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Atom Interferometry - Detecting The Undetectable

Atom Interferometry - Detecting The Undetectable

Oct 19 2012 | comment(s)

If one beam travels a fixed length and another travels an extra distance or in some other slightly different way, the two light beams overlap and interfere when they meet up, creating an interference pattern that scientists inspect to obtain highly precise measurements.
Helmets: How Vibrations From Football Hits Wobble The Brain

Helmets: How Vibrations From Football Hits Wobble The Brain

Oct 19 2012 | comment(s)

It's football season so along with cheers and yelling you will hear a more dangerous sound; the sharp crack of helmet-to-helmet collisions. Hard collisions can lead to player concussions but the physics of how the impact of a helmet hit transfers to the brain is not yet well understood. 

A research team has created a simplified experimental model of the brain and skull inside a helmet during a helmet-to-helmet collision. The model illustrates how the fast vibrational motion of the hit translates into a sloshing motion of the brain inside the skull. 
NGC 660 And A Rare Polar-Ring Galaxy

NGC 660 And A Rare Polar-Ring Galaxy

Oct 19 2012 | comment(s)

A Gemini Legacy image has captured the colorful and dramatic tale of a life-and-death struggle between two galaxies interacting. All the action appears in a single frame, with the stunning polar-ring galaxy NGC 660 as the focus of attention. 
Wind Shear Fights Tropical Storm Maria

Wind Shear Fights Tropical Storm Maria

Oct 19 2012 | comment(s)

Tropical Storm Maria is moving away from Japan and strong wind shear is pushing its rainfall east of the storm's center, with no areas of heavy rain remaining in the tropical cyclone. The low-level center of the storm is now exposed and a wind shear greater than 30 knots (34.5 mph) continues to further weaken the storm.
The Weird Grey Area Between Primordial Plasma And Ordinary Matter

The Weird Grey Area Between Primordial Plasma And Ordinary Matter

Oct 18 2012 | comment(s)

Physicists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) recently observed first glimpses of a possible boundary separating ordinary nuclear matter, composed of protons and neutrons we know today, from the odd, seething soup of their constituent quarks and gluons that permeated the early universe some 14 billion years ago.

The RHIC physicists have been creating and studying this primordial quark-gluon plasma (QGP) for a while but the data they presented at the Quark Matter 2012 international conference from systematic studies varied the energy and types of colliding ions to create this new form of matter under a broad range of initial conditions, allowing the experimenters to unravel its properties.
Barley Genome Deciphered

Barley Genome Deciphered

Oct 18 2012 | comment(s)

An international research effort has resulted in an integrated physical, genetic and functional sequence assembly of the barley genome, which could lead to higher yields, improved pest- and disease-resistance and enhanced nutritional value of crops.