Physical Sciences

Big Bang, Big Bewilderment

'bending up' of the line of galaxies. By plotting all galaxies at synchronized proper (cosmological) ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Feb 25 2010 - 9:50am

Entropic Gravity Getting Messy?

the holes themselves, one would need to 'average out' all coherence in the quantum ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Aug 31 2011 - 5:38pm

CDF Kisses Another New Physics Effect Bye-Bye

for new physics means that we do not have much to report: this was really an all-or-nothing endeavour, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 6 2009 - 11:49pm

The Science Of Grilling

side of the grill and cover it.   Using the handy times below it is easy to plan so that all of the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 7 2020 - 12:20pm

NGC 134: Island In The Universe

Boffin, with input from Yuri Beletsky (all ESO). Warps are actually not atypical. More than half of the ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2007 - 11:21am

Broad Absorption Line Quasar Puts Out More X-Rays Than Even Believed Possible

10-20 percent of all quasars are BAL quasars, which get their name from a thick cocoon of gas ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2011 - 10:05am

Metamaterials Boost Means Next Generation Cloaking Device

and improve our abilities to cloak different types of waves." It doesn't look all that ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2009 - 4:18pm

Big Dipper Secret Ingredient- Alcor's Red Dwarf Companion

1640 astronomers discovered the faint star by blocking out almost all of Alcor's light with ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:58pm

Missing Jupiters May Have Brought Massive Comet Belts

of the Herschel data. GJ 581's planets have masses between 2 and 15 Earth masses and are all ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2012 - 6:00pm

LRLL 54361: Binary Star Spied Gobbling Its First Meal

region) in (a), and about 50" (~15,000 AU) in (b). Most if not all of this light is likely the result ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2013 - 3:07pm