NASA’s Van Allen Probes were there to watch it. There are multiple ways electrons in the radiation belts can be energized or accelerated: radially, locally or by way of a shock. One ...
Only three or four supernovas happen in our galaxy every century. At the Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan, a new computer system has been installed in order to monitor in real time...
This X-ray source is the most luminous of its type detected to date: it is 10 times brighter than the previous record holder. XMM-Newton observed the object several times in the last...
A computer-generated image of the LHC particle accelerator at CERN in the tunnel originally built for the LEP accelerator that was closed in 2000. Credit: CERN Scientists at the Hig...
Credit: NASA Researchers from the University of New Hampshire have captured unique measurements of the Van Allen radiation belts, which circle the Earth, during an extremely rare so...
Now, new observations from NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission show that the fastest, most energetic electrons in the inner radiation belt are not present as much of the time as previous...
Bao-Sen Shi’s research group from the University of Science and Technology of China collaborated with Prof. Zhi-Han Zhu from Harbin University of Science and Technology and other col...
Light-amplifying devices known as photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), developed for use in the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter-hunting experiment, are prepared for a test at Brown University. ...
The twin Van Allen Probes orbit one behind the other, investigating clues in a way a single spacecraft never could. The two twin Van Allen Probe spacecraft orbit one behind the other...
Humans have long been shaping Earth’s landscape, but now scientists know we can shape our near-space environment as well. A certain type of communications – very low frequency, or VL...
With these results, Fermi has excluded more candidates, has shown that dark matter can contribute to only a small part of the gamma-ray background beyond our galaxy, the Milky Way, a...
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by supersized black holes. Light from the m...
These new data enable researchers from all over the world to study the DNA variants and use the results to better understand genetic diseases. However, large structural variants ofte...
The entire LIGO and Virgo scientific collaborations worked to put all these pieces together. LIGO made the first-ever direct observation of gravitational waves in September 2015 duri...
The H0LiCOW collaboration, a cosmology project led by EPFL and Max Planck Institute and regrouping several research organizations in the world has made a new measurement of the Hubbl...
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have been able to capture the first composite image of a dark matter bridge that connects galaxies together. The scientists publish their wo...
And the research on gravitational waves - and thus the origin of the universe - continues: From 2034 three satellites are to be launched into space in a project headed by the Europea...
This new study, however, has thrown up a surprise, with the detection of large halos around all 19 quasars observed – far more than the two halos that were expected statistically. Th...
The best known sauropod dinosaurs were huge herbivorous creatures, whose brain structures were markedly different from those of their evolutionary predecessors, for the earliest repr...
Accounting for 27% of the mass and energy in the observable universe, the existence of this matter was intended to explain all the missing baryonic matter in cosmological models. So ...
Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a next-generation dark matter detector that will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, has cleare...
A Yale-led team has produced one of the highest-resolution maps of dark matter ever created, offering a detailed case for the existence of cold dark matter – sluggish particles that ...
USC will lead the effort among various universities and private contractors to design, build and test 100 qubit quantum machines. At USC, the effort includes the USC Center for Quant...
But practical, diamond-based quantum computing devices will require the ability to position those defects at precise locations in complex diamond structures, where the defects can fu...
That’s why scientists are working on computers using quantum physics, or quantum computers, which promise to be faster and more powerful than conventional computers. What is a quantu...