Microscopic view on asteroid collisions could help us understand planet formation
A new way of dating collisions between asteroids and planetary bodies throughout our Solar System’s history could help scientists reconstruct how and when planets were born. A team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, combined dating and microscopic analysis of the Chelyabinsk meteorite — which fell to Earth and hit the headlines in […]
Collisions of light produce matter/antimatter from pure energy
Scientists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) — a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory — have produced definitive evidence for two physics phenomena predicted more than 80 years ago. The results were derived from a detailed analysis of […]