Physical Sciences

Synchrotron radiation

life, by which the light, heat, sound and many other electromagnetic waves transmitted to all directions ...

Blog Post - Mei Fang - Apr 15 2010 - 11:03am

SN 2005E: A New Class Of Supernovae?

own Milky Way, and the calcium present in all life on Earth. Interestingly, a team of researchers from ...

Article - News Staff - May 19 2010 - 1:42pm

Hollow Atoms: LCL Pulses Make Electrons Strip

molecule's outermost electrons to refill the innermost shells and get kicked out in turn. With all this ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2010 - 7:02am

Weekend Science: How To Cook For A Whole Army

recipes and the 40 lb.s of potatoes for Au Gratin recipes? My answer: It's the military.  All they ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 25 2010 - 2:33pm

Never Exercise Again- Optogenetics Is A Literal Light Workout For Muscles

deep into the nerve, ensuring that all of its constituent nerve fibers would receive adequate ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2010 - 2:12pm

SPT-CL J0546-5345 Is The Most Massive Galaxy Cluster Yet Discovered

the cosmic microwave background (a pervasive all-sky glow left over from the Big Bang). Such ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2010 - 1:56pm

A Bird, A Spider And A Human Walk Into A Bar...

Bonk! According to a 2004 story in Audubon Magazine and a few other sources who all seem to quote ...

Article - Jenny Morber - Oct 29 2010 - 10:40am

Levels of Organization

sense) for all intents and purposes.* Darwinian evolution is just one type of interaction that can occur ...

Blog Post - Rafe Furst - Dec 10 2010 - 5:49pm

Working In Science

live solar data from the SOHO mission.  There's hardware labs all around, weird hardware in some ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jan 20 2011 - 2:46pm

Strong Gravitational Lensing Gives Deep Galaxy Surveys A Boost

– which is a good thing – but you should be aware that all those details are not actually the sizes that ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2011 - 2:11pm