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are testing the power of holography to artificially stimulate cells in the eye, with hopes of developing a new strategy for bionic vision restoration

optogenetics

Planets in tight orbits around stars that get ejected from our galaxy may actually themselves be tossed out of the Milky Way at blisteringly fast speeds of up to 30 million miles per hour, or a fraction of the speed of light, a new study finds.

would be some of the fastest objects in the galaxy, aside from photons

In terms of large, solid objects, they would be the fastest. It would take them 10 seconds or so to cross the diameter of the Earth

Five different teams of physicists have now independently verified that elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos do not travel faster than light

instead of the nail in the coffin of faster-than-light neutrinos, the new suite of results is more like the sod planted atop their grave

OPERA team also discovered that a loose fiber optic cable had introduced a delay in their timing system that explained the effect

During low-light conditions, drivers rely mainly on headlights to see the road but the same headlights reduce visibility when light is reflected off of precipitation back to the driver

Carnegie Mellon professor and his team

Computer science professor Srinivasa Narasimhan

an international team

, has for the first time measured the radius of a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy—the closest distance at which matter can approach before being irretrievably pulled into the black hole.

scientists linked together radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a telescope array called the "Event Horizon Telescope" (EHT) that can see details 2,000 times finer than what's visible to the Hubble Space Telescope.

The large quasar group (LQG) is so large that it would take a vehicle travelling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross it.

Quasars are the nuclei of galaxies from the early days of the universe that undergo brief periods of extremely high brightness that make them visible across huge distances.

'brief' in astrophysics terms but actually last 10-100 million years.

Astrophysicists have managed to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos

nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball

In this particular study, the researchers observed 28 very high-energy particle events with the use of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica

do not occur in nature and must be produced through experiments involving nuclear reactors or particle accelerators

via processes of nuclear fusion or neutron absorption

Elements 93 to 103 were discovered by the Americans, elements 104 to 106 by the Russians and the Americans, elements 107 to 112 by the Germans, and the two most recently named elements, 114 and 116, by cooperative work of the Russians and Americans.

Gamma-Ray Burst

Gamma-ray bursts are extremely powerful, estimated to have 10 quadrillion times more energy than our sun

They are created by the collision of two collapsed stars

The World Cup opening ceremony

June 12

a standout for athletes and their fans but yet another eye-opener may make the Sao Paulo stadium opener long remembered globally

Japanese researchers claim they’ve seen conclusive evidence of the long-sought element 113, a super-heavy, super-unstable element near the bottom of the periodic table

not yet verified by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

if the IUPAC grants its blessing, the researchers could be the first team from Asia to name one of nature’s fundamental atoms.

Supernova

In 1006, Chinese and Arabic astronomers noted a supernova. The speed of the still-expanding shock wave was measured nearly a millenium later.* This is was history's brightest "new star" ever recorded, at first seen to be brighter than the planet Venus. It occurred in our Milky Way galaxy, appearing in the southern constellation Lupus, near the star Beta Lupi. It was also recorded by observers in Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Egypt and Iraq. From the careful descriptions of the Chinese astronomers of how the light varied, that it was of apparently yellow color and visible for over a year, it is possible that the supernova reached a magnitude of up to -9. Modern measurements of the speed of the shock wave have been used to estimate its distance

highest leap in human spaceflight in nearly 4 decades when an unmanned Orion crew capsule blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a high stakes, high altitude test flight in early 2014.

narrated animation (see below) released by NASA depicts the planned 2014 launch of the Orion spacecraft on the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) mission to the highest altitude orbit reached by a spaceship intended for humans since the Apollo Moon landing Era.

launch atop a Delta 4 Heavy booster rocket

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has long relied on technology to help him connect with the outside world despite the degenerative motor neuron disease he has battled for the past 50 years

a highly respected computer scientist indicated at last week’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that he and his team may be close to a breakthrough that could boost the rate at which the physicist communicates, which has fallen to a mere one word per minute in recent years.

For the past decade Hawking has used a voluntary twitch of his cheek muscle to compose words and sentences one letter at a time that are expressed through a speech-generation device connected to his computer.

The fall of such a large meteor estimated as weighing dozens of tonnes was extremely rare

950 people were injured, with two-thirds of the injuries light wounds from glass shards and other materials blown out by the shockwave

the ministry saying almost 300 buildings were damaged including schools, hospitals, a zinc factory and even an ice hockey stadium