Physical Sciences
Using gravitational “lenses” in space, University of Utah astronomers discovered that the centers of the biggest galaxies are growing denser – evidence of repeated collisions and mergers by massive galaxies with 100 billion stars.
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At very low temperatures, close to absolute zero, chemical reactions may proceed at a much higher rate than classical chemistry says they should...
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David J. Wineland, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics. The honor is NIST’s fourth Nobel prize in physics in the past 15 years.
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Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have combined the best properties of both types of industrial catalysts by encapsulating nanoclusters of a metallic heterogeneous catalyst within the branched arms of the molecules known as dendrimers.
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University of Adelaide applied mathematicians have extended Einstein's theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 to...
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One of the unsolved mysteries of contemporary science is how highly organized structures can emerge from the random motion of particles.
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Engineers at The University of Texas at Dallas have used advanced techniques to make the material graphene small enough to read DNA.
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A technique that uses acoustic waves to sort cells on a chip may create miniature medical analytic devices that could make Star Trek's tricorder seem a bit bulky in comparison, according to a team of researchers.
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A team of researchers has succeeded in creating a defect in the structure of a single-layer crystal by simply inserting an extra particle, and then watching as the crystal “heals” itself.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's JASPER gas gun has fired its 100th shot.
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In a world first, a research team has been able to look at a distant black hole and resolve the area where its jets are launched from.
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