No bigger than a microwave oven, a device designed and built by a University of Miami astrophysicist is helping an international team of astronomers obtain a colossal amount of data on how the univer… [+4502 chars]
Atomic clocks, combined with precise astronomical measurements, have revealed that the length of a day is suddenly getting longer, and scientists don't know why. This has critical impacts not just … [+5184 chars]
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and partners at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have made the first-ever detection of gas in an circumplanetar… [+2954 chars]
The many black hole mergers detected through gravitational wave observatories have revealed that black holes crash into each other far more often than we thought. Now, new research suggests a way for… [+5877 chars]
Scientists using sophisticated computational chemistry techniques have identified a new pathway for how sulfur particles can form in the atmosphere of Venus. These results may help to understand the … [+3392 chars]
All the light in the observable universe provides about as much illumination as a 60-watt bulb seen from 2.5 miles away. And all the energy ever radiated by all the stars that ever existed is still w… [+7241 chars]
An all fiber-based approach to generating special optical beams, called Bessel beams, could open up new applications in imaging, optical trapping and communications. Bessel beams look quite differen… [+3078 chars]
When racehorses enter training at about 2 years old, they can develop tiny stress fractures and new bone formations in their legs. This condition, called bucked shin, occurs in about 70% of the anima… [+3249 chars]
Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun in our solar system at a distance of 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometres). Neptune is orbited by 14 individual moons. Of those 14 moons, one of them … [+4427 chars]
