
What Fuels a White Dwarf’s Luminous Detonation?
What fuels a white dwarf's luminous nuclear detonation?
What fuels a white dwarf's luminous nuclear detonation?
Systematic searches are revealing a plenitude of alien worlds
Ancient, Saturn-like ring systems may have acted as assembly lines for natural satellites
Makemake briefly eclipsed a run-of-the-mill star last year, allowing astronomers to measure the dwarf planet's physical properties
Yesterday’s total solar eclipse, the last until 2015, was visible to precious few. The path of the total eclipse barely skimmed northern Australia and otherwise fell only on the South Pacific Ocean...
A new discovery at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva casts a shadow across a hypothetical realm of particle physics that many had hoped would be the collider’s next major exploration after the apparently successful hunt for the Higgs boson.Physicists working with the collider’s LHC beauty, or LHCb, detector have observed a new kind of particle behavior, the researchers announced November 12 at the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium in Kyoto, Japan...
Patterns of personal contact in a hospital reveal true pathways of transmission
The random motion of a hydrogen molecule can drive the oscillation of a much larger structure
New experiments show that a photon can traverse an optical obstacle course as both a wave and particle simultaneously
A superluminous supernova may sound like a designation dreamed up by someone with a penchant for hyperbole, but such explosions are deserving of the extravagant language.
Little-known Comet 85P/Boethin, chosen as the destination for an extended mission of NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft, disappeared sometime after 1986
Physicists try to puzzle out Voyager 1's position as it approaches interstellar space
Just before 7:45 P.M. Pacific time yesterday, as baseball fans in the San Francisco Bay Area were tuning in to the playoff game between the hometown Giants and the St.
Patterns of personal contact in a hospital reveal true pathways of transmission
A lingering problem in explaining the genesis of the moon appears to have been solved
The small planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B, just four light-years away, is too hot for life but may have habitable neighbors
A new product designed to fight motion sickness promises to put the “NASA” back in “nasal spray.”The space agency announced October 12 that it had signed an agreement with a pharmaceutical company to develop, test and bring to market a nasal gel designed to ward off queasiness from spaceflight, as well as from more mundane travel.The active ingredient, scopolamine, is about as effective as antihistamines (such as dimenhydrinate, used in Dramamine) in preventing motion sickness, but carries less risk of common side effects such as drowsiness, according to a recent Cochrane Review...
A new nanodevice can weigh single molecules in real time
Astronomers have found two stellar-mass black holes in a surprising cohabitation within a cluster of Milky Way stars
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