Recent data from the cosmic microwave background add further weight to the inflationary big-bang model. But more precise measurements from NASA’s MAP satellite, which is due to be launched this month, ...

Freak waves towering as much as 30 m above the surrounding seas have long been reported by mariners, and recent satellite studies have shown that they are more common that previously expected. Now, a ...

An international research team may have unlocked the path to quantum information processing by switching an electron’s intrinsic property of being in an excited state to a relaxed state with the use ...

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to John C. Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and George F. Smoot of the University of ...

Could microwaves harbor the potential to inactivate viral aerosol particles and stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2? New research published in AIP Publishing’s Review of Scientific Instruments suggests that ...

The magneto-resistance of high-mobility two-dimensional electron systems exposed to microwaves exhibits radiation-induced oscillations with some minima approaching zero within experimental accuracy.

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