Physical Sciences

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

Slicing The Universe With HARP/ACSIS- A New Look At Orion

measure the speed of the gas that's forming all these new stars and, furthermore, do a chemical ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2007 - 12:17am

Using Greek Geometry To Study Dark Matter

roughly the same as that between Jupiter and the sun. All this calculation adds up to one tantalizing ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2007 - 10:46pm