Physical Sciences

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

The Mind-Bending Mathematics Needed To Figure Out The Universe

(MWA) in western Australia, and the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile. These are all just ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 2 2014 - 10:36am

The Guard Dog. Who Keeps Watch for Fraudulent and Predatory Open Access Journals?

journal will be scrubbed of all identifying information.   Only text should be used.   Figures are too ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 23 2014 - 2:16pm

Is Honey More Toxic Than Table Sugar?

the mouse barns, they might be obscured if all the mice ate the sucrose diet once in the barns. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2015 - 9:30am

Ignore Phony Controversies, Failure In Real Science Is Good

BICEP2 saga should serve to enhance it. While few of us can follow all the technical details on which the ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 11 2015 - 8:30am