The drifting star
By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harboring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades...
Dark Matter Disk In Our Galaxy, Supercomputer...
The Milky Way contains a disk of "dark matter," according to new calculations by astronomers. They have used the results of a supercomputer simulation to deduce the presence of this disk.
Planet formation could lie in stellar storms rather...
(San Francisco State University) New research suggests that turbulence plays a critical role in creating ripe conditions for the birth of planets. The study, to be published in the...
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from...
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman’s volume has changed the way we think about and treat...
Four Laws That Drive the Universe
The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas to the cooling of hot metal, and from the unfurling of a leaf to the...
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