Physical Sciences

Space Weather Can Kill Astronauts?

screw up radio and radar, and endanger airline pilots flying the polar routes. All of these damaging ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jun 8 2009 - 2:56pm

Dim Supernova SN 2008ha Mystery- No Hydrogen

Telescope (NOT) and Liverpool Telescope (all in Canary Islands, Spain), the Copernico Telescope (Asiago ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 6 2009 - 2:18pm

INFN Exam Does Not Go Deserted

schools. All for the sake of creating a classist society, where the rich have more privileges. No, I do not ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 7 2009 - 12:40am

Copernicium- Heaviest Element 112 Gets A Name

"After IUPAC officially recognized our discovery, we – that is all scientists involved in the discovery ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2009 - 12:43am

Nanoscopic Discovery- Salt Stretches!

 After all, this isn't a wagon train in 1840 where 'stretching' the salt supply was ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2009 - 12:27pm

Detailed Balance Explained To My Son

two states, detailed balance is quite useful, and the dynamics of these systems end up being all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 2 2009 - 10:47am

BigBOSS Joins The Hunt For Elusive Dark Energy

all right, a 2.94-degree) spectrograph was common to only three of the world's 4-meter ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2009 - 11:04am

Quenching The Sun, For Fun

cancel my latest mad scientist plan.  Our Sun is safe after all. That's our lesson for today: ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 22 2009 - 2:28am

Finding The Next Earth

planets. A catalog of all discovered exoplanets can be found at http://exoplanet.eu/catalog.php, or look at ...

Article - Kimberly Tyree - Aug 31 2009 - 4:13pm

Magnetic Fields Get Some Respect In Star Formation

fields channel flowing gas, making it hard to drawn the gas from all directions, while turbulence stirs ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2009 - 12:19pm