Physical Sciences

Baryon Oscillations And The Search For Dark Energy

taking advantage of the talents of not just our team, but of all astronomers and also the general ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2009 - 12:00pm

How To Design A Detector, Part One

data, so we need to tune them to the range expected in space.  We want to capture all the data and ...

Article - Project Calliope - Oct 2 2009 - 3:09pm

Astronomers Discover Fog At Titan's South Pole

methane), and all of that excess needs to condense." On Earth, this is the most common method of making ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2010 - 7:53pm

Physics Homework For Your Holidays

intensity of the couplings to all leptons be the same. Also note, the pion has a mass of 139 MeV, the muon ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 29 2009 - 4:13pm

Triggering- The Subtle Art Of Being Picky

favourable circumstances; and the Z boson decays to a pair of muons only 3.3% of the times... All in all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 17 2010 - 1:08pm

Plastic From Glucose

which is the “mother of all” molecules that behave in this way.) <?xml:namespace prefix = v ns ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Mar 2 2010 - 5:35pm

$300m Interstellar Space Dust Discovered by Citizen Scientist

all this important? “All the heavy atoms in this room were in interstellar dust...” enthuses Don ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 6 2010 - 8:27am

Have You Ever Seen A Galaxy?

condensations within the arms, the central bulge, and a few dark bands. All of that was there, for me to enjoy. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 15 2010 - 10:28am

Helium Rain Explains Neon Mystery On Jupiter

elemental abundances until it was crushed under the weight of the atmosphere. All elements seemed to be as ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:05pm

A Problem in Statics

the center of rotations: all forces passing through it have a null effect on the rotation of the body. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 1 2010 - 3:05pm