Physical Sciences

Swimming Through Empty Space

us realize that we are still wrestling to understand all the consequences of Einstein's rich ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Jul 25 2009 - 1:07pm

Hitler's Gift To Astronomy

ideas and he had set his mind on creating a place where one could find a replica of all Roman buildings ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Aug 5 2009 - 9:47pm

What Mott Insulators, Wedding Cakes And Quantum Transitions Have In Common

we hope to describe with theory. Every time we think we have extracted all the information we could ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2009 - 1:18pm

The End of Time

the energy produced by the air jets is all that is responsible for the motion of the balls, nothing ...

Blog Post - David Cox - Dec 31 2009 - 8:45pm

Hubble's Panchromatic Capabilities Reveal Unprecedented View Of The Universe

having deep observations at all these wavelengths at the Hubble resolution," says Cohen. Astronomers ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:59pm

What To Do About Near-Earth Objects?

ones if other methods were to fail. Although all of these methods are conceptually valid, none is now ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2010 - 4:28pm

The Plot Of The Week- News On CP Violation

have tried very hard to get to know all we can about K mesons and their CP violation asymmetries, but ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 18 2010 - 9:56am

The Ribbon- Is The Sun About To Enter A Million-Degree Cloud Of Interstellar Gas?

away from the boundary, we would see no Ribbon, because all the ENAs would be re-ionized and dispersed ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2010 - 1:03pm

Pessimist in Elafonisos

chromodynamics, etcetera. But nothing was found beyond the picture we had drawn, and which we already knew all too ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 24 2010 - 6:20am

W And Z Boson Physics Results From CMS

with the Tevatron and UA1/2 measurements (on the left). All in all, a rich bounty of measurements, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 26 2010 - 9:30pm