Physical Sciences

Expendable Technicians

installation) all in the same plane!" If you are cynical enough to consider the matter from the point of ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 22 2009 - 5:05am

What's Going On Around

particle physics, with all its shortcomings, might well be the theory without any need for extensions and ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 23 2010 - 12:19pm

No Screwdrivers In Space

for creating this catchy primer, and for clearly explaining why space is both hard and do-able.  All ...

Article - Project Calliope - Aug 2 2011 - 12:00pm

Your Weekend Dose Of Awesome: An Elliptical Crater On Mercury

features of special scientific interest are targeted for imaging in all 11 colors. The MESSENGER spacecraft ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 3 2013 - 8:30am

Big Crunch Beta Functions: The End Of The Universe Is Closer Than You Think

actually can be worked with together and that they interact with each other. When applying all three ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2013 - 1:33pm

Is The Universe Expanding, Or Are We Shrinking?

However, when taking this latter perspective, one has to ensure that all microscopic lengths shrink in ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Aug 18 2013 - 11:36am

A Simpler Way To Define What Makes A Planet

all eight planets in our solar system and all classifiable exoplanets-- the large bodies that orbit ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2015 - 1:27pm

Black Holes? More Like Donut Holes In The Cosmos

times heavier than the sun. All of these active galactic nuclei have been described, and data is ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2008 - 12:31pm

The Daytime Astronomer at Career Day

space idioms. Mostly, their questions are all over the place. Since you're live, you have to ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - May 15 2009 - 7:28pm

The permittivity of vacuum- why?

multiple of the elementary one, a number without dimension, just count. It all works beautifully in modern ...

Blog Post - Ladislav Kocbach - Dec 13 2010 - 8:28am