Last year, the Advanced LIGO-VIRGO gravitational-wave detector network recorded data from 35 merging black holes and neutron stars. A great result—but what did they miss? According to Dr. Rory Smith from the ARC Centre ...
Astronomy
Jun 18, 2020
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A landmark study into youth crime is launching a new phase to better understand how experience of offending in childhood impacts on later life.
Social Sciences
Nov 19, 2019
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Physicists use two types of measurements to calculate the expansion rate of the universe, but their results do not coincide, which may make it necessary to update the cosmological model. "It's like trying to thread a cosmic ...
Astronomy
Nov 18, 2019
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Early career teachers are more likely to stay on if they practise what they teach in their own time. We found that practitioner-teachers – such as art teachers practising art and biology teachers observing nature – see ...
Education
Mar 28, 2019
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An international team of researchers has found that early exposure by certain art institutions is a major factor in lifelong success as an artist. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their ...
A jet of X-rays from a supermassive black hole 12.4 billion light years from Earth has been detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This is the most distant X-ray jet ever observed and gives astronomers a glimpse into ...
Astronomy
Nov 28, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Nature hath no fury like a dying star—and astronomers couldn't be happier...
Astronomy
Aug 30, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Swift satellite in April 2009 has been newly unveiled as a candidate for the most distant object in the universe. At an estimated distance of 13.14 billion light years, ...
Astronomy
May 25, 2011
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An international team of researchers led by Ichi Tanaka from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has discovered an aggregate of galaxies undergoing a burst of star formation that may hold the key to understanding ...
Astronomy
Feb 28, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It seems, early on its life, our Universe was a place of extremes.
Astronomy
May 20, 2010
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