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Our eyes are tuned to only a tiny proportion of the electromagnetic spectrum, but it’s where the Sun is brightest.
Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff thought to make up more than ...
It’s that time of the year. The leaves are starting to change colors. This week the National Weather Service in Atlanta ...
Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...
ORCs are vast, faint rings of radio energy that surround galaxies and can be detected only in radio wavelengths of the ...
Researchers have found a new way to turn low-frequency light into higher-frequency terahertz waves using special quantum ...
Electromagnetic radiation, in all its forms, permeates every corner of the Universe, acting as the great messenger of cosmic phenomena. If we could perceive the sky in radio waves, our view would be ...
Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...
Not only are they supermassive black holes, but they crate a unique "wagging tail" of super-charged particles.
Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy — a ...