Neon Lights up Exploding Stars
An international team of nuclear astrophysicists has shed new light on the explosive stellar events known as novae.
Scientists Find Milky Way’s Spine
Scientists have announced the discovery of a spine-like structure within the Milky Way that might help explain the dynamics of galactic formation. The Milky Way is the spiral galaxy we live in and is one of billions of such vast pinwheel-like formations scattered throughout the universe, each containing hundreds of billions of stars.
How to Treat Heat like Light
CAMBRIDGE, MA — An MIT researcher has developed a technique that provides a new way of manipulating heat, allowing it to be controlled much as light waves can be manipulated by lenses and mirrors.
Oxygen to the Core
LIVERMORE, Calif. — An international collaboration including researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has discovered that the Earth's core formed under more oxidizing condition's than previously proposed.