Physical Sciences

Lexus Hoverboard Gets Off The Ground

"quantum vortices." How cool is that? (Wikimedia Commons) To levitate the superconductor, all you need ...

Article - Michael Greshko - Jun 29 2015 - 9:30am

Parton Distribution Functions For Run 2 At The LHC

a probability that is sometimes very hard to calculate.  In spite of being smaller than the nucleus of all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 24 2015 - 3:10pm

Lights Changes Sleep Patterns

electricity now didn't have it in the early 1990s-- and those who have grown up with it all their lives. ...

Article - Inside Science - Jul 14 2015 - 11:00am

Non-magnetic Elements Form Unique Magnet

metals. Atomic moments in local-moment ferromagnets – that is, common magnetic materials – align all of ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2015 - 2:42pm

First CMS Physics Result At 13 TeV: Top Quarks

in very good match with theory, so for now all we can say is that CMS is back in business and that ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 22 2015 - 3:48am

Say, Where Can We Get A Drink In This Solar System?

rocket fuel) would be foolish to plunge all the way inwards to the Earth, from where they’d have to haul ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 25 2015 - 3:00am

Highlights From ICNFP 2015

is so, as the atmosphere benefits from a relatively small number of participants who can all have ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 31 2015 - 3:59pm

Superconduction With Stinks — A New Temperature Record

a guide for achieving high transition temperatures with no theoretical upper bound — all that is needed is ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Sep 2 2015 - 3:44pm

5 Myths About Gravitational Waves

astrophysical processes, which are happening all the time. The most dominant of these sources is the rotation of ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 6 2015 - 8:30am

Place Your Bets: The Top 5 Candidates For 'Dark Matter'

explaining a lot of observations in physics, states that all “boson” particles – such as the neutron – have ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 14 2015 - 8:56am