Physical Sciences

My Take On The Would-Be Particle At 38 MeV

difficulty in the investigation of the subnuclear world. Care is required first of all in how the analyses ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 22 2012 - 4:49pm

Wheeler’s Utterly Simple Idea That Demands The Quantum

the Quantum Randi Challenge, the EPR resolution, all can and should be, and with your help may be ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 4 2012 - 9:34am

Plastic Power: Jeremy Rowsell Flying From Sydney To London Using Household Trash As Fuel

“If the engine stops, you know it’s all over,” he matter-of-factly points out. He’s not taking the ...

Article - Mark Halper - Oct 24 2012 - 11:51am

9 Gigapixel Image Shows 84 Million Stars In The Center Of The Milky Way

stars in one go, we can now make a census of all the stars in this part of the Milky Way,” explains ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2012 - 9:52am

Convicting Scientists For Miscommunicating Risk: What We Should Focus On

mean, and how to take decisions based on a logical assessment of all the variables in the system. Alas, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 29 2012 - 1:28pm

What Makes Particles Unstable?

all the particles to which the muon "couples": the carrier of all the interactions to which ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 9 2012 - 3:59pm

NGC 6872 Declared The Largest-known Spiral Galaxy

direction it rotates. The current study is consistent with this picture. As in all barred spirals, NGC 6872 ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2013 - 9:16pm

Weighted Averages "A' La PDG"

evidently too large for a weighted average to have any meaning! Okay, diatriba mode off- after all I did not ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 18 2013 - 5:37pm

Journey To The Limits Of Spacetime. Hypothetically. With A Computer

are only as good as their assumptions. "All tests of general relativity in the weak gravity field ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2013 - 4:29pm

A Third Van Allen Radiation Belt Discovered Circling Earth

change? All of this information teaches us more about space." Scientists already have theories about ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2013 - 3:20pm