Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have discovered a rocky planet about the same mass as Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system – the closest star system to Earth. Details of the discovery appear in the journal Nature. Alpha Centauri is one of the brightest objects in the southern sky and […]
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have literally found a back-door to an otherwise rock-solid physical tenet. They have discovered how to increase the speed of light – 186,282.397 miles per second in a vacuum – by making it travel in reverse. Lead researcher Costas Soukoulis, physicist and ISU Distinguished Professor of […]
