Physical Sciences

Sunlight Converted To Electricity With Over 40 Percent Efficiency

equivalent to all of the pavement that currently exists. And 20,000 miles of new transmission lines. All ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2014 - 11:48am

The Hard Life Of The Science Outreach Agent

I decided this had not been time wasted after all. Proselitism requires patience, devotion, and ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 17 2015 - 2:49pm

The ATLAS Top Production Asymmetry And One Thing I Do Not Like Of It

electrons, or an electron and a muon, or two muons. All of these leptons, if energetic and isolated from ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 30 2015 - 12:11pm

Classical Gravity, Part 1: The Problems

are all for classical systems, with slow speeds and low mass densities.   The first galaxy scale ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Feb 25 2015 - 12:26pm

ISRO Successfully Tests Its GSLV Mk III Cryogenic Engine

the flight characteristics of the engine. All the major parameters of CE-20 were normal and further ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Mar 16 2015 - 3:02pm

Polar Caps On Pluto?

surface. In all of these images, a mathematical technique called “deconvolution” is used to improve the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2015 - 4:52pm

Sugar Science: Half Of Structural Data On Carbohydrates May Be Flawed

of N-glycan d-pyranosides show a poor fit to the experimental data. Agirre says, “64 percent of all ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2015 - 10:16am

Non-Joulian Magnetostriction May Energize The World

spontaneously expand in all directions, compact omnidirectional actuators can now be easily realized, they say. ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2015 - 9:55pm

2nd law of thermodynamics

work, the organic molecules which made up the oil are all oxidized and converted primarily to CO 2 and ...

Blog Post - Robert Hayes - May 24 2015 - 9:36pm

We Could Find Aliens Any Day Now, SETI Scientists Say

“Wow!” signal was the first detection to pass all of the tests to which it was subjected. Of course, even ...

Article - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jul 12 2015 - 8:52am