A team of researchers at Harvard University, has developed a way to create ultracold polyatomic molecules by trapping and cooling them in three dimensions. In their paper published in the journal Nat… [+2534 chars]
While some galaxies continue to create stars, others die out and live a more passive existence. What caused these galaxies to stop creating stars at such a young age is unknown, not the least since t… [+4010 chars]
EMIT is a state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer that will be aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to map the worlds mineral-dust sources, gather information about particle color and compositi… [+841 chars]
Newswise — In conventional wisdom, producing a curved space requires distortions, such as bending or stretching a flat space. A team of researchers at Purdue University have discovered a new method t… [+7789 chars]
Physical reservoir computing can be used to perform high-speed processing for artificial intelligence with low power consumption. Researchers from Japan design a tunable physical reservoir device ba… [+6755 chars]
Researchers from the Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have found that granular matter (such as sand) and some b… [+2791 chars]
Weakly electric fish provide excellent study systems to analyze. The fish has independently evolved electric organs from muscle. However, how the fish could evolve its electric organs remains unclear… [+3177 chars]
A new technique for studying some of the brightest objects in the universe has thrown a curveball into scientists' understanding of the link between active monster black holes and the suppression of … [+3911 chars]
Gravitational-wave researchers from The University of Western Australia have directed the development of a new laser mode sensor with remarkable precision that will be wielded to study the interiors … [+1544 chars]
Researchers have analyzed the properties of an organic polymer with potential applications in flexible electronics and uncovered variations in hardness at the nanoscale, the first time such a fine st… [+3970 chars]
Photomultiplier tubes lining the walls of the Daya Bay neutrino detector, October 5, 2012. Photo: Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory On June 2, scientists from a big physics proj… [+8222 chars]
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a nearby M-dwarf star known as Ross 508. The newly found alien world, which received designation Ros… [+3414 chars]
