Relationship established between brightness and diet of black holes
A group of researchers led by Paula Sánchez-Sáez, a doctoral student in the Department of Astronomy of the Universidad de Chile, managed to determine...
Youngest accretion disk detected in star formation
An international team led by Chin-Fei Lee at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) has discovered a very small accretion disk...
Fast vs slow water—explaining the fragile-to-strong transition
A Japanese research team led by The University of Tokyo investigated the fragile-to-strong transition of water. Unlike most liquids, when water is cooled, the...
Saturn’s famous hexagon may tower above the clouds
The long-lived international Cassini mission has revealed a surprising feature emerging at Saturn's northern pole as it nears summertime: a warming, high-altitude vortex with...
Veiled supernovae provide clue to stellar evolution
At the end of its life, a red supergiant star explodes in a hydrogen-rich supernova. By comparing observation results to simulation models, an international...
At last, a simple 3-D printer for metal
Used to produce three-dimensional objects of almost any type, across a range of industries, including healthcare, aviation and engineering, 3-D printed materials have come...
A quantum gate between atoms and photons may help in scaling up quantum computers
The quantum computers of the future will be able to perform computations that cannot be done on today's computers. These may likely include the...
Global warming, El Nino could cause wetter winters, drier conditions in other months
So here's the good news: Despite fears to the contrary, California isn't facing a year-round drought in our warming new world.
However, UC Riverside Earth...
Ultracold atoms used to verify 1963 prediction about 1-D electrons
Rice University atomic physicists have verified a key prediction from a 55-year-old theory about one-dimensional electronics that is increasingly relevant thanks to Silicon Valley's...
‘Carnivore’ sharks have a stomach for greens: study
The bonnethead shark, a small member of the hammerhead family, was long thought to be a strict carnivore that would occasionally ingest greens purely...
Terahertz spectroscopy enters the single-molecule regime
The interaction of light with matter is the basis of spectroscopy, a set of techniques lying at the heart of physics and chemistry. From...
