Physical Sciences
A South American butterfly flapped its wings, and caused a flurry of nanotechnology research to happen in Ohio.
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As black holes go, Sagittarius A* is relatively low-key. The black hole at the center of our galaxy emits very little energy for its size, giving off roughly as much energy as the sun, even though it is 4 million times as massive.
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Five physicists will enter, only one will leave … with a prize, that is.
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A new type of nanoscale molecular trap makes it possible for industry to store large amounts of hydrogen in small fuel cells or capture, compact and remove volatile radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel in an affordable, easily commercialized way.
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Movement of seawater affects how marine bacteria absorb organic material.
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Like a movie star constantly retouching her makeup, the protoplanet Vesta is continually stirring its outermost layer and presenting a young face.
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Seven years ago, physics professor Latika Mennon’s first graduate student said he wanted to “change the world.”
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U-M Launches $9M Effort to Strengthen Great Lakes Restoration While Advancing Research and Education
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In the event that a giant asteroid is headed toward Earth, you’d better hope that it’s blindingly white. A pale asteroid would reflect sunlight — and over time, this bouncing of photons off its surface could create enough of a force to push the asteroid off its course.
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"Avalanches" -- the crackling behavior of materials under slowly increasing stress, like crumpling paper or earthquakes -- may have a novel facet previously unknown, say Cornell researchers.
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical galaxy that may have been puffed up by the actions of one or more black holes in its core.
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The study of materials at extreme conditions took a giant leap forward with the discovery of a way to generate super high pressures without using shock waves whose accompanying heat turns solids to liquid.
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