Researchers almost catch a glimpse of the ravenous vortexes in the Universe which don't even let light escape their gravitational grip

Sharper limits set on how much quantities so far considered to have a fixed value can vary

An unexplored region of the electromagnetic spectrum is to be exploited for imaging

Using light instead of electrons in circuits

Researchers at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, have photographed images of the growth of Helium-3 crystals. The crystals, grown at a temperature of 0.001' Kelvin - close to the lowest

One ofthe most controversial of scientific projects, Gravity Probe-B, has won the approval of an expert panel of the National Academy of Sciences. The project, proposed by Stanfora physicist

A whole issue of the journal Annals ofMathematics is to be devoted to a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, arguably the most famous of mathematical problems (Science, Vol 268, No 5214). The proof,

Science's search for the Holy Grail finally comes to an end with the uncovering of the 5th state of matter

Can a cat be both dead and alive at the same time? If you believe the classic interpretation of quantum physics, it can. But several scientists are now unwilling to continue their suspension of disbelief

All of us are familiar with real numbers. But numbers having both real and imaginary parts are called complex numbers. A complex number (y) can be denoted as y=a+ib Where a and b are real numbers

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