Physical Sciences

Dust Ring Simulations May Point To Habitable Exo-Planets

forms inward of Jupiter's orbit, as comets crumble near the sun and asteroids of all sizes collide. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2008 - 1:22pm

Take That LHC: Fermi Scores Again In Discovering Rare Single Top Quark

some concern as the LHC got all the press about being the future of physics despite the fact it ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2009 - 3:47pm

Super Hydrophobic Micro Robots Go!

Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water-- all those ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2009 - 9:04pm

Molecules With Five-Fold Symmetry As A Two-Dimensional Crystal? Not So Impossible Any More

of all the same length. The only way around the problem is to use other geometrical shapes to fill in ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2009 - 9:49am

How Did The Milky Way Survive? Dark Matter Did It, Says Hypothesis

Why did our Milky Way galaxy survive while others failed?    Ill-defined, convenient catch-all dark ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2009 - 8:42pm

Getting Electrons To "jump" Forces Them To Split Apart

Previously thought to be indivisible, with negative charge for all, the electron is one of the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2009 - 4:23pm

The 'Superest' Microscope- US Neutron Facility Achieves Record Megawatt Power

all since August 2007. Some say it is more like a laser light than a flashllight in comparison with ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Oct 11 2009 - 12:42pm

Anatomy Of A Satellite

life into panic and confusion. For the mighty packing slip says it all. "Parts&Packing ...

Article - Project Calliope - Mar 2 2010 - 2:17pm

Why The Sky Is Falling: Space Weather Communications

travelers and resulting in people in remote areas dying due to exposure.  Worse of all, our TV may go out ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jun 11 2010 - 7:36pm

Roma Versus Delta Ophiuchi- Watch While An Asteroid Eats A Star

You are all familiar with a solar eclipse, when our Moon passes in front of the Sun and blocks its ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2010 - 11:30am