Physical Sciences

John Ellis On The Ascent Of The Standard Model

all, it was a very enjoyable summary of 15 exciting years of electroweak physics. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 17 2014 - 4:27am

Small Is Ugly 2

= 10-9 m.) For nanowires, all fluids are hard and terribly sticky. Merely being near a collapsing bubble, ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 26 2014 - 4:37am

The Most Metal-Poor Stars in the Galactic Bulge Found

star,” they conclude. Gaia-ESO is a public spectroscopic survey, systematically covering all major ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Oct 2 2014 - 6:23pm

Antares Rocket Disaster Aftermath

pretty shocked also. Luckily, nobody was hurt and all of the equipment can be replaced.” University of ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Nov 2 2014 - 5:36am

Gravitational Waves Could Unlock Secrets Of The Black Hole Universe

imagine whirling around with the black holes, then it all looks much clearer, and we can write down ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2014 - 9:00am

Introduction To Pulse Width Modulation Using Scratch On The Kano Computer

“MotorA” in the textbox. Click the “OK” button and Scratch will create all the motor control variables for ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Nov 14 2014 - 4:01pm

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