Nanotech Breakthrough Unveils the Hidden Power of Exploding Stars
For the first time, scientists have directly measured a weak r-process reaction using a radioactive ion beam, shedding light ...
Nanomaterials used to measure first nuclear reaction on radioactive nuclei produced in neutron star collisions
Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for ...
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A Century Ago, Pioneering Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Showed Us What Stars Are Made Of
The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring ...
Scientists Found 10 Million-Year-Old Remnants of a Massive Kilonova in the Bottom of the Ocean
Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...
Should Boeing’s formerly stranded astronauts have been home sooner?
The strangest space odyssey has finally come to an end. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have come home. Their ...
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Supernova graveyard? 10 million years ago, neutron stars crashed on Earth, reveal traces
The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...
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Dark Matter Might Lurk in Its Own Shadow World
Dark matter could be an entire dark sector of the universe, with its own particles and forces H ave you ever stood by the sea ...
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Researchers Part Of TESSERACT's Hunt For Dark Matter
Sensitive detectors let TESSERACT search for dark matter in mass ranges no other experiment has explored. Roger K. Romani, ...
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New 'baby pictures' of the cosmos show the universe in its infancy
If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a newborn.