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Telescopes around the world are capturing photons from the blast, and researchers anticipate exciting discoveries ahead.

Telescopes around the world are capturing photons from the blast, and researchers anticipate exciting discoveries ahead.

New experiments seem to show that quarks respond more than expected to an electric field pulling on them. The result suggests that the strong force isn’t quite as strong as theory predicts.

Researchers from six U.K. universities will crunch data and build new instrumentation for the Simons Observatory, a group of telescopes that scan the heavens from a vantage point on Cerro Toco, 5,300 meters above the Atacama desert in Chile.

About 800,000 cells linked to a computer gradually learned to sense the position of the game's electronic ball and control a virtual paddle, a team Cortical Labs in Melbourne, Australia reported recently in the journal Neuron.

CCA's Adrian Price-Whelan is among the early-career researchers recognized by Astronomy magazine for making an impact in their field.

Gravity rules outer space, whereas quantum mechanics rules inner space, the arena of atoms and elementary particles. The two realms long seemed to have nothing to do with each other, but a blizzard of research in the last decade on the inner lives of black holes has revealed unexpected connections between the two views of the cosmos.

Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their experiments with entangled photons, in which particles of light become inextricably linked. Such experiments have laid the foundations for an abundance of quantum technologies, including quantum computers and communications. Aspect is a principal investigator for the Simons Collaboration on Localization of Waves.

Like the formation of constellations from stars, topological data analysis helps mathematicians build revealing shapes from scattered dots — finding patterns in the brain, drugs and evolution.

Research has demonstrated that biological cells actively change shape to respond to their surroundings when moving in confined regions.