Physical Sciences

Scandal! Scientist Makes Honest Mistake, Humbly Retracts Supersolidity Result

alter oscillation frequency as temperature decreased.  So Chan eliminated all spaces for larger, elastic ...

Article - Robert Cooper - Oct 16 2012 - 1:32pm

CMS And ATLAS: Higgs To Tau Pairs!

reduced couplings to fermions, and could thus be a non-Standard Model particle after all. [Remember, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 15 2012 - 8:09pm

How To 'Weigh' An Infant Solar System

first to be able to measure the mass of the protostar itself. "This very young object has all the ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2012 - 6:00am

Humulones: Bitter Compounds In Beer Help Brew New Medicines

all or it could be like placing a right hand into a left-handed glove. That could produce disastrous ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2015 - 5:34pm

Simple Gravity Doesn't Explain Distribution Of Stars In Crowded Clusters

encounters with other stars much better, all throughout a cluster. This is why more binaries were seen ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2013 - 4:30am

Rare Bc Decay Observed by LHCb

is all we'll get this decade at the high-energy frontier, it is nice to turn to the beautiful ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 12 2013 - 3:18am

Planck Helps Scientists Read The Cosmic Writing On The Wall

"Encoded in its fluctuations are the parameters of all cosmology, numbers that describe the universe in its ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2013 - 12:56pm

Galaxy 4C+29.30- How A Supermassive Black Hole's Gravity Can Be Tapped To Generate Immense Power

probably in the shape of a giant doughnut around the black hole. This doughnut, or torus blocks all the ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2013 - 10:37pm

Hofstadter's Butterfly Effect Confirmed

electrons are in a material – energy density – determines all electrical properties. That's why copper ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2013 - 4:09pm

Magnetism Makes Archaeological Sourcing 'High Definition'

obsidian than all previously published studies combined," explained Frahm. "The resulting picture ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2013 - 9:19am