Physical Sciences

Sunspots Might Be Fooling Us Into Seeing Distant Earth-like Planets

explains, for the first time, all the previous and somewhat conflicting observations of the intriguing dwarf ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2014 - 10:02pm

Friction From Tides Could Help Distant Earths Thrive

planets could prevent all but the topmost layers from turning into liquid water.) The researchers found ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 5:30pm

What Is The Source Of A Mysterious Radio Burst?

event, and the inferred rate at which these bursts occur, are all consistent with the properties of the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2014 - 1:02pm

How To Accelerate Electrons The Van Allen Belt Way

movement of all the charged particles in the belts: The particles move along and gyrate around the lines as ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2014 - 12:30am

More On The Alleged WW Excess From The LHC

dataset. I should first of all explain that the WW final state arises by standard model processes that ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 29 2014 - 3:28am

Quantum Cheshire Cat: Scientists Separate A Particle From Its 'Grin'

are chosen, which have a spin parallel to their direction of motion. All the others are just ignored. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2014 - 1:04pm

Four Novae: Fermi Space Telescope Reveals New Source Of Gamma Rays

undetected, their visible light obscured by intervening dust and their gamma rays dimmed by distance. All of ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2014 - 12:14am

The New B...it Of The Summer: The Kardashian Index

science jargon, renowned for being renowned). We are all aware that certain people are seemingly invited ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 4 2014 - 5:01am

Summer Flukes Inspire Creative Theorists

photon by the MEG experiment (all the part of the plane above the almost-horizontal red line at the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 12 2014 - 12:48pm

The Periodic Diet

addiction. So it takes a strong will to control our body weight. Diets of all kinds exist, but in the end if ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 15 2014 - 6:44am