Physical Sciences

Stiction Nanotubes Mimic Van Der Waals Adhesion In Geckos

coatings work best, but such knowledge is scarce for nanoscale fibers. It's all about how to make ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2008 - 6:28pm

Galactic Flambé- Big Black Holes Cook Up Stellar Pancakes

the shock front is only 0.05 sec. Conclusion The planned high-energy, all-sky surveys are the best ...

Article - News Staff - May 2 2008 - 11:34am

Expanding Supernova Marks Youngest Yet- And There May Be 10 Even Younger

brightly in radio waves and X-rays for thousands of years. X-ray and radio telescopes can see through all ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2008 - 3:14pm

Mystery Molecule Leads To Quantum Discovery

a sequential task. A quantum computer, however, could look at all of the names in the telephone book ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2008 - 4:30pm

Dutch Amateur Astronomer Finds Cosmic 'Ghost'

astronomers from all over the world volunteered their time and submitted over 50 million classifications for ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2008 - 8:59pm

Spectro-Astrometric Imaging Finds Young Planets In Gas Discs

these three young, Sun-like stars are all very different and will most likely result in very different ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2008 - 11:11am

Mysterious New Aurora Discovered On Saturn

sometimes fills the region from around 82 degrees north all the way over the pole. This new aurora is also ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2008 - 1:24pm

WR 25 And Tr16-244: Previously Unseen Mammoth Stars Get The Hubble Treatment

in Spain, Chile, and Argentina to build a comprehensive catalogue of observations of all the massive ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2011 - 2:08am

Holograms, And Lasers And Nanoassembly, O My!

pattern light, we can pattern particles, we can pattern the vortex. No other tool can do all of ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:54pm

Sagittarius A* Black Hole In Our Galaxy Gets Triangulated, Except Using 28 Stars

all other galactic nuclei, with a level of detail that will never be possible beyond our Galaxy," ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2008 - 7:00pm