The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant reveals that massive exploding stars can forge far more of life's essential ingredients ...

UC Santa Barbara Physicist Boris Shraiman has led an intellectually peripatetic career, to great satisfaction, success and acclaim.

An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.

The logic behind the researchers’ approach was straightforward. If scalar particles interact strongly with nucleons, neutron ...

New technology is helping astronomers open new windows into novae, stellar explosions that can act as 'laboratories for ...

When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma-the oft-forgotten fourth state of matter (along ...

The Oberlin Review and The Grape are the most well-known Oberlin publications. Since 1874 and 1999 respectively, they have been institutions of journalism on campus, with the Review being a ...

History informs that experts, in all disciplines, have adhered to and applied the principles of universal truths.

Theoretical chemist’s insights are now embedded into computer software used to predict the behaviour of molecules from pharmaceuticals to construction materials ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

The usual rule-of-thumb cutoff point for when you’re paying more than you probably can afford for rent or mortgage is about ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to ...