Astronomers reveal how black holes power the brightest objects in the cosmos
What is the brightest object in the night sky?
Astronomy
Feb 3, 2016
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A highway for spin waves: Team develops process for controlling innovative information media
The success story of information processing by way of moving electrons is slowly coming to an end. The trend towards more and more compact chips constitutes a major challenge for manufacturers, since the increasing miniaturization ...
Nanophysics
Feb 1, 2016
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Paper proposes method to create gravitational fields
Producing and detecting gravitational fields at will using magnetic fields, controlling them for study, working with them to produce new technologies—it sounds impossible, but Prof. André Füzfa of Namur University has ...
General Physics
Jan 11, 2016
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Strong magnetic fields discovered in majority of stars
Strong magnetic fields discovered in majority of stars—Finding to impact understanding of stellar evolution
Astronomy
Jan 4, 2016
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Nanoscale one-way street for light
An optical device at nanoscale which allows light to pass in only one direction has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna). It consists of alkali atoms which are coupled to ultrathin glass fibres.
Nanophysics
Dec 14, 2015
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Quantum spin could create unstoppable, one-dimensional electron waves
In certain nanomaterials, electrons are able to race through custom-built roadways just one atom wide. To achieve excellent efficiency, these one-dimensional paths must be paved with absolute perfection—a single errant ...
General Physics
Nov 18, 2015
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X-ray microscope reveals 'solitons,' a special type of magnetic wave
Researchers used a powerful, custom-built X-ray microscope at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to directly observe the magnetic version of a soliton, a type of wave that can travel without resistance. ...
General Physics
Nov 17, 2015
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Study explores wave-particle interaction in atmosphere
A Dartmouth-led study sheds light on the impact of plasma waves on high-energy electrons streaking into Earth's magnetic field from space.
Space Exploration
Oct 27, 2015
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Astronomers peer inside stars, finding giant magnets
Astronomers have for the first time probed the magnetic fields in the mysterious inner regions of stars, finding they are strongly magnetized.
Astronomy
Oct 22, 2015
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First realization of an electric circuit with a magnetic insulator using spin waves
Researchers at the University of Groningen, Utrecht University, the Université de Bretagne Occidentale and the FOM Foundation have found that it is possible to make an electric circuit with a magnetic insulator. This was ...
General Physics
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