In The News: Department of Physics and Astronomy
It’s called a circumtriple planet, and evidence that one exists suggests that planet formation is less unusual than once believed.
Native American enrollment is down at Nevada colleges, a trend students and professors say reflects an unwelcoming community that’s not committed to recruiting more familiar faces on campus.
This chip manufacturing shortage presents a premier opportunity for economic development in the Silver State.
A new record for the temperature at which materials have superconductivity and has developed a novel way to synthesize superconducting materials at lower pressures than previously reported.
A new record for the temperature at which materials have superconductivity and has developed a novel way to synthesize superconducting materials at lower pressures than previously reported.
Laser pincers that could fetch antimatter, a squishy insulator that can shapeshift into a conductor, and a 3D map of a tiny chunk of a mouse’s brain could help make AI smarter. This week’s coolest things go big by going small.
A surprisingly short gamma-ray burst has astronomers rethinking what triggers these celestial cataclysms.
Remarkable things happen when a “squishy” compound of manganese and sulfide (MnS2) is compressed in a diamond anvil, researchers report.
Astronomers observe long bursts in association with the demise of massive stars.
A fizzled example of a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion known in the universe, suggests these outbursts may not always work the way that scientists thought, and that versions of these flares can be surprisingly brief, researchers say.
As a compound of manganese sulfide is compressed in a diamond anvil cell, it undergoes dramatic transitions.
Lasting only about a second, it turned out to be one of the record books – the shortest gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the death of a massive star ever seen.