Physical Sciences

Where Does Space Begin? The Answer Is...

made in this region, and the first time all the ingredients – such as the upper atmospheric winds ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2009 - 1:35pm

'Near-Field' Radiation Therapy For Overheating Laptops

"We achieve all of our coupling through surface polariton scattering because of a large enhancement of ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2009 - 1:31pm

Spectacular Saturn Views- Waves From Daphnis And Spokes At Sunrise (And More)

Titan's thick atmosphere scatters light around all edges of the planet to create a ring of light.  Images ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2009 - 11:44pm

Fermi Active Galaxies, It's Time For Your Close Up

million light-years away. Credit: NRAO/AUI/MOJAVE Team/Y. Kovalev All this points to the team's ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2009 - 5:06pm

Photoelectric Effect- At Short Wavelengths And Very High Intensities, Things Get Even Weirder

light are decisively determined by the structure of the atom and correlations in, above all, inner ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2009 - 11:06am

Somali Pirates? They're Nothing Compared To Rogue Black Holes Roaming The Milky Way

explained O'Leary. "Without the shining stars to guide our way, the black holes would be all but ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2009 - 2:54pm

Magnetic Blast Waves And The Impact Epicenter Of Earthbound Space Storms

All night long, every night, the observatories take 3-second time resolution snapshots of the aurora ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2009 - 11:40pm

True Muonium- A 'What If...?' Conversation In Physics

during his conversation with Lebed. "Once you pull all of the ideas together, you say 'Of ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2009 - 1:52pm

Is The Standard Model Failing Us In The Bs Sector? Not Really, Say New Tevatron Results

you can see the "trust all" result of DZERO, which includes all known constraints. The ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 5 2009 - 1:15pm

Discovery: New Black Hole HLX-1 Has 500 Solar Masses And 260 Million Times Our Sun's Brightness

other theories, but this one stood out as it was brighter than all the previous candidates by a factor ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2009 - 5:19pm