Physical Sciences

NGC 3603 Shows Off Family Picture Of Stars In Different Life Stages

nearing the end of their life. All these stars have roughly the same age, a million years, a blink of an ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:01pm

Who Pooed On My Plot? The Evolution Of Scatology In Data Visualization

around all over the horizontal axis. Those entries should not have been there, apparently, since he said ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 17 2010 - 6:06am

Why Do Astronomy?

just found it really, really interesting and wanted to do more of it all of the time", ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Feb 19 2010 - 3:30pm

Surfer Dude's Theory Of Everything Refuted, Mathematician Says

put all four of the chairs inside it. The problem with 'the theory of everything' is that ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2010 - 12:38pm

Our Universe At Home Within Larger Universe, Physicist Says

claims all information about matter is lost as it goes over the event horizon (in turn defying the laws ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2010 - 3:54pm

ESA's CryoSat-2 Ice Satellite Launched

km being covered. This extra coverage amounts to an area larger than all 27 European Union member ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2010 - 6:58pm

NASA's Moon Missions Launch Pad Leader, Guenter Wendt, Dies At 85

command module and claimed the lives of all the astronauts inside. "I remember the sudden weight ...

Article - Richard Mankiewicz - May 3 2010 - 2:20pm

Silver And Earth's Volatile Origins

for all the volatiles, including water, on the Earth today. ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2010 - 1:54pm

A Dispensable Discovery

about, after all? Okay, I will describe it in short, but first let me quote from the Abstract: "A ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 18 2010 - 10:16am

Pyrophosphite: Energy Source For Early Life?

properties of both ATP and pyrophosphite is an element called phosphorus, which is essential for all living ...

Article - News Staff - May 25 2010 - 12:42pm