Physical Sciences

Nobel Prize In Chemistry: Beating Nature’s Limits To Build Super-microscopes

improved things all that much. There happens to be a fundamental limit on the magnification that can be ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 8 2014 - 7:00pm

Magic Magnetic Mirrors Reflect Light In Uncanny Ways

critical," explained Sinclair "as are their magnetic and electrical properties, all of which allow them ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2014 - 8:00am

Could Life Have Existed Just 15 Million Years After The Big Bang?

stars would have been warmed by the heat of a radiation that permeated all of space, which was much ...

Article - Inside Science - Oct 23 2014 - 7:00am

From The Mouths Of Baby Fireballs

fireball The University of Michigan Infrared Beam Combiner (MIRC), an instrument that combines all six ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2014 - 4:16pm

ATLAS Seeks Invisible Particles With Top Quarks

transverse energy.  A significant missing transverse energy results from a non-null vectorial sum of all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 4 2014 - 9:00am

Lockheed Martin Keeps Fingers Crossed for Orion's First Test Flight

of the spacecraft before it begins carrying humans. "EFT-1 will exercise all of Orion’s re-entry ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 4 2015 - 12:59pm

Orion's Test Flight: Recovering America's Space Dream

rigid-hulled inflatable boats (RHIBS) that can all be used in the recovery of the crew module," Irish ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Dec 3 2014 - 7:44pm

Andromeda Is The Violent Bad Boy Of Our Local Group

disordered motion. Stars in a "well ordered" population are all moving coherently, with nearly the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2015 - 6:33pm

Bisphenol A And Hyperactivity: A Fishy Story

behaviors on and their genes can be easily modified. However, as with all models, you have to be careful ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 16 2015 - 11:57am

EPIC: Nearby M Star Has 3 Earths, One In The Goldilocks Zone

discovery is all the more remarkable, he said, because the Kepler telescope lost two reaction wheels that ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2015 - 2:06pm