Physical Sciences

Lunar Peak Of Eternal Light Gets 3-D Pictures

peak illuminated from different angles. They mapped all the pixels onto a grid, defining the bright and ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2008 - 11:21pm

Dark Energy? No, Phantom Energy, Say These Cosmologists

of it all. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2008 - 8:46pm

Circuit Engineering Technique Helps Identify Disease-Causing Genes

for the original problem," he said. "This is what cross-disciplinary research is all ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2008 - 12:45am

Boosting Solar Cells With Nanoparticles

a meter in size) metal particles are placed onto a solar cell. First of all, the use of nanoparticles ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2008 - 9:55pm

Lorentz Invariance Abnormality Could Overturn Building Block Of Einstein's Relativity, Say Physicists

called the Standard Model Extension, developed by Kostelecky to describe all hypothetical relativity ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2009 - 4:44pm

Unraveling The Mysteries Of Camouflage

animal's body. These two metrics allow them to broadly sort all kinds of photographs of animal camouflage ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2009 - 2:58pm

311 days left in the IYA

Will we recognize it on another world if we stumble across it? Are there biological laws that make all ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Feb 23 2009 - 5:16pm

Spacecakewalk!

worried. Fortunately, all is on schedule and EVA 3 went extremely smoothly.  The hardest part for Grunsfeld ...

Article - Dan Coe - May 18 2009 - 8:06pm

Balloon Science In "Up"

* Yes, it's just coincidence.  This is a science column, after all. Final note: if you like this ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jun 16 2009 - 3:21pm

Century Old Materials Mystery Solved: Grain Boundary Formation Shows Similarities Of Metal And Glass

strikingly similar. For all intents and purposes, grain boundaries are a type of glass.”  Douglas says the ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2009 - 10:24am