Star signs first light in cosmos
Simulations suggest that an enormous lone star was the first entity in the Universe
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Simulations suggest that an enormous lone star was the first entity in the Universe
Read article: Star signs first light in cosmos
Japan's Super-Kamiokande experiment is dealt a crippling blow
Read article: Accident grounds neutrino lab
Lasers show that complex `many-body' effects in matter take just femtoseconds to emerge
Read article: Quickening pulses probe plasma
Astronomers witness a fleeting stage of star death that may have started just a few years ago
Read article: Old star caught in the act
Basic physics explains the complex songs of birds
Read article: Canaries sing simple harmonics
Single-molecule transistors and nanowire circuits make their debut
Read article: Shrinking electronics charges ahead
Glowing gas around a black hole gives astronomers new insights
Read article: Fresh light shed on black holes
The Universe in a Nutshell is 'a delight to read'
Read article: Rave review for Hawking’s new book
There has been a growing awareness in the scientific community – and to some degree among the reading public – that the Sun is a marvellously variable and mysterious object about which we have only a limited understanding. The standard theoretical model of the solar interior has now been verified through helioseismology to an accuracy […]
In 1924 the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose sent a paper to Einstein in which he derived the Planck law for black-body radiation by treating the photons as a gas of identical particles. Einstein arranged for Bose’s paper to be translated into German and published. He also extended Bose’s calculations to particles with mass and […]
Read article: Condensates reap Nobel reward