Measuring radiation damage on the fly
A new system to monitor radiation damage in a material creates acoustic oscillations by using two pulsed laser beams aimed at a sample, in...
How does water melt? Layer by layer!
Ice melts as described in the text layer by layer.Credit: © MPIP
We all know that water melts at 0°C. However, 150 years ago the...
A New Light on Stellar Death
An artist's depiction of a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole surrounded the rotating leftovers of a star that was ripped apart by the tidal...
Spinning Black Hole Swallowing Star Explains Superluminous Event
This artist's impression depicts a sun-like star close to a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole, with a mass of about 100 million times the...
Winds of rubies and sapphires strike the sky of giant planet
This is an artist's impression of planet HAT-P-7b.Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
Signs of powerful changing winds have been detected on a planet 16 times...
New robot has a human touch
(A) Schematic of hand structure and components; (B) image of the fabricated hand mounted on a robotic arm with each finger actuated at ΔP...
Why We Walk on Our Heels Instead of Our Toes
Researchers examined differences between heel-first and toe-first walking.Credit: Image courtesy of James Webber
James Webber took up barefoot running 12 years ago. He needed to...
Researchers improve qubit lifetime for quantum computers
Illustration of the filtering of unwanted quasiparticles (red spheres) from a stream of superconducting electron pairs (blue spheres) using a microwave-driven pump. Credit: Philip...
Reindeer are shrinking – will Santa need more to pull his sleigh?
Svalbard reindeer in the Arctic wilderness. Copyright: Erik Ropstad
Often portrayed as pulling Santa’s sleigh, reindeer are a Christmas staple. Now, ecologists have found that...
Solar-like oscillations in other stars
The Hyades open star cluster in Taurus, one of the closest star clusters Astronomers using K2, the refurbished Kepler Space Telescope, studied solar-like oscillations...
New diamond harder than ring bling
The diamond anvil the scientists used to make the nano-sized Lonsdaleite. Credit: Jamie Kidston, ANU
The Australian National University (ANU) has led an international project...
