Over-eating may be to blame for bulges in Milky Way bar
A new simulation conducted on the world’s most powerful supercomputer dedicated to astronomy has produced a testable scenario to explain the appearance of the...
Scientists see spins in a 2D magnet
All magnets—from the simple souvenirs hanging on your refrigerator to the discs that give your computer memory to the powerful versions used in research...
The physics of walking is simpler than we thought
The physics of walking for multi-legged animals and robots is simpler than previously thought.
That is the finding described by a team of roboticists, physicists...
Why stars formed in different environments have similar masses
Last year, a team of astrophysicists launched Star Formation in Gaseous Environments, or STARFORGE, a project that produces the most realistic, highest-resolution 3D simulations...
This matter is about 3 billion times colder than deep space
Physicists have used atoms about 3 billion times colder than interstellar space to open a portal to an unexplored realm of quantum magnetism.
“Unless an...
Scientists reveal new dynamical framework for turbulence
Turbulence plays a key role in our daily lives, making for bumpy plane rides, affecting weather and climate, limiting the fuel efficiency of the...
Scientists detect deadly star-slinging tug-of-war between merging galaxies
While observing a newly-dormant galaxy using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), scientists discovered that it had stopped...
New discovery may offer clues to missing pulsars
Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are evolved neutron stars with short spin periods that have gone through a long period of mass transfer in a low-mass...
How to harvest resources on Mars with plasmas
Scientists came up with a plasma-based way to produce and separate oxygen within the Martian environment.
It's a complementary approach to NASA's Mars Oxygen In-Situ...
This rocket will image supernova remnant
A Northwestern University astrophysics team is aiming for the stars — well, a dead star, that is.
On Aug. 21, the NASA-funded team will launch...