On-chip, electronically tunable frequency comb
Lasers play a vital role in everything from modern communications and connectivity to bio-medicine and manufacturing. Many applications, however, require lasers that can emit...
Alligator study reveals insight into dinosaur hearing
To determine where a sound is coming from, animal brains analyze the minute difference in time it takes a sound to reach each ear—a...
Supercrystal: A hidden phase of matter created by a burst of light
This is one of the first examples of a new state of matter with long-term stability transfigured by the energy from a sub-pico-second laser...
Spiraling giants: Witnessing the birth of a massive binary star system
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research in Japan, Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of Virginia in the USA...
A new Einstein cross is discovered
This study, which has combined images from the Hubble Space Telescope with spectroscopic observations from the GTC, has confirmed the existence of a new...
Earth is a less volatile version of the Sun, study finds
ANU scientists have found that Earth is made of the same elements as the Sun but has less of the volatile elements such as...
Climate change negatively affects waterbirds in the American West
New research shows that recent climate change is having profound effects on wetlands across the American West – affecting birds that use these wetlands...
Microbes can grow on nitric oxide
Nitric oxide is a fascinating and versatile molecule, important for all living things as well as our environment. It is highly reactive and toxic;...
Earliest known Mariner’s Astrolabe research published today to go in Guinness Book of Records
Guinness World Records have independently certified an astrolabe excavated from the wreck site of a Portuguese Armada Ship that was part of Vasco da...
Dormant viruses activate during spaceflight
Herpes viruses reactivate in more than half of crew aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions, according to NASA research published in Frontiers in...
Nitrogen pollution’s path to streams weaves through more forests (and faster) than suspected
Nitrogen in rain and snow falls to the ground where, in theory, it is used by forest plants and microbes. New research by a...
