Physical Sciences

Liquid Crystal Lubricants Reduce Friction, Save Lots Of Electricity

crystals have a certain orientation – you might compare them to matches with their heads all pointing in ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2008 - 11:27am

National Lampoon's Vacation: Jupiter edition

going to consider all harebrained ideas, hold on to your tool bags, astronauts: the proposals must ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 20 2008 - 11:04am

'Battered' Polymers Could Mean Self-Healing Paint

protection but they all required a number of steps to produce the end result. This new process cuts ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2008 - 12:52am

Tiny Firefly Satellite Takes On Nature's Own Particle Accelerator

a gamma-ray detector along with a suite of instruments to detect lightning. Students will be involved in all ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2008 - 12:22pm

KPD 0005+5106- That's One Hot Dwarf

performance. The team of astronomers, including K. Werner, T. Rauch, and J.W. Kruk, made use of all accumulated ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2008 - 10:22am

Galileo's Telescope Recreated

apparatus to catalogue all the objects recorded in Galileo's 'Sidereus Nuncius' (or, in ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2009 - 1:13am

Supermassive Black Holes To Stars- It Wasn't Us!

the team discovered that all of the galaxies with bright AGN had stopped forming stars several hundred ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2009 - 5:04pm

Slicing Light For Datastreams Of 640 Gbits/second

"Breakthrough switching speed with an all-optical chalcogenide glass chip: 640 Gbit/s Demultiplexing," Leif ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2009 - 11:59am

On "Barriers to Innovation": NASA isn't allowed 'hail marys'

evil". Congress gave NASA "don't screw up". NASA takes innovation risks all the time-- but ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Feb 9 2009 - 10:07am

Poor OCO, and Launching Flight Spares

amplifier. Then you'll test them all, and put the highest performing one onto the final payload. So the ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Feb 24 2009 - 2:57pm