Researchers find evidence for a new fundamental constant of the Sun
New research undertaken at Northumbria University, Newcastle shows that the sun's magnetic waves behave differently than currently believed.
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New technology uses lasers to transmit audible messages to specific people
Researchers have demonstrated that a laser can transmit an audible message to a person without any type of receiver equipment. The ability to send highly targeted audio signals over the air could be used to communicate across ...
When a generation loves a previous musical era: Millennials' recognition of 1960s-1990s songs is notable
Millennials' recognition of songs from the 1960s through the 1990s is relatively stable over this 40-year period, a team of researchers has found. By contrast, their recognition of musical hits from 2000 to 2015, while higher ...
Physicists use supercomputers and AI to create the most accurate model yet of black hole mergers
One of the most cataclysmic events to occur in the cosmos involves the collision of two black holes. Formed from the deathly collapse of massive stars, black holes are incredibly compact—a person standing near a stellar-mass ...
Image: The accidentally discovered galaxy Bedin I
This image, taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys shows a part the globular cluster NGC 6752.
Life on the edge in the quantum world
Quantum physics sets the laws that dominate the universe at a small scale. The ability to harness quantum phenomena could lead to machines like quantum computers, which are predicted to perform certain calculations much faster ...
Earthquake with magnitude 7.5 in Indonesia—an unusual and steady speed
An international team of researchers from the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD-France), Université Côte d"Azur, University of California Los Angeles and California Institute of Technology ...
Scientists bring new insight into how animals see
Scientists from The University of Manchester have found a way to trick the eye into thinking the world is brighter than it actually is.
Gravitational waves will settle cosmic conundrum
Measurements of gravitational waves from approximately 50 binary neutron stars over the next decade will definitively resolve an intense debate about how quickly our universe is expanding, according to findings from an international ...
Dinosaur that defended itself with spiny backbone found in Patagonia
A herbivorous dinosaur that fended off predators with a row of spines running along its back and lived 140 million years ago has been found in Argentine Patagonia.
