Physical Sciences

Orion's Test Flight: Recovering America's Space Dream

rigid-hulled inflatable boats (RHIBS) that can all be used in the recovery of the crew module," Irish ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Dec 3 2014 - 7:44pm

Andromeda Is The Violent Bad Boy Of Our Local Group

disordered motion. Stars in a "well ordered" population are all moving coherently, with nearly the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2015 - 6:33pm

Bisphenol A And Hyperactivity: A Fishy Story

behaviors on and their genes can be easily modified. However, as with all models, you have to be careful ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 16 2015 - 11:57am

EPIC: Nearby M Star Has 3 Earths, One In The Goldilocks Zone

discovery is all the more remarkable, he said, because the Kepler telescope lost two reaction wheels that ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2015 - 2:06pm

ESA’s CHEOPS Satellite: The Pharaoh of Exoplanet Hunting

space. CHEOPS will be the only facility able to follow-up all these targets for precise radius ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Mar 19 2015 - 5:23pm

Spring Flukes: New 3-Sigma Signals From LHCb And ATLAS

not just a Z' boson. And who needs a Z' boson, after all: I am sometimes skeptical of this ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 23 2015 - 11:36am

Why Does Human Skin Have Such Remarkable Toughness?

randomly across the dermis. When something pulls on the skin, all the fibers rotate in the same direction ...

Article - Lisa Marie Potter - May 25 2015 - 10:51am

AMVA4NewPhysics: Statistical Learning And New Discoveries

universe... Anyway, why should all the above interest you? Well, that's easy to explain: if you are ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 13 2015 - 8:28am

Back To The Future: Skyscrapers Will Be Made Of Wood

politicians of all persuasions during the recent election, it is highly likely that engineered timber ...

Article - The Conversation - May 21 2015 - 12:30pm

New Project Aims to Establish a Human Colony on Mars

Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy launch vehicles.” But before MarsPolar will be all set to send a manned mission, ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - May 26 2015 - 6:13pm