectacular experiment, an international team of researchers was able to change persistently positions of the nuclei of hydrogen atoms in a porphycene molecule by approaching a single copper atom to the molecule.

17 Jan 2014

Himiko Most Likely a Primordial Galaxy

The Subaru Telescope, an 8.2-meter telescope operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has been combing the night sky since 1999. Located at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, the telescope has been systematically surveying each degree of space, whether it looks promising or not, in search of objects worthy of further investigation.

17 Jan 2014

AIP and AAS Honor Astrophysicist Piero Madau with 2014 Dannie Heineman Prize

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) are pleased to announce that astrophysicist Piero Madau has been selected as the 2014 recipient of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, which is given annually to recognize outstanding work in the field.

16 Jan 2014

Quantum Physics-Based ‘One-Shot’ Memory Unit Could Boost Computer Security Systems

Computer security systems may one day get a boost from quantum physics, as a result of recent research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Computer scientist Yi-Kai Liu has devised away to make a security device that has proved notoriously difficult to build—a "one-shot" memory unit, whose contents can be read only a single time.

16 Jan 2014

Astronomers Discover Three Planets Orbiting Stars in Cluster Messier 67

Astronomers have used ESO's HARPS planet hunter in Chile, along with other telescopes around the world, to discover three planets orbiting stars in the cluster Messier 67. Although more than one thousand planets outside the Solar System are now confirmed, only a handful have been found in star clusters. Remarkably one of these new exoplanets is orbiting a star that is a rare solar twin — a star that is almost identical to the Sun in all respects.

16 Jan 2014

Brookhaven Lab Announces Top-10 Breakthroughs of 2013

2013 was a banner year for science at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory—from our contributions to Nobel Prize-winning research to new insights into catalysts, superconductors, and other materials key to advancing energy-efficient technologies. Our Top-10 picks for the year are below; follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr to be in on the breakthroughs of the future as they occur.

16 Jan 2014

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Our Galaxy May Have Grown From Inside-Out

Quasar Helps Image Cosmic Web

Rosetta to Wake Up and Monitor Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Researchers Soften Atomic Bonds in a Buckyball

MAXI's Watchful Eye Helps See the Cosmic Dance of Life and Death for Stars

Theory of Consciousness Corroborated by Discovery of Quantum Vibrations in 'Microtubules'

Sodium Bismuthate Can Exist as a Form of Quantum Matter

Scientists Detect Change in Cosmic Microwave Background Due to Interaction with Massive Moving Objects

Novel Technique to Probe Subsurface Electronic Structure

Researchers Change Positions of Hydrogen Atom Nuclei in Porphycene Molecule

Himiko Most Likely a Primordial Galaxy

AIP and AAS Honor Astrophysicist Piero Madau with 2014 Dannie Heineman Prize

Quantum Physics-Based ‘One-Shot’ Memory Unit Could Boost Computer Security Systems

Astronomers Discover Three Planets Orbiting Stars in Cluster Messier 67

Brookhaven Lab Announces Top-10 Breakthroughs of 2013

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