Physical Sciences

NGC 2547- Blue Babies And Red Giants

stars evolve through their lives. The members of a cluster were all born from the same material at about ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2013 - 10:34am

Saturn Still Looks Young And Hot For Its Age

Nature Geoscience says it has some answers. Saturn is known to all by its distinctive rings but less well ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2013 - 11:01am

Colon Simulation Is A Crappy Job

provides a refuge for all the microorganisms within it. When the biofilm matures it sends out bacteria to ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2013 - 9:21am

Demystifying The Five-Sigma Criterion- Part II

all countries, leads to an estimate of 35 million mass combinations calculated per year. How many ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 25 2013 - 4:39am

Less Turbulence: Plasma Actuators Could Mean Quieter Cars And Aircraft

improving energy efficiency all around," Riherd said. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2013 - 8:46pm

Science Play And Research Kit: K’nex Test Tube Rack

since they are simple to build and all based on a basic 555 timer circuit: ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Oct 22 2013 - 1:22pm

The Event From Another World

a second energetic photon. All in all, what experimentalists have in their hands is a spectacularly ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 14 2013 - 11:12pm

The True (but modest) Heroes of Microworld

course, bare particles have spin and other quantum numbers. You may wonder how do we physicists know all ...

Blog Post - Vladimir Kalitvia... - Dec 9 2013 - 8:10am

Top Partners Wanted

bosons, in a way that perfectly cancels out one by one all the large quantum contributions to the Higgs ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 10 2013 - 6:14am

The Death Of The Cosmological Constant: Why Did Einstein Accept An Expanding Universe?

observational data, he had to be convinced his model was unstable. We should all keep that in mind the next time ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2014 - 4:37pm