Physical Sciences

HR 7162- Astrometry Win Could Force A Rethink Of Gas Giant Planet Formation

make a planet just gets lost in space and if too close gas giants wouldn't be formed at all due to ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 23 2010 - 12:26pm

Watch The Live Dissertation Defense About Citizen Sky

collect as much data as possible over the next year. With all of the participants in this science program, ...

Article - Matthew T. Dearing - Oct 26 2010 - 9:38pm

Was There Cosmic Climate Change Too?

stars or galaxies. Instead, it was spread out in a very thin gas that filled up all of space.   The gas ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 2 2010 - 2:04pm

Analogy Watch: Muon Collisions And The Machine That Will See Them

annihilate, and all their energy goes into making new matter. In contrast, when the LHC accelerates protons, ...

Article - Lauren Rugani - Nov 8 2010 - 4:47pm

Massive Galaxies May Have Formed Much Earlier Than Predictions

universe are instead quiescent and do not form stars at all. The researchers note that there are two likely ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2010 - 4:00am

Zoom In Atom Or Unknown Physics Of Short Distances

(excited or not). So experimentally, when all scattered projectiles are only counted, one observes an ...

Article - Vladimir Kalitvia... - Dec 9 2010 - 5:39pm

DIY Satellite Builder's Guide, V0.5

Consider it the first half of a DIY satellite builder's guide, plus all the framing material you need ...

Article - Project Calliope - Dec 7 2010 - 2:20pm

Smolin Vs Susskind: Part 3 Ripping On Lenny

would have likely argued similarly about not being able to see the stars. All his analogies, for ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Dec 8 2010 - 2:59pm

Fahrenheit-459 And The Sixth State Of Matter

quantum physics, this spacing determines all other natural scales, such as the scale for energy, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2010 - 4:28pm

Cramming For HAM

1304. In a similar fashion, all the electronics ones work out as Ohm's law-- either V=IR or P=IV. ...

Article - Project Calliope - Jan 4 2011 - 5:52pm