Physical Sciences

Are Your Data Fluctuating As They Should?

Poisson distribution. To explain better what all of that implies: if you one day observe N 35-year-olds, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 9 2017 - 11:08am

Guest Post: Eleni Petrakou, A Model Of The Solar Cycle

middle is. After all, it is ongoing and stuff, however there is still something predictable about it: the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 26 2018 - 6:12am

MIT Microscope Solves Mystery Of "Throbbing" Oil

possible until now. Try it yourself. Pour clean water onto a small plate. Wait for all the ripples to stop. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2007 - 3:30pm

Coherent Radiation Laser Modifies Optical Shutter- Without Heat

It’s a rare case of all light and no heat: A new study reports that a laser can be used to switch ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2007 - 10:27pm

Engineers Trap A Rainbow

chasing rainbows. They may not wish literally to capture all the colors of the spectrum, but they do seek ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2008 - 2:11pm

Fundamental Physics Perhaps Not So Fundamental

We all know what happens when cars collide on the freeway or an anvil lands on Wile E. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2008 - 9:37pm

Electroweak Physics At PIC 2009

dealt with Electroweak Physics. The four talks I could listen to were all of very good quality, and I am ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 31 2009 - 2:18pm

A Cosmic Test For General Relativity

years ago by Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity. But that's not all. They also ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2010 - 2:55pm

WIMPs Result Sheds Some Light On Dark Matter?

and then collapse again- that's what all that mass and its gravity in the universe should do. But ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2011 - 11:59am

Sagittarius Discovery: S0-102's Blazing Fast Orbit Around The Milky Way's Black Hole

Black holes may not be so dangerous to stars after all. The discovery of a star named S0-102 may ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 4 2012 - 2:35pm