How NASA's Roman Space Telescope will chronicle the active cosmos
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will pair space-based observations with a broad field of view to unveil the dynamic cosmos in ways that have never been possible before.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will pair space-based observations with a broad field of view to unveil the dynamic cosmos in ways that have never been possible before.
Astronomy
Nov 15, 2023
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Absolutely empty—that is how most of us envision the vacuum. Yet, in reality, it is filled with an energetic flickering: the quantum fluctuations.
Quantum Physics
Nov 13, 2023
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Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang.
Astronomy
Nov 11, 2023
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As a well-known ultraviolet (UV)-vis-near-infrared (IR) nonlinear optical (NLO) material in the borate system, β-BaB2O4 (BBO) has a wide range of applications because of its outstanding NLO performance. Further analysis ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 31, 2023
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In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife's hand, kicking off a revolutionary diagnostic tool for medicine. Now two of NASA's X-ray space telescopes have combined their imaging ...
Astronomy
Oct 30, 2023
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As planet-hunting scientists find more and more planets, they've encountered some puzzles. One of them concerns the lack of Neptune-size worlds orbiting close to their stars. Astronomers think that these planets aren't massive ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 27, 2023
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A new spectroscopy technique developed by RIKEN researchers could help reveal the inner workings of metal catalysts and the proteins involved in photosynthesis in plants.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 26, 2023
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Type I X-ray bursts are the most frequent types of thermonuclear stellar explosions in the galaxy. As the key nucleosynthesis process in X-ray bursts, the rapid proton capture process (rp-process) is an important scientific ...
Astronomy
Oct 16, 2023
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The many-body interaction of charges (electrons) and nuclei (phonons) plays a critical role in determining the properties and functionalities of molecules and solids. The exact correlated motion of these particles gives rise ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 11, 2023
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Cornell researchers took a novel approach to explore the way microstructure emerges in a 3D-printed metal alloy: They bombarded it with X-rays while the material was being printed.
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 10, 2023
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