Physical Sciences

NGC 1132- A Cosmic Fossil In A Halo Of Dark Matter

a cosmic feeding frenzy in which a large cannibal galaxy devours all of its neighbours. A less likely ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2008 - 12:28pm

Listening For Black Holes

a special sound-- that matches our model from all of the noise in the LIGO data." It takes massive ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2008 - 10:21pm

New Greenland Ice Sheet Data Could Impact Climate Change Models

(IPCC). “Ice sheet models usually don’t include all the complexity of ice dynamics that can happen in ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2008 - 11:31am

The Persistent Mystery Of Language Evolution

language. Both bird songs and all human languages seem to share some underlying characteristics related to ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2008 - 4:26am

Hubble Finds 67 New Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies

a massive, foreground galaxy, and the Hubble Space Telescope are all aligned perfectly. Hubble astronomers ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2008 - 6:31am

Electron Caught On Film For The First Time

effects in the experiment. All the substructures are well reproduced except for the highly saturated ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2008 - 4:59pm

The Top 5 Ways Physics Has Improved Health Care

MATTER/ANTIMATTER COLLISION IMAGING Another rapidly growing technique used to detect diseases in people of all ages ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2008 - 5:49pm

Technology: Magnetic Levitation 'most Realistic Sense Of Touch Of Any Haptic Interface In The World Today'

the universities of Utah and British Columbia. All are members of the Magnetic Levitation Haptic ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2008 - 10:53am

EPIC: Ending Integrated Circuit Piracy With Switches That Act Like Locks

owner over an ordinary phone line or Internet connection. "All chips are produced from the same ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2008 - 7:32pm

Hyperbranched Aluminosilica Absorbs CO2 From Coal Plant Smokestacks

the combination of high capacity, easy synthesis, low cost and a robust ability to be recycled – all ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2008 - 11:01am