Brookhaven Lab staff reductions amid heavy ion collider transition
As Brookhaven National Laboratory prepares to end operations of its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at month’s end while…
Rogue Planets And The “Einstein Desert” Mystery: The Unexplained Gap Between Low And High Mass Objects
The first confirmed discovery of an exoplanet was announced in 1992, when astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail…
Aharonov–Bohm interference in even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states
Feldman, D. E. & Halperin, B. I. Fractional charge and fractional statistics in the quantum Hall effects. Rep.…
ipRGC properties prevent light from shifting the SCN clock during daytime
Hattar, S., Liao, H. W., Takao, M., Berson, D. M. & Yau, K. W. Melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cells:…
Cosmic dust: “too much, too soon” no longer!
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Astronomers Catch Rare Black Hole Event 400 Billion Times the Power of the Sun
A groundbreaking study recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has revealed an unprecedented…
MIT Scientists Capture ‘Second Sound’ in Quantum Fluid, Proving Its Existence
While heat in everyday materials spreads gradually from a hot point outward, this rule breaks down inside superfluids,…
Astronomers Stunned By Ultra-Hot Galaxy Cluster Just 1.4 Billion Years After Big Bang
A newly discovered galaxy cluster, blazing with unexpectedly hot gas just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang,…
Astronomers Discover a Bright Supernova Using Gravitational Lensing for the First Time
Gravitational Lensing is a vital tool for astronomers to observe objects that are too distant or faint (or…
Faraday Effects Emerging From The Optical Magnetic Field
As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field.…