Physical Sciences

Is Baseball Biased Toward Lefties?

"It wasn't all that long ago when first basemen were predominantly left-handed and most right ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2010 - 8:49pm

Mystery Star Cluster NGC 6791 Has Three Different Ages

dwarfs. All that is needed is a process that slows down white-dwarf evolution, the researchers said. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2008 - 8:15pm

Peeking Into The Mysteries Of Superconductivity

experiments were performed; Ruixing Liang, Doug Bonn, and Walter Hardy, all of the University of British ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2008 - 10:23am

Can Microbial Ecology Solve The Energy Crisis?

genome reveals all the possible biological reactions that a microorganism can carry out. In the past, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2008 - 10:39am

Hydrogen- Without The Nasty Carbon Footprint

associates; Rudeger H. T. Wilke and Sanjeev Sharma, Ph.D. candidates; Thomas J. Latempa, graduate student, all ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2008 - 8:45am

Quasar Accretion Disks 'Viewed' Using Polarizing Filter

black hole. In the process, friction causes the matter to heat up such that it produces light in all ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2008 - 3:51pm

Northern Lights Mystery Gets Solved

around the Earth and an array of 20 ground observatories with automated, all-sky cameras located in the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2008 - 5:58pm

Fine-Tuning Flavors May Also Lead To Environmentally Terrific Pesticides

most bacteria and all known plants and animals. Although AOS or HPL are not found in humans, there are ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2008 - 5:57pm

Not Stars, Not Planets: Brown Dwarfs Need To Be Their Own Class, Say Researchers

can, for example, occur as the result of a close encounter with a third star. Since almost all stars ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2009 - 11:33pm

MACSJ0025.4-1222 Cluster Shows Clear Separation Between Dark Matter, Ordinary Matter

matter particles interact with each other only very weakly or not at all, apart from the pull of gravity. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 27 2008 - 11:50am