Physical Sciences

ESA’s CHEOPS Satellite: The Pharaoh of Exoplanet Hunting

space. CHEOPS will be the only facility able to follow-up all these targets for precise radius ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Mar 19 2015 - 5:23pm

Spring Flukes: New 3-Sigma Signals From LHCb And ATLAS

not just a Z' boson. And who needs a Z' boson, after all: I am sometimes skeptical of this ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 23 2015 - 11:36am

Why Does Human Skin Have Such Remarkable Toughness?

randomly across the dermis. When something pulls on the skin, all the fibers rotate in the same direction ...

Article - Lisa Marie Potter - May 25 2015 - 10:51am

AMVA4NewPhysics: Statistical Learning And New Discoveries

universe... Anyway, why should all the above interest you? Well, that's easy to explain: if you are ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 13 2015 - 8:28am

Back To The Future: Skyscrapers Will Be Made Of Wood

politicians of all persuasions during the recent election, it is highly likely that engineered timber ...

Article - The Conversation - May 21 2015 - 12:30pm

New Project Aims to Establish a Human Colony on Mars

Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy launch vehicles.” But before MarsPolar will be all set to send a manned mission, ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - May 26 2015 - 6:13pm

Lexus Hoverboard Gets Off The Ground

"quantum vortices." How cool is that? (Wikimedia Commons) To levitate the superconductor, all you need ...

Article - Michael Greshko - Jun 29 2015 - 9:30am

Parton Distribution Functions For Run 2 At The LHC

a probability that is sometimes very hard to calculate.  In spite of being smaller than the nucleus of all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 24 2015 - 3:10pm

Lights Changes Sleep Patterns

electricity now didn't have it in the early 1990s-- and those who have grown up with it all their lives. ...

Article - Inside Science - Jul 14 2015 - 11:00am

Non-magnetic Elements Form Unique Magnet

metals. Atomic moments in local-moment ferromagnets – that is, common magnetic materials – align all of ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2015 - 2:42pm