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Mysterious Radio Flashes May Be Farewell Greetings from Massive Stars Collapsing Into Black Holes
July 5, 2013 Mysterious bright radio flashes that appear for only a brief moment on the sky and do not repeat could be the final farewell greetings of a massive star collapsing into a black hole, astronomers ... > full story -
Laser System Allows Determination of Atomic Binding Energy of the Rarest Element on Earth
July 4, 2013 The radioactive element astatine, the name of which is derived from the Greek word for 'instability,' is so rare on Earth that it has not yet been investigated to any greater extent and, as a ... > full story -
White Dwarf Star Throws Light on Possible Variability of a Constant of Nature
July 4, 2013 Astronomers have studied a distant star where gravity is more than 30,000 times greater than on Earth to test the controversial theory that one of the constants of Nature is not a constant. The ... > full story -
Space Study Opens Up New Opportunities to Explore Exotic Energy
July 4, 2013 Answering the ultimate question to Life, Universe and Everything? Not quite, but an international team of scientists have conducted research that opens up new possibilities for exploring what to date ... > full story -
New Knowledge About Early Galaxies
July 3, 2013 The early galaxies of the universe were very different from today's galaxies. Using new detailed studies carried out with the ESO Very Large Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have ... > full story -
Revolutionary Instrument Delivers a Sharper Universe to Astronomers
July 2, 2013 A unique new instrument at Gemini South in Chile takes the removal of atmospheric distortions (using adaptive optics technology) to a new level. Today's release of seven ultrasharp, large-field ... > full story -
New Catalyst Could Cut Cost of Making Hydrogen Fuel
July 2, 2013 A new discovery may represent a significant advance in the quest to create a "hydrogen economy" that would use this abundant element to store and transfer ... > full story -
Inseparable Galactic Twins
July 2, 2013 Looking towards the constellation of Triangulum (The Triangle), in the northern sky, lies the galaxy pair MRK 1034. The two very similar galaxies, named PGC 9074 and PGC 9071, are close enough to one ... > full story -
Solving Electron Transfer
July 2, 2013 Scientists have shown how a solvent can interfere with electron transfer by using unprecedented time resolution in ultrafast fluorescence ... > full story -
Dark Energy Survey Set to Seek out Supernovae
July 2, 2013 The largest ever search for supernovae – exploding stars up to 10 billion times brighter than the Sun – is beginning this August. For the next five years, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) ... > full story
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