Final dance of unequal black hole partners
Solving the equations of general relativity for colliding black holes is no simple matter.
Physicists began using supercomputers to obtain solutions to this famously hard...
Astronomers discover clues that unveil the mystery of fast radio bursts
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs -- powerful, millisecond-duration radio waves coming from deep space outside the Milky Way Galaxy -- have been among the...
Feeding a galaxy’s nuclear black hole
The luminous, barred galaxy ESO 320-G030 is about one hundred and fifty million light-years away and shows no signs of having been in a...
Researchers demonstrate a superconductor previously thought impossible
Superconductivity is a phenomenon in which an electric circuit loses its resistance and becomes extremely efficient under certain conditions. There are different ways in...
A new candidate material for quantum spin liquids
In 1973, physicist and later Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson proposed a bizarre state of matter: the quantum spin liquid (QSL). Unlike the everyday...
Baby dinosaurs were ‘little adults’
Long neck, small head and a live weight of several tons -- with this description you could have tracked down the Plateosaurus in Central...
Seeing dark matter in a new light
A small team of astronomers have found a new way to 'see' the elusive dark matter haloes that surround galaxies, with a new technique...
Fossil poop shows fishy lunches from 200 million years ago
A new study of coprolites, fossil poop, shows the detail of food webs in the ancient shallow seas around Bristol in south-west England. One...
New protein nanobioreactor designed to improve sustainable bioenergy production
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have unlocked new possibilities for the future development of sustainable, clean bioenergy. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows...
Higgs boson probes for new phenomena
Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are on the hunt for physics phenomena beyond the standard model. Some theories predict an as-yet undiscovered...
The first duckbill dinosaur fossil from Africa hints at how dinosaurs once crossed oceans
The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur have been discovered in Africa, suggesting dinosaurs crossed hundreds of kilometres of open water to get there.
The...
