Physical Sciences

The LED Turns 50: An Interview With Inventor Nick Holonyak

all that we were going to do,” says Holonyak, now 83 years old but still teaching engineering at the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2012 - 4:30pm

Recent CMS Results

a quote, forgiving myself for self-quoting (hey this is my blog after all): it is just the ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 26 2012 - 9:35am

LHCb: Evidence For Rare Decay Bs To Dimuons

effect. For more information on the analysis, see here. Tomorrow a seminar at CERN will provide all the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 12 2012 - 12:01pm

How To Simulate The Weightlessness Of Space On A Budget

without hours spent in the gym? The healthy volunteers will participate in all the regimes one after the ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2012 - 11:05am

W44: Stellar Life And Death In The Constellation Of Aquila

molecular cloud. All that remains of the stellar behemoth is the spinning core of a neutron star, or pulsar. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2012 - 6:30am

A Sudden Burgeoning Into Space? From Astronomy To SETI And The Commercialization Of Space...

billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Paul Allen, who have projects of their own. Is all of this happening because ...

Article - David Brin - Nov 20 2012 - 3:21pm

Can Life Emerge On Planets Around Cooling Stars?

removes the planet's surface water and all chance of life — of habitability — is forever lost. White ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 30 2012 - 4:30am

Greenhouse Gas Fluoroform May Become Reagent For Producing Pharmaceuticals

on the market today contain at least one fluorine atom and fluorine can be found in all different ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2012 - 6:00am

On Combining Probabilities And A-Posterioriness

"what is the chance that five numbers between zero and one are all smaller than 0.25?", which is ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 10 2012 - 5:47am

Quantum Entanglement: A Third Entangled Particle?

researcher at the University of Calgary. "It is exciting, after all this time, to be able to finally ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2012 - 4:01am