Physical Sciences

Diffuse Interstellar Bands: Material Mystery In The Milky Way

"There's an old saying that 'We are all stardust,' since all chemical elements heavier than ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2014 - 1:23pm

Holographic Noise Speculation: Maybe You Are A 2-D Hologram

"Holographic noise" is expected to be present at all frequencies, but the scientists' challenge is ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2014 - 6:06pm

Proton-Proton Fusion: Looking Into The Heart Of The Sun

find on Earth. "We needed this because we want all the Carbon-14 to have decayed, or as much of it ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2014 - 1:19pm

Is This Dark Matter?

demonstrated that the flavor-mixed, two-component dark matter model resolved all the most pressing Lambda-CDM ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2014 - 12:10pm

No Moses Needed: Researchers Part Water With Electric Prism

are essential to all life. A method known as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2014 - 10:43am

HAT-P-11b: Smallest Exoplanet With Water Vapor Found

starlight, leaving distinct signatures in the light that reaches our telescopes.  The results from all three ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2014 - 12:14pm

DDO 68: A Galaxy Of Deception

us and appear very small and faint in the images. On the contrary, all the galaxies near to us appear ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2014 - 11:00am

How The Atmosphere Produces Its 'Detergent'

of it in the atmosphere?' They're reacting away all of the time, so they must be constantly ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2014 - 3:00pm

Richard Branson Arrives at the SpaceShipTwo Crash Site, Investigation Underway

families of the pilots, and all those affected by this tragedy. ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Nov 2 2014 - 3:34pm

Why Rosetta Is The Greatest Space Mission Of Our Lifetime

to land, all manner of things can go wrong. The gravity of 67P is so small that Philae could hit the ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 6 2014 - 7:30am