Study sheds light on dark matter

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British astronomers say they have, for the first time, determined some of the physical characteristics of dark matter.


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Researchers develop breakthrough technique to unlock the secret of plasmas

Nov 21, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
University of British Columbia researchers have developed a technique that brings scientists a big step closer to unlocking the secrets of the most abundant form of matter in the universe.

Scientists See New Mechanism for Superconductivity

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have posited an explanation for superconductivity that may open the door to the discovery of new, unconventional forms of superconductivity.

Putting an end to turbulence

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When a flow reaches a certain speed, things get turbulent: The fluid or the gas no longer flows in an orderly fashion but whirls around wildly. However, in contrast to what researchers assumed until now, this ...

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Makes Some Noise

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of physicists studying heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a large particle accelerator located on Long Island, New York, recently showed that the collisions ...

Supercontinuum generation and soliton dynamics milestone achieved

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A research team led by Fetah Benabid, University of Bath, has observed for the first time the simultaneous emission of two resonant dispersive waves by optical solitons (waves that maintain their shape while traveling at ...
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