Physical Sciences

Giant Halo Around The Andromeda Galaxy Found

nearly half of all the heavy elements made by its stars have been expelled far beyond the galaxy's ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2015 - 1:02pm

Rydberg Atoms, Qubits And Magic Wavelengths In Quantum Computing

hydrogen-like. That is, all the inner electrons can lumped together and regarded, along with the atom's ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2015 - 8:38am

Highlights Of The INFN School Of Statistics For Physicists

used for limit-setting and measurements at the LHC. All lecturers also participated in interactive ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 29 2015 - 10:30am

At home physics demonstrates the Coriolis effect on both sides of the globe

the draining water with a counter-clockwise rotation, while in the Southern Hemisphere it all spins ...

Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Jun 10 2015 - 5:03pm

Gas rules

all the electrons on average are closer to the nucleus of the atoms to which they were bound than they ...

Blog Post - Robert Hayes - Jun 21 2015 - 6:15am

Giant Galaxy Messier 87 Is Still Growing

Western Reserve University)/ESO Rather than try to look at all the stars in Messier 87-- there are ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2015 - 8:30am

Radiation Detectors Click By Design

a small electrical push is all that is needed in a GM detector to actually cause it to spark and equalize ...

Article - Robert Hayes - Jul 5 2015 - 4:57am

It's Misleading To Compare Exoplanet Kepler-452b To Earth

and therefore, no recognizable life. All these possibilities mean that even a planet exactly the same ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 24 2015 - 9:21pm

1859 Balloon Voyage

filled with ordinary air, the balloon wouldn’t rise at all since the air inside the balloon would weigh ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Aug 30 2016 - 9:28am

Thou Shalt Have One Higgs- $100 Bet Won!

too well all observations at particle colliders, I put forth the bet that the LHC experiments would ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 27 2015 - 9:11am