Physical Sciences

Kink Instability, Magnetic Reconnection And The Origin Of Solar Flares?

although kink and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities may not drive magnetic reconnection in all cases, this ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2012 - 12:31pm

Cycling Around Z2

all the variation in space is constrained to one degree of space and one degree of time. There is ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Apr 9 2012 - 11:38pm

Astronomers: Paparazzi With Brains

Neugent, P. Massey, and B. Skiff, all from Lowell Observatory. A second paper on M33, by M. Drout and P. ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2012 - 10:17am

It's A Higgs (We're Pretty Sure)

from these collisions is like trying to understand what all the inhabitants of the world are saying, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2012 - 2:35am

13 Billion Year Old Ghost Galaxies Are Fossils Of The Early Universe

smallest of these dwarfs suggests that there may be still thousands more with essentially no stars at all ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2012 - 4:04pm

Photosynthesis and organic food

path of carbon in photosynthesis. Not all those working in his team got the Nobel, hence some people ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 6 2012 - 4:25pm

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