Physical Sciences

The Most Precise Mass Measurement: CMS On Top

Of course, all good things come to an end- with the advent of the Large Hadron Collider and the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 4 2014 - 7:11am

Where The Milky Way Stands In The 'Council Of Giants'

immediate neighborhood- bright galaxies within 35-million light years of the Earth.  "All bright ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2014 - 5:00am

Underwater Acoustics- Searching For The MH370 Flight Recorder

a black box in water is a very complex problem.  It is not at all like searching for a flashing distress ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 6 2014 - 2:25pm

The Mystery Of The Hexagon On Saturn's North Pole

illumination. However, the seasonal variations do not affect the hexagon and its jet stream at all, so both are ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2014 - 11:52am

Dark Matter Has Conferences, Now It Needs Evidence

the galaxy outward. "Supersymmetry proposes there are mirror particles that shadow all the known ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2014 - 4:09pm

Antifungal Drug Amphotericin: Potent, Puzzling And Now Less Toxic To Humans

a standard technique. So far, all attempts have failed. The researchers turned to one of the most powerful ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 6:30pm

Kepler-186f: An Earth-Sized Planet In A Habitable Zone

previously been found in the habitable zone, they are all at least 40 percent larger in size than Earth and ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2014 - 2:58pm

Mantis Shrimp: Cool Eyes, And Stronger Than Airplanes

dent depth damage to all of the helicoidal samples was 20 percent to 50 percent less than the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2014 - 6:58pm

A Crack In The Cosmic Egg- What Does The Cosmic Inflation Discovery Really Mean?

Theorist physicists can come up with suitably cosmic scenarios all they want but the signal still needs to ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2014 - 5:34pm

Liquid Spacetime- The Fluid Flow Of General Relativity?

perceive of the mass of H2O molecules that form it. What does it all mean? Well, not much. There are a lot ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2014 - 9:07am