Physical Sciences

Millisecond Pulsars Could Make 'Galactic GPS' Possible

millisecond pulsars spread all over the sky, we may be able to detect the cumulative background of passing ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2010 - 5:04pm

It From Bit: The Case Of Gravity

the case. Key is that one needs to follow a holographic approach with all bits describing reality ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Jan 8 2010 - 2:00am

Does Spiderman Get Wet?

reducing the friction of liquid flow into small channels. What is common to all three papers here is that ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Mar 5 2010 - 4:24pm

Spacepunk: A Wooden Satellite?

water from the wood.  All materials in space outgas, which is to say, the components that are liquid (at ...

Article - Project Calliope - Apr 13 2010 - 1:33pm

Plot Of The Week: Exclusive Diagrams

creating interesting final states, without being affected other than in their total energy. All of the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2010 - 9:28am

Watch The Perseids Tonight!

August), you need to know where the constellation of Perseus is: all meteors from the Perseid stream will ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 12 2010 - 2:13am

Another Week On Shift For CDF

in these last few years. Belonging or detachment? Most of all, pride. If there is something I am ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 3 2010 - 10:59am

How Planes Fly Or How Polarized Debates Are Wrong Versus Wrong

most undergraduate students even in physics could easily spot, but three forces that all ensure the ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Dec 27 2010 - 4:52pm

My Dark Beam Ice Cube Torch

If you include all the light that is already present due to the thermal radiation, an ice cube torch ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Aug 3 2015 - 7:20pm

Falling Faster Than Freefall- No, Rotating Faster Than A Free Fall

they are not all falling, the plank is mainly rotating. I have actually made a plank (in the simulator) ...

Article - Ladislav Kocbach - Jan 21 2011 - 5:50am