It is a mystery that has stymied astrophysicists for decades:
how do black holes produce so many high-power X-rays? It won't
come as much of a surprise to most dog owners, but new research
has shown that man's best friend is a lot more likely to steal
food when nobody's looking, suggesting for the first time that
dogs can understand a human's point of view. Astronomers have
measured the light from the very earliest stars, working out for
the first time the total amount of light from all the stars that
have ever shone. NASA scientists have, for the first time, seen
the light from a planet outside our solar system that's a
similar size to the Earth. Researchers at the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) have worked out a way to
produce light pulses that - in a way - travel faster than the
speed of light. For innumerable decades, drivers have attempted
to set their vehicles apart from the rest by customizing their
ride with everything from wheels to paint. BASF and Philips have
developed an OLE