Physical Sciences

Cosmic Bubble Theory Of Universe Expansion Ruled Out

class of exploding stars called Type Ia supernovae. These stellar explosions all flare with similar ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2011 - 4:00am

To Be Is To Be Measured (Part 1)

all players are asked for the value of X, they win if (and only if) the product of their answers ...

Article - Ulrich Mohrhoff - May 22 2011 - 8:29pm

DZERO Charge Asymmetry Grows To 3.9 Standard Deviations

but its real meaning is much harder to clarify. Let me try to do a little of both here. First of all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 4 2011 - 12:02pm

Gus Grissom And Liberty Bell 7- 50 Years Ago Today

Mercury flight after all this time?   In the modern age, movies become our history and "The Right ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 29 2012 - 8:00pm

Top Quark Asymmetry? No Thanks, Says CMS

combination which corresponds to the quarks from top-antitop decay 29% of the time; in events where all final ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 21 2011 - 9:07pm

Lucky #7 Snarky Puzzle Answers

not Right Law (GR) to Useful Limiting Case (Newton), it is this all-star team of physicists appears to ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Nov 30 2011 - 12:04am

Do Trapped Surfaces of Penrose & Hawking Ever Form?

unaware of such development and believed in the inevitability of singularities and black holes like all ...

Blog Post - Abhas Mitra - Dec 23 2011 - 11:11pm

People Who Believe In Upper Limits...

of the confidence interval. You will find that your limit is μ<3.64, as the union of all regions ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 16 2012 - 1:15pm

Diving into Euler-Lagrange: 1D (1 of 2)

a maximum, a minimum, or an inflection point? That all depends on exactly what the Lagrangian happens to be. ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Feb 23 2012 - 5:31pm

KELT North- The Little Telescope That Could

space, but also on the ground. "Normally, we would need a space telescope to do all that, but in ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2012 - 5:31pm