Physical Sciences

The San José Mine In Chile- And Space

planets dryest desert, the Atacama desert in Chile. The lanscape looks not all that different than that on ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Oct 15 2010 - 5:45am

How Might Astronomers Weigh Stars?

and massive all three bodies are. This is an artist's concept of an exoplanet and its moon ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2010 - 3:52pm

DIY NASA Crafts For $$$

submissions already, with all entries due by November 2, 2010. You don't have to have an Etsy shop ...

Article - Project Calliope - Oct 19 2010 - 11:21am

Foucault For The 21st Century

jiggering of the pendulums was able to tune out all but one percent of the elliptical "noise," at ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2010 - 1:05pm

10 Inverse Femtobarns: Celebration Time At Fermilab!

(five events in total, if I remember correctly, were all it took him to claim the discovery of that new ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 21 2010 - 4:14pm

New Higgs Cross Sections For The LHC

on Higgs Physics at the LHC integrating all new results that have appeared in the last few years. The ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 4 2011 - 6:07pm

What Does ET Look Like?

life would be metabolically slow compared to aerobic animals but... well, its still life, after all ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Feb 25 2011 - 10:42am

Air Surfing And The Magic Of Science

that's all you need.  Then, when you are experienced, you can reuse the cardboard for something else and ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 15 2011 - 6:12pm

Testing QCD With Heavy Flavour- Part 1

existence of quarks and granting five Nobel prizes all at once) was understood to be the combination of two ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 18 2011 - 5:26am

Carbon For Archimedes (2)

sheet.   With a cylinder, we can roll up a sheet consisting of all hexagons – chemical “chicken wire” ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Mar 5 2011 - 1:07am