Physical Sciences

Ghosts Of Galaxies Point To Cold Dark Matter

clusters and dark matter, all of which has become strewn out along its orbit, giving rise to a complicated ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2008 - 9:37am

Tunable Metamaterials Open Terahertz Frequencies To Many Applications

of narrow band response typical of all metamaterial designs to date. Constructed on the micron-scale, ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2008 - 9:24pm

Paranal Shines In Both 'Gegenschein' And Zodiacal Light

the rest of the Sun with all its colours," says Guisard. His colleague Guillaume Blanchard was ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2008 - 1:22am

Do Abell 222 And Abell 223 Contain The Universe's 'Missing' Baryonic Matter?

constitutes stars and planets. It consists of protons and neutrons – called baryons – and of electrons, all ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2008 - 12:18am

Have The Antennae Galaxies Moved Or Were We Wrong By 20 Million Light Years?

a wealth of observational data to be compared to the predictions of theoretical models. Saviane says: “All ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2008 - 9:25am

New Bacteria-Resistant Films Are Only 50 Billionths Of A Meter Thick

“All other factors being equal, mechanical stiffness of material surfaces increases bacterial ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2008 - 10:41pm

Self-Healing Aircraft Technology Mimics Nature

self-repair system could therefore have an impact in all these fields. In aircraft, FRP composites can be used ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2008 - 10:43pm

Phoenix And Mars Are Alright Tonight (with Apologies To Paul McCartney)

Barry Goldstein, the Phoenix project manager. If all goes well, engineers will learn the status of the ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2008 - 10:24pm

The Mysterious Ring Of A Soft Gamma Repeater- Magnetar SGR 1900+14

magnetars. When Wachter's team began pondering the origin of the ring, "We thought initially of all ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2008 - 10:51pm

Doped Rare Earth Iron Oxyarsenides Properties May Mean An Entirely New Kind Of Superconductor

superconducting all the way up to 45 tesla, far past the point at which other superconductors become normal ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2008 - 11:05pm