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Physics and Astronomy News Archive: January 2016

Space-Time Continuum Rainbow

Source: U of Warsaw Posted: 1/17/16

Physicists have shown that in models of the Universe using any of the quantum theories of gravity there must also be a 'rainbow' of sorts, composed of different versions of spacetime.

New Theory of Secondary Inflation

Source: BNL Posted: 1/15/16

Physicists suggest a smaller secondary inflationary period in the moments after the Big Bang could account for the abundance of the mysterious matter.

A new way to store solar heat

Source: MIT Posted: 1/15/16

Material could harvest sunlight by day, release heat on demand hours or days later.

New Evidence About Star and Planet Formation

Source: NRAO Posted: 1/10/16

A study of young stars and their surroundings has produced dramatic new evidence about how multiple-star systems form.

'In a way science is a key to the gates of heaven, and the same key opens the gates of hell, and we do not have any instructions as to which is which gate. Shall we throw away the key and never have a way to enter the gates of heaven? Or shall we struggle with the problem of which is the best way to use the key?'

Richard Feynman
(1918-1988)