Physical Sciences

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

Gravity Makes A Comeback In Astrophysics- And A 3D 'Dendrogram' PDF Is Showing How

Halle. "You can take all the data, selectively filter it, and look at it in a different way." ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2009 - 3:29am

January 4th Marks 5-Year Anniversary Of Mars Rover "Spirit"

down, and the device can only be used to brush targets.  But all of the other science instruments and ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Jan 4 2009 - 9:41am

Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant Gets Dynamic Visualization

known about the plumes and jets before, but did not know that they all came out in a broad, disk-like ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2009 - 10:38am

The Strange Temperature Inversion Of Pluto

than the surface.  In contrast to the Earth's atmosphere [2], most, if not all, of Pluto's ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2009 - 5:28pm

Fermi Knocks Out A Big Chunk Of Higgs Hiding Places

possibilities. Combining all of them, we hope to see a first hint of the Higgs particle."  So far, CDF and ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2009 - 9:39am

Better Living For Microbial Communities Thanks To The Power Of Chemistry

Of all the world's unexplored marine environments, why did the Joye team choose to conduct their ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2009 - 11:37am