Physical Sciences

Maine Solar System model: new roadside attraction

out and stretch your legs to see it. The models are mounted on 10-foot high posts and you can read all ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Dec 11 2008 - 12:37pm

Classical Gravity in Planck Units: Looking at a old equation from a new angle

dimensions disappear!   This is not supposed to happen unless all three base units are set equal to one all ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 23 2009 - 11:44am

Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer- GOCE flies

groovy new technology using, of all cool material, xenon. GOCE will from time to time get a xenon boost ...

Blog Post - Bente Lilja Bye - Apr 12 2009 - 10:04am

Wildfires near NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

flammable brush and drop fire retardant from the air. We are grateful to all the firefighters bravely ...

Blog Post - Dan Coe - Sep 4 2009 - 12:16pm

Force & Motion- 5th Grade Style (DAY 1)

so what is this all leading up to?  INERTIA!  Everything stays as is until a force is added.  What ...

Blog Post - Diana Flores - Sep 7 2009 - 6:11pm

Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Theory Event-Probability Interpretation

Schrodinger’s cat lives easy without any superposition of states until the microevent awaited by all occures. ...

Blog Post - Gunn Quznetsov - Apr 16 2010 - 4:22am

A Typical Week In A 1-Person Satellite Project

isolation.  Putting them all together and ensuring they talk to each other-- that'll be the trick. In ...

Article - Project Calliope - Jun 14 2011 - 2:55pm

Light Higgs Discovered And About To Destroy The Universe

fluctuating, we expect tiny “bubbles” of other vacua to be forming around us all of the time. Source: Vice – in ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Dec 13 2011 - 8:41pm

For New Year's Eve, Toast The Chemistry Of Champagne

fermentation. Some bottles wound up with no bubbles at all while others got too much carbon dioxide and exploded ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2011 - 3:43pm

The Multiverse

possibilities--all the rest of them happen in other universes. The second such approach comes from string theory, ...

Article - Amir D. Aczel - Nov 5 2012 - 9:19pm