Physical Sciences

Soup From A Can Does Not Create Risk From BPA

levels of the active form of BPA in blood. As in all human studies to date, the body inactivated 998 out ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2015 - 4:24pm

Optically Getting To The Same Side: How To Generating Möbius Strips Of Light

electric field in all three dimensions. Moreover, different parts of the beam will have different electric ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2015 - 5:51pm

Graph Of The Week: The Flavor Of Astrophysical Neutrinos In IceCUBE

neutrinos of astrophysical origin, excluding all interactions likely due from atmospheric showers from ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 12 2015 - 11:31am

The Tyndall Effect

(NaCl) into a beaker with 250 ml (about 8 ounces) of water. Stir until all the salt (solute) dissolves in ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Feb 23 2015 - 7:19am

IXV Spaceplane's Successful Test Makes European Aerospace Company Proud

delivered to ESA in September 2014. Several hundreds of engineers and technicians spread all across Europe ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Feb 22 2015 - 7:43pm

Recent Results From Super-Kamiokande

The observed 8B flux is 2.343+-0.044 x10^6 /cm^2/s. The observed flux has remained stable in all four ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 3 2015 - 5:20am

Amazing Metamaterials Mechanical Properties

expect to see products that have previously unseen mechanical properties, all because science and ...

Article - Inside Science - Mar 4 2015 - 9:00am

The Borexino Detector And Its Physics Results

an extreme purity from all radioactive contaminants, which was a titanic effort in the construction. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 4 2015 - 10:55am

Planck Mission Challenges Einstein Again

far, it had been assumed that dark energy comprised a maximum of one per cent of all energy at the time ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2015 - 9:30am

Uranium And The Natural Nuclear Reactor

element but different amounts of neutrons.  So although all uranium atoms have 92 protons, some have only ...

Article - Robert Hayes - Mar 18 2015 - 9:12pm