Physical Sciences

Your GPS System Can Be Hacked Too

could spoof all of these, and that's the value of our work," Humphreys said. So use some ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2008 - 6:03pm

Kinematic SZ Effect Shows 'Dark Flow' In The Veins Of The Universe

frame. Relative to it, all large-scale motion should show no preferred direction. Big-bang models that ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2008 - 1:41am

Odyssey IV- Swims Like A Fish, Hovers Like A Helicopter

its home base, without any need to surface at all. “Once we prove the hovering capability foolproof, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2008 - 4:48pm

9 Billion Years After The Big Bang, A 'Little Bang' Formed Our Solar System- Theory

researchers considered several different situations. In all of the models, the shock front struck a pre-solar ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2008 - 3:21pm

CTA 1- 10,000 Year-Old Stellar Corpse Points To Evolution Of Pulsars

have determined that the pulsar is actually powering all the activity in the nebula where it resides. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2008 - 12:43am

NGC 404- 'Ghost Of Mirach' Materializes

Ghost of Mirach in images taken during the space telescope's all-sky survey. The Galaxy Evolution ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2008 - 10:55pm

What Is BlackMax?

atmosphere (not to mention all the myriad stars) with cosmic rays. So we know if black holes are made at the ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2008 - 7:56pm

Photonics Emerges From The Shadows

research institutes are present in Europe, and what they are doing? All this wasn’t known before.” The ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2008 - 2:06pm

May The Photon Force Be With You: Harnessing Light To Drive Nanomachines

postdoctoral fellow with Tang.   “We create hundreds of devices on a single chip, and all of them work,” says ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2008 - 10:30am

Milagro Collaboration Finds Cosmic Ray Hot Spots And It Says High Energy Particle Acceleration Is Happening Close To Earth

cosmic-ray particles came toward Earth uniformly from all directions. These new findings are the strongest ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2008 - 10:42pm