Physical Sciences

The Kilogram Is Heavier Than It Used To Be Too

the IPK. All the others are standardized against known constants.  So how could it be heavier, since ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2013 - 5:31am

From The Great Wall To The Great Collider

open communication and distribution of information. And China must still demonstrate that they are all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 8 2016 - 2:14pm

Does Organic Food Cause Cognitive Decline?

astrologers peer-reviewing each other. Others want it to be true for their own reasons. Knowing all that, ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 17 2022 - 2:49pm

One More Higgs Search: H To Four Leptons

"baseline", and accepts four-lepton events passing all cuts and with the "looser Z" having an ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 23 2011 - 11:43am

The Geminid Meteor Shower Is As Strong As Ever

will produce awesome fireballs in the night sky. While all dust particles in a cometary trail slowly ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 17 2020 - 5:59am

Solved: The Mystery Of The Bicycle

the fork points downwards. These choices were once made by all bicycle makers and have been rarely ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2007 - 12:56am

Big Planets Need To Grow Fast Or Die Young

Long Beach, Calif. Even though nearly all gas giant-forming disks in NGC 2362 have disappeared, several ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2009 - 2:51pm

The Daytime Astronomer Probably Shouldn't Talk About Rejection

you, after all. This makes him not as useful in job hunting as one might think, since job hunting is ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jun 19 2009 - 7:21pm

Way too many jokes to even bother with a clever title

other tools. "Oh, great," she mumbled. Really? 'Oh great'? That's all you can ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 18 2008 - 8:42pm

We Can Put A Man On The Moon, But We’re Still Figuring Out How Birds Fly

the secrets of flight: when birds, bats or bugs make a turn, all they have to do is start flapping ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Apr 13 2009 - 10:21pm