In The News: Department of Physics and Astronomy
An exoplanet is said to orbit three stars at once. However, it poses a whole series of other questions to scientists.
New research suggests an exoplanet in the GW Ori star system might be orbiting three stars at once.
GW Ori is a star system 1,300 light years from Earth in the constellation of Orion. But fascinatingly, it is a system with not one star, but three.
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.