Physical Sciences

Jansky Very Large Array Gets First Light

capability, by summer 2013 all 27 of the 25-meter telescopes of the JVLA will be outfitted with the new ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2012 - 10:42am

Detractors Not Grasping The Memristor

charges to Goliath so he can point to them laughing: “Look, all that criticism is mere envious ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 8 2017 - 7:27pm

The X-Ray laser: Once a weapon, now a tool

powered by one nuclear device. Each emitter would target a missile, and they would all simultaneously fire ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 17 2012 - 11:39am

Sharpless 2-292: Seagull Nebula Gets Its Wide Field Imager Close-Up

curious names. Thus the Seagull Nebula moniker. It has also been called  Sh 2-292, RCW 2 and Gum 1, all ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2012 - 6:00am

Naturalness Explained With The Roulette

determined at random, but all are smaller of a pre-determined maximum number M; Bob does not tell you what ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 9 2012 - 10:50am

Fomalhaut B Status As Planet Both Challenged And Reaffirmed

distance from the disk has hardly changed at all in two years, which is a good sign that it's in ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2012 - 7:45pm

Higgs: New ATLAS And CMS Results

prediction over all the spectrum, with a bumpy departure at the mass of the new particle. The significance of ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 14 2012 - 3:53am

No Atmosphere On Makemake

developed an atmosphere-- that it has no sign of one at all shows just how much we have yet to learn about ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2012 - 7:59pm

Shape-Shifting Self-Assembly Using Janus Spheres

field, each sphere spins in a gyroscopic motion. They spin at the same frequency but all face a different ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2012 - 12:00pm

Abell 520 Relook Helps Dark Matter Dodge A Bullet

in dark matter after all.  These composite images taken by two different teams using the Hubble Space ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2012 - 2:30pm