Physical Sciences

Markarian 335: Rare Blurring Of Black Hole Light 324 Million Light Years Away

gravity pulled all the light down onto its surrounding disk, where material is spiraling inward," ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 1:38am

Window Into A Working Lithium-Ion Battery

lithium-ion battery, containing electrolyte and all. Coauthors on the paper include Jinghui Wang and Ke Pan, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2014 - 10:29am

Curious Space Particles May Kick-Start Formation Of Planets And Stars

ones found in Orion. Whether they all are the same remains to be seen. For now, Draine said the big ...

Article - Inside Science - Sep 9 2014 - 7:30am

Human Moon Colony: Boldly Grow Where No Man Has Grown Before

moon soil does not bode well for future lunar colonies, however. All of the species grew poorly and ...

Article - Inside Science - Sep 15 2014 - 11:31am

The Energy Of 10 Million Suns: An Impossibly Bright Dead Star

ULXs may in fact be pulsars as well. "Everybody had assumed all of these sources were black ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2014 - 3:13pm

Hidden Star Formation Found In A Protocluster

advantage that it has a 11 arcminute field of view, so we can see all companion galaxies in this wide area ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Oct 16 2014 - 5:43pm

QACs In Household Disinfectants Impair Mouse Fertility

tested – all substances already in use when the act was passed in 1976 were grandfathered in to automatic ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 11 2014 - 8:00am

Extreme Storms Of Uranus

caused all the excitement. De Pater's colleague Larry Sromovsky, a planetary scientist at the ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2014 - 8:00am

A New Search For The A Boson With CMS

One of the nice things about the analysis is that in the final data sample all contributing ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 16 2014 - 4:54am

How Do Massive Stars Form? Almost The Same Way as Other Stars.

masers are excited by molecular collisions.  All of these details taken together lead to the conclusion ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 18 2014 - 6:22am