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Nearing the end of its life, the spectacularly successful mission is still churning out new observations The Kepler space telescope isn’t dead yet. Kepler, which has discovered about 70 percent of the 3,800 known exoplanets to date, woke up from a four-week hibernation yesterday (Aug. 2) and has begun beaming data home, just as planned, NASA officials announced today […]

In 2014, a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, Canada, named Cohl Furey rented a car and drove six hours south to Pennsylvania State University, eager to talk to a physics professor there named Murat Günaydin. Furey had figured out how to build on a finding of Günaydin’s from 40 years earlier — a largely forgotten result

Amid rising concerns over the effects of global warming, a group of scientists has claimed that the Earth could in a little over a decade be hit by a “mini ice age” that would freeze major rivers. The startling prediction is based on a mathematical model of the Sun’s magnetic energy which also suggests that

Fiery chunks of rock are constantly bombarding the planetary bodies of our solar system, leaving behind long-lasting scars. These gouges, in the form of craters, can be used to learn about the history of our little nook in the vast universe, prompting scientists to feverishly study their features. Yet one pattern commonly found around craters

 Astronomers generally agree that planets form out of the massive disks of leftover debris that surround most newborn stars. As these disks of gas and dust orbit their stars, small clumps of material coalesce, ultimately growing larger and larger until they eventually reach planetary status. However, not all planets make it that far. Sometimes, two

Nowadays, the Standard Model is depicted in a table, similar to the periodic table, but it hasn’t always been so. Originally it was an equation, a very long equation, a very long and complex equation that attempts to explain all the laws of physics, particles, their characteristics and relation to each other. While more complicated

HOUSTON — After years of vehicle development and building anticipation, NASA has now put the crew in commercial crew spacecraft. The space agency on Friday (Aug. 3) announced nine men and women who will launch on the first crewed test flights and missions of new commercial spacecraft built and operated by The Boeing Company and SpaceX. The eight

قبل قليل سألني احد الزملاء حول ‏Polaritons ‎هي أشباه جسيمات تنشأ من التفاعل القوي بين الامواج الكهرومغناطيسية ومجالات الكهرباء او المغناطيسية للثنائي المستثار dipole excitation ببساطة هو عبارة عن تفاعل الفوتون مع الثنائي It is Photon and dipole interactions “Polaritons are hybrid particles made up of a photon strongly coupled to an electric dipole. Examples

Weird. MIKE MCRAE 5 SEP 2018 Planck’s law of radiative heat transfer has held up well under a century of intense testing, but a new analysis has found it fails on the smallest of scales. Exactly what this means isn’t all that clear yet, but where laws fail, new discoveries can follow. Such a find