Physical Sciences

Why A Ball Thrown To Earth From Orbit "Boomerangs". Can Astronauts Hit Earth With A Ball, Arrow Or Bullet?

later. After all you threw it towards the Earth and half an orbit later it's returning from the ...

Article - Robert Walker - Feb 28 2020 - 12:36pm

Ultra-Sensitive Measurements Of Changes In Images Using Slow Light

the image while retaining all of its properties. The basic setup of the experiment is a single light ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2007 - 12:33pm

The Language Barrier

"0.0017", that is all. A truly astute reader instead will notice that scientists can really do without ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 29 2013 - 5:52pm

How To Use The Transit Of Venus To Determine The Astronomical Unit

most basic terms, a transit of Venus permits scientists on Earth to draw a big triangle in the sky: All ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2012 - 10:56am

Life as we don't know it on a planet like Alpha Centauri B's nearest?

a general idea of the climate on  an extrasolar planet).  That's all the information we have to work ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 17 2012 - 2:25pm

Dreaming Of Tau Lepton Decays

complicated to study is that its large mass allows all sorts of decays: not just ones to an electron and two ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 19 2014 - 10:08am

Comet Encke: A Solar Windsock

at something that's invisible--and that's where Comet Encke came in. All comets, if they ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2015 - 7:00am

Dr. Squatch: Soap For Dudes Who Grew Beards To Seem Manly While Agonizing Over Which Organic Hand Cream To Buy

a nocebo but people selling soap they claim has no chemicals at all, even though it can't be soap and ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 5 2019 - 1:04pm

Controversial Astrophysics- Scientists Compute Death Throes Of White Dwarf Star?

address how the Chicago simulation matches observations, will all be at the Paths to Exploding Stars ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2007 - 12:06pm

Pulsing Toward High-yield Fusion

current Z machine, all of which generate magnetic fields. In the new system, each brick has almost no ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2007 - 4:26pm