Researchers have detected what is now the most energetic light that has ever been found by humans. Astrophysicists have been trying to work out why and how the universe produces this energetic light ...

A team of scientists from Japan's RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics have revealed how carbon nanotubes emit more energetic light than the light they absorb. Since materials typically emit less ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA has detected the most energetic light ever seen on Jupiter and, in the process, solved a ...

Scientists have observed some incredibly energetic light coming from a nearby pulsar, the highest-ever from this type of star and close to the highest-ever seen from a cosmic source. Each photon had ...

The cosmos keeps outdoing itself. Extremely energetic light from space is an unexplained wonder of astrophysics, and now scientists have spotted this light, called gamma rays, at higher energies than ...

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