A new form of matter found?

Scientists may have discovered a new form of matter - they call it a "string-net liquid" and even have speculated that the vacuum of the whole universe may be made from it.



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1300 black holes

A new image from the Chandra observatory found over 1300 black holes in the centers of galaxies billions of light years away. How can black holes be so bright?



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Gyroscopically stabilized CD-player(s) in microgravity

Gyroscopically stabilized CD-player(s) in microgravity onboard the International Space Station.

(April 26, 2003) -- In his final episode of Saturday Morning Science, Expedition Six NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit demonstrates gyroscopic spin stabilization. Pettit floats several portable compact disc players in microgravity that are spinning and not spinning.

Metamaterials found to work for visible light (PhysOrg.com)

Ames Laboratory researchers have found the first metamaterial known to work for visible light, announcing the discovery in the Jan. 5 issue of Science.

For the first time ever, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have developed a material with a negative refractive index for visible light. Ames Laboratory senior physicist Costas Soukoulis, working with colleagues in Karlsruhe, Germany, designed a silver-based, mesh-like material that marks the latest advance in the rapidly evolving field of metamaterials, materials that could lead to a wide range of new applications as varied as ultrahigh-resolution imaging systems and cloaking devices.

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NASA Announces Dark Matter Discovery

Astronomers who used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 21, to announce how dark and normal matter have been forced apart in an extraordinarily energetic collision.

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