Apr 7, 2025 by News Staff

Using Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s 88-Inch Cyclotron, an international team of physicists has successfully made two atoms of livermorium (atomic...

Feb 18, 2025 by News Staff

Ultrahot Jupiters, an extreme class of planets not found in our Solar System, provide a unique window into atmospheric processes. Using four telescope...

Apr 23, 2024 by News Staff

Goldene in the form of gold monolayer sheets has been prepared by etching away titanium carbide (Ti3C2) slabs from titanium gold carbide (Ti3AuC2). Preparation...

Jan 15, 2024 by News Staff

New research from the University of Bristol sheds light on the origin of titanium-rich basaltic magmas on the Moon. A map of the titanium abundances of...

Jan 8, 2024 by News Staff

New research suggests that the Green Monster — a curious structure first spotted in Webb data in April 2023 — came from that blast wave slamming...

Jul 10, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Aside from the Moon, the brightest object in our night sky is planet Venus, whose thick cloud layer reflects around 75% of the Sun’s light. By comparison,...

Oct 13, 2022 by News Staff

Barium, a chemical element with the symbol Ba and atomic number 56, is the heaviest element detected to date in any exoplanetary atmosphere. This artist’s...

Sep 15, 2022 by News Staff

The final results from CNES’ MICROSCOPE (MICROSatellite with Compensated drag for the Observation of the Principle of Equivalence) space mission —...

Feb 23, 2022 by News Staff

Using data collected by the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) infrared spectrograph onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have obtained a detailed...

Jan 28, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The temperature of a planet’s atmosphere decreases with increasing altitude, unless a shortwave absorber that causes a temperature inversion exists....

Apr 28, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have detected stable titanium, along with chromium and iron, blasting out from the center of the supernova...

Jul 2, 2020 by News Staff

Using data from the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument onboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a team of U.S. researchers has...

Feb 19, 2020 by News Staff

A team of U.S. physicists and materials scientists has observed a new state of matter at the interface between two oxide materials: lanthanum aluminate...

Jul 3, 2019 by News Staff

A team of experimental physicists from the Institute for Basic Science, the Ewha Womans University and the IBM Almaden Research Center has performed the...

Mar 26, 2019 by News Staff

Stimulation with ultrafast light pulses can realize and manipulate states of matter with emergent structural, electronic and magnetic phenomena. According...

Aug 16, 2018 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have detected atomic iron and titanium in the atmosphere of KELT-9b, a gas giant exoplanet orbiting a star in the constellation Cygnus, about...

Dec 11, 2017 by News Staff

New research led by a University of Illinois physicist has proved the existence of a new form of matter — ‘excitonium,’ a solid crystal of excitons....

Sep 14, 2017 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected titanium oxide in the atmosphere of the hot-Jupiter exoplanet WASP-19b. An artist’s...

Aug 3, 2017 by News Staff

An international research team led by University of Exeter astronomer Dr. Tom Evans has revealed a stratosphere containing water and possibly oxides of...

Jul 25, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new biocompatible alloy has been developed, and it’s about 3-4 times harder than most steels and pure titanium. Crystal structure of beta-Ti3Au (blue...