Researchers Demonstrate A Single Atom Light Switch
In a newly published study, researchers from the Vienna University of Technology demonstrate highly efficient switching of optical signals between two optical fibers controlled by…
Astrophysicists Discover Black Holes in Globular Star Clusters
Using an array of radio telescopes, a team of astrophysicists discovered the first examples of black holes in globular star clusters in our own galaxy….
Astronomers Estimate One in Five Sol-Like Stars Have Planets Conducive to Life
Based on a statistical analysis of all the Kepler data, astronomers now estimate that one in five stars like our Sun have planets about the…
Kepler Data Reveal the Discovery of 833 New Candidate Planets
The latest analysis of Kepler Space Telescope data has revealed the discovery of 833 new candidate planets; ten of these candidates are less than twice…
Astrophysicists Show How Universe’s Violent Youth Seeded Cosmos with Iron
The even distribution of iron throughout the Perseus cluster has allowed astrophysicists to tell the billion-year-old story of how exploding stars and black holes sowed…
Breakthrough in Quantum Cryptography Demonstrates “Perfectly Secure” Bit Commitment
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated perfectly secure bit commitment, sending encrypted data between pairs of sites in Geneva and Singapore. A breakthrough in…
Rudimentary Form of Life Sidesteps Normal Replication Processes
Researchers from the University of Nottingham have shown that in some organisms the genetic switches that control DNA replication are unnecessary and that cells will…
Chandra Views Glowing Gas in the Milky Way, NGC 3576
Released to the public for the first time, this Chandra/ESO image shows NGC 3576. A region of glowing gas in the Sagittarius arm of the…
Geoscientists Building Whole-Earth Model to Study Long-Term Climate Evolution
Geoscientists from Rice University are building a whole-Earth model to study long-term climate evolution, focusing on how carbon moves between Earth’s external and internal systems….
Scientists Develop a New Way to Kill Cancer Cells
By targeting mitochondria with the anticancer drug cisplatin, chemists have developed a new way to kill cancer cells that have shown resistance to cisplatin. Cisplatin…
Smith Cloud Heading Toward the Milky Way at More Than 150 Miles Per Second
Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, astronomers discovered a magnetic field deep in…
New Evidence Supports “Inside-Out” Theory of Galaxy Evolution
Using data from NASA’s WISE and GALEX missions, astronomers have gathered new evidence for the “inside-out” theory of galaxy growth, showing that bursts of star…
LUX Dark Matter Detector Completes First 90-Days of Operation
With its first 90-days of operation completed, researchers at the Large Underground Xenon experiment are reporting that LUX has demonstrated a sensitivity that is better…
WISE Views the Witch Head Nebula
This newly released WISE image shows the Witch Head nebula, which is located in the Orion constellation. A witch appears to be screaming out into…
Uniform Heavy Element Distribution Points to Early Cosmic ‘Seeding’
Using Suzaku’s X-ray telescopes to make 84 observations of the Perseus Cluster, researchers discovered that most of the universe’s heavy elements, including the iron central…
Kepler-78b, A Lava World with an Earth-Like Density
Astronomers discover the first known Earth-sized planet with an Earth-like density, a scorching lava world that circles its star every eight and a half hours…
Hubble Views Proxima Centauri
This newly released Hubble image shows Proxima Centauri, which is located just over four light-years from Earth. Shining brightly in this Hubble image is our…
TU Vienna Researchers Develop World’s Most Powerful Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser
Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have developed the world’s most powerful terahertz quantum cascade laser, breaking the previous record held by the Massachusetts…
