Scientists Spin Molecules Inside a Frictionless Superfluid for the First Time

A newly designed optical centrifuge allows scientists to control molecular rotation inside superfluid helium nano-droplets.
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Japanese supercomputer challenges 45-year-old theory about how sun-like stars spin

For nearly half a century, astronomers have believed that stars like our sun eventually ...
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Sunlike stars may spin the same for life, defying 45 years of theory

A team of researchers at Nagoya University has used Japan’s most powerful supercomputer to show that Sun-like stars likely keep the same internal spin pattern for their entire lives, a finding that ...

Stars like our sun may maintain the same rotation pattern for life, contrary to 45 years of theoretical predictions

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved ...