Physical Sciences

Cenocell Will Turn Coal Ash Into Cement Without Concrete

transportation and even aerospace. “Dealing with the ash left over from burning coal is a problem all over the ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2008 - 1:30am

Brown Dwarfs Form Like Stars, Says Research

in fact. The outflow rate is also smaller by a factor of 100. In all respects, the molecular outflow ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:49pm

Predicted Planet Gets Imaged- For Only The Second Time Ever (The First Was Neptune)

a giant cloud of gas and dust, the angular momentum of the cloud carries over to all the objects that form ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2008 - 3:17pm

Einstein Cross- Microlensing Gets Us A Better Look At The Cosmic Mirage

monitoring all the brightness and colour changes of the four images. "Thanks to this unique dataset, we ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2008 - 9:55am

Largest Solar Flare In 30 Years Fails To Break Apart Hydrogen? A Possible Explanation...

would validate Mewalt's current theory. "All we need now," says Mewalt, "is some ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Dec 15 2008 - 5:24pm

If Silk Hadn't Been Invented, People Might Say 'Smooth As SPADD Damping'

velocity jumps from subsonic to supersonic.   That's not all. When the burned out rocket stages are ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2008 - 12:53pm

LCROSS Uses Spent Rocket Booster To Detect Water On The Moon

water ice. This could be because there is none there at all, or because the regolith is very ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Dec 18 2008 - 5:29pm

Feynman Meets YouTube

lecturer. Essentially all of his books are transcripts of lectures. Thanks to YouTube, you can now watch ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Dec 22 2008 - 4:39pm

Nano Tractor Beam Of Light Traps DNA

Erickson. "Ultimately we imagine being able to take all the ultrafast and highly efficient optical ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 1 2009 - 7:24pm

Dead Stars And A Story Of A Planet's Birth

said Jura.  In all eight systems observed, Spitzer found that the dust contains a glassy silicate ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2009 - 6:04pm