Physical Sciences

2012 Wolf Prize In Physics

Penrose and Stephen Hawking, all of them earlier recipients of this prize. Why all these Wolf Prizes for ...

Blog Post - Johannes Koelman - Feb 16 2012 - 3:42am

Orbital Debris And Space Weather?

available this summer.  All the O'Reilly books are available as eBooks or print copies, and I hope you ...

Article - Project Calliope - May 8 2012 - 1:10pm

Not Afraid Of The Dark: Dark Energy

usual for all kinds of energies; in fact, one cannot see any energy as such. A bigger problem with the ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 23 2012 - 9:35am

Weekend Science: Will Your Beer Survive A Nuclear Blast?

to include real-life objects like beer.  There was no numerical testing then, it was all ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:25pm

Dark Matter Is Universally Important But We Are No Closer To Finding It

Chicago. "And now, they do. And all of them believe we can solve the problem soon." Also offering ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2012 - 6:02pm

Cosmology in context: A summary of big bang, inflationary cosmology.

advantage of being defended and, if all goes to plan, passed.  It will have the disadvantage of being locked ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 4 2013 - 10:45am

The Quote Of The Week- Detecting Cosmic Rays With Pee

potenziale positivo e nella cuffia connessa all’anodo si ascolta un “tic”. [...] Le resistenze di elevato ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 7 2013 - 9:24am

What's Still Powering Supernova Remnant 1987A?

emissions at all? That's still a mystery. The team suspects a compact source or pulsar wind nebula to ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2013 - 9:45am

Sterile Neutrinos: Toward A Clarifying Experiment

massive than all others and "sterile", in the sense that it does not interact with ordinary ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 9 2013 - 2:12pm

The Red Giant That Powers The Toby Jug Nebula

stellar inflation will destroy all life on Earth and evaporate the water in the oceans, before the entire ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2013 - 3:33pm