Astrophysicists have discovered the fastest known star which is racing around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The star, designated S4716, completes an orbit around the supermassive bla… [+3385 chars]
Unistellar, the company behind a series of consumer-focused telescope cameras, has updated its Nocturne iPhone app to allow it to identify constellations, galaxies, nebulae, and planets. Nocturne ha… [+2660 chars]
Published: 9:30pm, 6 Jul, 2022 Updated: 10:01pm, 6 Jul, 2022
Washington, DC— Carnegie postdoctoral researcher Edgar Virgüez was named Friday one of four new trustees of Duke University. He will serve a three-year term, the first year as an observer. Virgüez j… [+2317 chars]
LISTEN HERE This podcast is part of a series of pieces that Physics Magazine is publishing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery. See also: News Feature: The Era of Higgs Ph… [+1750 chars]
Carbon has numerous allotropes owing to its ability to form various bonds through orbital hybridization. Among all the allotropes, graphite and diamond (with sp2 and sp3 hybridization, respectively) … [+22772 chars]
NASA said Tuesday it has lost contact with a $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit, but agency engineers are hopeful they can fix the problem. After one succ… [+960 chars]
Though they are discrete particles, water molecules flow collectively as liquids, producing streams, waves, whirlpools, and other classic fluid phenomena.Not so with electricity. While an electric cu… [+5910 chars]
Andriy Nevidomskyy. (Courtesy: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University) For decades, quantum spin liquids were seen as largely hypothetical, with real-world examples thought to exist only in unusual systems suc… [+5690 chars]
Chinese and Australian astronomers have jointly discovered a binary system that has just experienced a common envelope ejection, the first time in history to have found direct observational evidence … [+2846 chars]
Experts in biomedical research are calling for better use of chemical probes to improve our understanding of protein function and the foundations on which much of modern drug discovery and developmen… [+7331 chars]
Newswise — CAMBRIDGE, MA – Receptors found on cell surfaces bind to hormones, proteins, and other molecules, helping cells respond to their environment. MIT chemists have now discovered how one of th… [+5339 chars]
