Neutron stars are the densest ‘normal’ objects known to astrophysicists. Of course, black holes are even denser, but they are certainly far from normal. In fact, scientists believe that the strongest material in the Universe, referred to as “nuclear pasta,” can be found deep inside the ...
Figure 1: Gravitational waves generated by mergers between two neutron stars could reveal the creation of free quarks through such mergers. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab Gravitational waves could reveal whether the quark soup that existed in the early Universe is created...
Carbon nanotubes' outstanding mechanical, electrical and thermal properties make them an alluring material to electronics manufacturers. However, until recently scientists believed that growing the high density of tiny graphene cylinders needed for many microelectronics applications would be difficult. Now a ...
"I like to call this the Little Bang," said Juergen Schukraft, also speaking at the CERN colloquium, suggesting that the violent collisions of heavy ions at the LHC were smaller cousins of the Big Bang explosion that ushered in the visible universe some 14 billion years ago. Indeed, the c...