Physical Sciences

How Many Stars Can Form In A Galaxy?

in turn, is several times larger than the mass of all stars produced in our home galaxy, the Milky ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2013 - 12:36pm

The Plot Of The Week- Search For New Vector-Like Heavy Quarks

branching fraction to bZ a priori. All that CMS assumes is that the sum of branching fractions to bZ and tW ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 26 2013 - 12:59pm

Solar Activity Is Not Influenced By Other Planets In The Solar System

activity after all.  In a new paper, Cameron and Schüssler identify subtle technical errors in the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2013 - 10:06am

Radiation, Quantum Electrodynamics And Information Technology

all elements and thus will be strongly absorbed by all materials, this comes out to an intensity ...

Article - Nightvid Cole - Sep 12 2013 - 7:30pm

Cassini Finds Propylene, A Household Plastic Ingredient, On Titan

"This chemical is all around us in everyday life, strung together in long chains to form a plastic ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2013 - 5:56pm

GRB 130427A: Black Hole Birth Captured By RAPTOR

same time. We had all the assets in place to collect a very detailed data set. These are data that ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2013 - 9:52am

Earth's Van Allen Belts- Particle Accelerators In The Sky

hope for are those serendipitous occasions when nature has accentuated one process above all others, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2013 - 6:30am

Weird World: Kepler-413b

with no transits at all," explained Veselin Kostov, the principal investigator on the observation. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2014 - 2:29pm

Rescinded: Upgrading Newton's Universal Gravity Law using Actions

heavy. Jump on a scale during free fall and see all your weight disappear, even if your mass is ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Mar 26 2014 - 11:54am

Does BPA Make You Fat?

  The conclusion says it all:   “ study design and data quality issues severely limit the utility of the ...

Article - Steve Hentges - Mar 17 2014 - 9:22am