Physical Sciences

Have Strange Baryons Been Found?

N t = 6 and 8 data. arXiv:1404.6511 "Baryons, which are hadrons made of three quarks, make up almost all ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2014 - 11:54am

Quantum Mechanics: Why We Respirate Rather Than Asphyxiate

particles. But in recent years theorists have increasingly shown how it applies to all facets of life, large ...

Article - Peter Gwynne - Jun 7 2015 - 2:13am

Let's play Impact Crater or not Impact Crater.

all of their leaves.   The same goes for excavations with an earth mover.  Generally people excavate ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 12 2014 - 1:20pm

Launching America to Space: Enthusiastic Reception for NASA's Commercial Crew Decision

societies. "This is a good day for our nation's space program and for all Americans,” said House ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Sep 19 2014 - 5:30pm

Nobel Prize In Chemistry: Beating Nature’s Limits To Build Super-microscopes

improved things all that much. There happens to be a fundamental limit on the magnification that can be ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 8 2014 - 7:00pm

Magic Magnetic Mirrors Reflect Light In Uncanny Ways

critical," explained Sinclair "as are their magnetic and electrical properties, all of which allow them ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2014 - 8:00am

Could Life Have Existed Just 15 Million Years After The Big Bang?

stars would have been warmed by the heat of a radiation that permeated all of space, which was much ...

Article - Inside Science - Oct 23 2014 - 7:00am

From The Mouths Of Baby Fireballs

fireball The University of Michigan Infrared Beam Combiner (MIRC), an instrument that combines all six ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2014 - 4:16pm

ATLAS Seeks Invisible Particles With Top Quarks

transverse energy.  A significant missing transverse energy results from a non-null vectorial sum of all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 4 2014 - 9:00am

Lockheed Martin Keeps Fingers Crossed for Orion's First Test Flight

of the spacecraft before it begins carrying humans. "EFT-1 will exercise all of Orion’s re-entry ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 4 2015 - 12:59pm