from Nature 522, 259 (18 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522259a Astronomers have seen their best glimpse yet of stars forming in the early Universe. The ALMA radio telescope in Chile explored the […]
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A Mars-sized exoplanet
by Gregory Laughlin from Nature 522, 290–291 (18 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522290a Analysis of Kepler data has yielded the smallest known mass for an exoplanet orbiting a normal star. Its mass […]
Megaflare seen on star surface
from Nature 522, 131 (11 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522131d Astronomers have spotted an enormous surge of light and magnetic energy on a nearby star. A team led by Wouter Vlemmings at […]
Pluto leads the way in planet formation
by Scott J. Kenyon from Nature 522, 40–41 (04 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522040a Images from the Hubble Space Telescope cast new light on the orbits, shapes and sizes of Pluto’s small […]
Squeezed ions in two places at once
by Tracy Northup from Nature 521, 295–296 (21 May 2015) doi:10.1038/521295a Experiments on a trapped calcium ion have again exposed the strange nature of quantum phenomena, and could pave the […]
The slow death of red galaxies
by Andrea Cattaneo from Nature 521, 164–165 (14 May 2015) doi:10.1038/521164a For most galaxies, the shutdown of star formation was a slow process that took 4 billion years. An analysis […]
Many flavours of supernova
from Nature 520, 411 (23 April 2015) doi:10.1038/520411d Exploding stars grouped in one family because of their similarities actually form two distinct groups. This may have important cosmic implications because […]
Physics paper sets record with more than 5,000 authors
by Davide Castelvecchi from Nature doi:10.1038/nature.2015.17567 Detector teams at the Large Hadron Collider collaborated for a more precise estimate of the size of the Higgs boson. A physics paper with […]
Proton smasher spots rare particle decays
by Daria Zieminska from Nature (2015) doi:10.1038/nature14520 The extremely rare decays of particles known as neutral B mesons have been observed at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The result may be […]
Inge Lehmann
by Bruce A. Bolt from Physics Today, 1994 Inge Lehmann died in Copenhagen on 21 February 1993, three months short of age 105. Born in 0sterbro, Denmark, Lehmann graduated in […]
Neutrinos from a galaxy far away
Nature 520, 266 (16 April 2015) doi:10.1038/520266b Two of the most energetic neutrinos detected by a telescope in the Antarctic may have come from the cores of distant galaxies. Neutrinos […]
Hubble’s hits and beyond
from Hubble’s legacy by Mario Livio In-flight servicing has prolonged the space telescope’s life, paving the way for future missions. 1990 The Hubble Space Telescope is launched on the space […]
Atomic doughnuts from single photons
by James K. Thompson from Nature 519, 420–422 (26 March 2015), doi:10.1038/519420b Analysis of the interaction between a photon and an ensemble of some 3,000 atoms trapped between two mirrors […]
Mathematical computing in theoretical studies
by B Lautrup from CERN Courier Volume 12, Number 3, March 1972 (pdf) Theoretical physicists mostly use the computer facilities for numerical evaluation of theories in order to compare theory […]