'Terminator zones' on distant planets could harbor life, UC Irvine astronomers say
In a new study, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how extraterrestrial life has the potential to exist on distant exoplanets inside a special area called the "terminator zone," which is a ring on planets that have one side that always faces its star and one side that is always dark.
Prototype telescope designed by Lawrence Livermore researchers launched to the International Space Station
A prototype telescope designed and built by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers has been launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida to the International Space Station (ISS).
Resistance in Walls Can Cause Disruptive Energy Loss
Under certain conditions, tokamaks can suffer a sudden loss of energy to the vessel walls. This is sometimes caused by a magnetohydrodynamic instability, or mode, coupling to the vacuum vessel. New research demonstrates that the rate of thermal energy loss is consistent with the growth of a particular instability, the resistive wall tearing mode. The results will aid in the operation of the ITER tokamak now under construction.
STAR Physicists Track Sequential 'Melting' of Upsilons
Scientists using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study some of the hottest matter ever created in a laboratory have published their first data showing how three distinct variations of particles called upsilons sequentially "melt," or dissociate, in the hot goo.
William Evans Joins Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the most promising innovators in science and technology, has announced the election of William Evans to its board of directors.
Fighting Intolerance with Physics
In a world experiencing growing inequality and intolerance, tools borrowed from science and mathematics could be the key to understanding and preventing prejudice. In Chaos, Luis A. Martinez-Vaquero applies evolutionary game theory, which combines techniques from economics and biology, and complex system analysis to investigate the relationship between inequality and intolerance. He found that inequality boosts intolerance and that redistribution of wealth can prevent its infectious spread.
Dark Sky Protection: We Are Losing the Universe
White LEDs contributing to skyglow, satellites impacting astronomical observations, and stars vanishing from sight -- the effects of light pollution are revealed thanks to alarming new evidence from Globe at Night, a global citizen science program of NSF's NOIRLab. The study reveals that indeed the night sky is disappearing, but there is always something we can do. On 13 March 2023, Globe at Night will begin its next campaign, which will last until 22 March and coincides with the launch of a new Globe at Night website that features a revamped and more streamlined user interface.
Students Reach for the Sky to Launch High-Altitude Balloon Platform
A team of future engineers and computer scientists is working toward getting a high-altitude balloon and capsule 150,000 feet, or 28 miles high, off the ground to provide an affordable launch service for scientific experiments in microgravity environments.
Quantum engineers have designed a new tool to probe nature with extreme sensitivity
Associate Professor Jarryd Pla and his team from UNSW School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, together with colleague Scientia Professor Andrea Morello, described a new device that can measure the spins in materials with high precision.
3D internal structure of rechargeable batteries revealed for the first time
Lancaster University researchers have pioneered a technique to observe the 3D internal structure of rechargeable batteries for the first time.
World's fastest burst-mode X-ray camera hits the road
Sandia National Laboratories has partnered with Albuquerque-based startup Advanced hCMOS Systems to commercialize ultrafast imaging technology invented at the labs and used extensively in fusion research.
Hotter than infinity - light pulses can behave like an exotic gas
In the issue of the renowned journal Science published today (10.3.23), the team led by Prof. Dr Ulf Peschel reports on measurements on a sequence of pulses that travel thousands of kilometres through glass fibres that are only a few microns thin.
Registration open for all LLNL summer education programs
Registration is now open for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) summer science education programs. Summer programming includes opportunities for both teachers and students.
Knots smaller than human hair make materials unusually tough
In the latest advance in nano- and micro-architected materials, engineers at Caltech have developed a new material made from numerous interconnected microscale knots.
Researchers unveil new AI-driven method for improving additive manufacturing
Argonne's Advanced Photon Source helped scientists develop a new technique for detecting and predicting defects in 3D printed metals.
Spanish physicists disagree with the Sleep Society and endorse the time change in the USA
Jose Maria Martin-Olalla from the University of Seville and Jorge Mira Perez from the University of Santiago de Compostela dispute the manifesto issued by the Sleep Research Society advocating permanent adoption of winter time
Physics model could optimize basketball player positioning
A physics theory that's proven useful to predict the crowd behavior of molecules and fruit flies also seems to work on another group - NBA players.
A surprising way to trap a microparticle
When physicists steered a tiny microparticle toward a cylindrical obstacle, they expected one of two outcomes to occur. The particle would either collide into the obstacle or sail around it. The particle, however, did neither.
Hitting Nuclei with Light May Create Fluid Primordial Matter
A new analysis supports the idea that photons colliding with heavy ions create a fluid of "strongly interacting" particles. The results indicate that photon-heavy ion collisions can create a strongly interacting fluid that responds to the initial collision geometry and that these collisions can form a quark-gluon plasma. These findings will help guide future experiments at the planned Electron-Ion Collider.
Out of this world: McMaster satellite team anticipates upcoming launch of NEUDOSE
After eight years of work by more than 150 McMaster students and alumni, the NEUDOSE satellite is ready for liftoff.
A pool at Yellowstone is a thumping thermometer
Doublet Pool's regular thumping is more than just an interesting tourist attraction. A new study led by University of Utah researchers shows that the interval between episodes of thumping reflects the amount of energy heating the pool at the bottom, as well as in indication of how much heat is being lost through the surface. Doublet Pool, the authors found, is Yellowstone's thumping thermometer.
Lunar Telescope Will Search for Ancient Radio Waves
Scientists at Brookhaven Lab are leading a new effort to land a radio telescope on the moon. If successful, the project will mark the first step towards exploring the Dark Ages of the universe.
UAH-led statewide effort to apply plasma technologies reaches out to broad coalition
A statewide University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)-led effort to fund, develop and commercialize plasma research and the high-tech workforce it requires is reaching out to a broad coalition of researchers, students, businesspeople and the public with a goal of stimulating thousands of high-paying jobs in Alabama and the Southeast.
ALMA Traces History of Water in Planet Formation Back to the Interstellar Medium
Scientists studying a nearby protostar have detected the presence of water in its circumstellar disk. The new observations made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) mark the first detection of water being inherited into a protoplanetary disk without significant changes to its composition. These results further suggest that the water in our Solar System formed billions of years before the Sun.
ALMA revela que origenes de agua en planeta en formacion se remontarian a medio interestelar
Un equipo cientifico detecto agua en el disco circumestelar de una protoestrella cercana gracias al Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Es la primera vez que se observa agua depositandose en un disco protoplanetario sin que se produzcan cambios significativos en su composicion. Este hallazgo permite suponer que el agua presente en nuestro Sistema Solar se formo miles de millones de anos antes que el Sol.