Scientists discover the highest-energy light coming from the sun
Sometimes, the best place to hide a secret is in broad daylight. Just ask the sun.
Sometimes, the best place to hide a secret is in broad daylight. Just ask the sun.
Astronomy
Aug 3, 2023
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For decades, astronomers and physicists have been trying to solve one of the deepest mysteries about the cosmos: An estimated 85% of its mass is missing. Numerous astronomical observations indicate that the visible mass in ...
General Physics
Dec 9, 2022
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An international team of scientists, including researchers at MIT, has come closer to pinning down the mass of the elusive neutrino. These ghost-like particles permeate the universe and yet are thought to be nearly massless, ...
General Physics
Sep 17, 2019
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Researchers at Purdue University have developed new heterostructures that could make optoelectrical devices, such as solar panels and sensors, more efficient.
Nanomaterials
Feb 23, 2018
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NIMS researchers Bo Da (researcher at the RCAMC and the CMI2, MaDIS) and Hideki Yoshikawa (leader of the Surface Chemical Analysis Group) and a research group led by Shigeo Tanuma (NIMS Special Researcher), Kazuhito Tsukakoshi ...
Nanophysics
Jul 31, 2017
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A combined analysis of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), a ground-based observatory in Namibia, suggests the center of our Milky Way contains a "trap" that ...
Astronomy
Jul 18, 2017
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Supersymmetry is an extension to the Standard Model that may explain the origin of dark matter and pave the way to a grand unified theory of nature. For each particle of the Standard Model, supersymmetry introduces an exotic ...
General Physics
May 18, 2017
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Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently uncovered novel properties of strontium niobate, which is a unique semiconductor material that displays both metallic type conduction and photocatalytic ...
Materials Science
May 15, 2017
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The Earth is under constant bombardment by subatomic particles called cosmic rays, including some, known as ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, which pack much more punch than the world's most powerful particle accelerators. Fortunately, ...
Astronomy
May 4, 2016
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Was it a blip, or a breakthrough?
General Physics
May 2, 2016
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