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Kazan Federal University researchers put forth their ideas in Physical Review D.

Artist impression of a massive, dusty galaxy. This is similar to what XMM-2599 looked like in visible light when it was forming its stars.

Uranus (left) and Neptune photographed by Voyager 2.

Artist's illustration of a Neptune-like planet. A new study explores why Neptunes are so rare when their smaller cousins, sub-Neptunes, are very common.

Graphic illustrating radio signals from a remote station (bent purple line) interfering with a local station (black tower) after being reflected off a plasma layer in the ionosphere.

Fig 1: Inflation stretched the initial microscopic Universe to a macroscopic size and turned the cosmic energy into matter. However, it likely created an equal amount of matter and anti-matter predicting complete annihilation of our universe. The authors discuss the possibility that a phase transition after inflation led to a tiny imbalance between the amount of matter and anti-matter, so that some matter could survive a near-complete annihilation. Such a phase transition is likely to lead to a network of "rubber-band"-like objects called cosmic strings, that would produce ripples of space-time known as gravitational waves. These propagating waves can get through the hot and dense Universe and reach us today, 13.8 billion years after the phase transition. Such gravitational waves can most likely be discovered by current and future experiments.

An artist’s impression of K2-18b orbiting K2-18 along with another planet in the system.

Photothermal therapy (PTT) – a proposed treatment for diseases such as antibacterial-resistant infections and cancer – makes use of a chemical agent that absorbs the light of an infrared laser
Scientists at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry have made a biocompatible material that has potential use in medical therapies that deploy near-infrared light to combat antibacterial-resistant infections and cancer.

The cosmic cow explained - radio signals point to an explosion and a newborn magnetar

The white dwarf-pulsar binary system PSR J1141-6545 discovered by the CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope. The pulsar orbits its white dwarf companion every 4.8 hours. The white dwarf’s rapid rotation drags space-time around it, causing the entire orbit to change its orientation.