An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

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In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

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A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

Boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones – this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...

A laser is usually constructed from two basic elements: a material that provides optical gain through stimulated emission and an optical cavity that partially traps the light. When the total gain in ...

During this time, advancing optical technology repeatedly opened new sub-fields of atomic, molecular and solid-state science, most notably real-time chemistry 4. It also became possible to do ...

By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most ...