Physical Sciences

Meteoroid Caught Free-Falling On Video? No, A Stone In The Parachute Pack

A probability of the observation, given the hypothesis that the stone is indeed a meteoroid, needs first of all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 24 2014 - 1:01am

Arsia Mons: Is There A Habitable Environment On This Martian Volcano?

than the habitable environments turned up by Curiosity and other Mars rovers. Those sites are all ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2014 - 4:30pm

GRB 140419A: A Huge Explosion From 12.1 Billion Years Ago Reaches Earth

Among all lights in the electromagnetic spectrum, gamma rays have the shortest wavelengths and are ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2014 - 11:06am

The Smallest Force Ever Measured

Nathan Brahms, Thierry Botter and Maryrose Barrios. At the heart of all ultrasensitive detectors of force ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 6:38pm

Not Only Top: Bottom Asymmetry Measured By CDF!

obtains some discrimination between b- and anti-b-originated jets. The analysis is actually not at all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 28 2014 - 10:17am

An Easier Way To Create Photonic Crystals

the suspension; models often assume colloids are all the same shape and size but this rarely occurs in ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2014 - 11:00am

Constructal Law: Evolution Governed Science Of Airplanes

all sizes but the biggest are joined by even bigger models. In another chart, the line that best ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2014 - 2:30am

J1023 And A 'Transformer' Pulsar

high-energy particles moving near the speed of light. The power for all this comes from the pulsar's ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2014 - 4:20pm

Meet BPA-Free, The New BPA

proposed to ban products containing BPA.   On all fronts, media coverage has both reported on and promoted ...

Article - Steve Hentges - Aug 18 2014 - 9:12am

Hormone Mimics: A New Way To Capture Them

a long time. "We can do all of this in a test tube, although if we want large quantities of the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2014 - 3:45pm