Physical Sciences

Mild-Mannered MC2 1635+119 Turns Out To Be Super Quasar

all roughly 2 billion light-years away, that are known to harbor quasars. According to Canalizo, the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2007 - 6:41pm

Cold Spot Equals Big Bang Relic

all to lie down. People would tend to lie in the same direction as their neighbours, but over large ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2007 - 5:12pm

PG 1700+518 Study Confirms Supermassive Black Holes Produce Galaxy-Shaping Winds

the most massive black holes, or by all active galactic nuclei. “The polarization process makes this ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2007 - 5:49pm

Who’s Smarter: Chimps, Baboons Or Bacteria? The Power Of Group IQ (Part I)

populated by more citizens than all the human beings who have ever lived. The number of bacteria in that ...

Article - Howard Bloom - Dec 30 2007 - 12:05pm

Next-Gen Electric Cars Will Use Heat-Resistant Magnets

all form 2-14-1 crystal structures,” said Anderson. “Together they have much less degradation of their ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2008 - 5:42pm

Stochastic Cooling And Racing Ahead Of The Speed Of Light

like all charged particle beams, RHIC's ions tend to spread out (heat up) as they circulate. As ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2008 - 10:38am

Omega Centauri's Status Revisited- Because Of A 'Baby' Black Hole

astronomers to suggest that Omega Centauri may not be a globular cluster at all, but a dwarf galaxy stripped ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2008 - 6:01pm

CP29- The 'Dimmer' Switch Of Photosynthesis

findings showed that energy-quenching occurs within all three minor complexes, which is consistent with the ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2008 - 8:55am

Is The Third Law Of Thermodynamics More Of A Guideline?

reach an ordered state—or if it does at all. Experiments have shown that if potassium hydroxide is added ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2008 - 1:10pm

Our Solar System Is Actually Quite Special

frequently lock into dynamical resonances that drive the orbits of all participants to be increasingly ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2008 - 3:59pm