Physical Sciences

in the system. All electrical power, however it is used, eventually ends up as heat in our ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 24 2010 - 12:28pm

pointing as close to 12 o'clock as possible. Here is an example of a great throw executing all of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 27 2019 - 10:22am

With the help of Monte Carlo simulations of all the conceivable physical processes that may give rise ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 3 2010 - 9:55am

thing: I know nothing at all, so I can certainly talk about it without violating any rule! It so happens ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 25 2012 - 9:28am

account continues, a mighty east wind blows all night, splitting the waters and leaving a passage of dry ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2010 - 11:17am

blob of hadronic plasma producing a large number of hadrons in all directions. It is not by chance, in ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 22 2010 - 5:15am

important to keep in mind that, though all 6 planets presented here are well-supported by the calculated ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2010 - 12:03am

is remarkable that the natural top quark width can at all be measured directly! The Indirect ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 19 2010 - 2:47pm

in this place that we all work together toward this common goal." The UA's team was able to ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2011 - 4:31pm

one. It weighs like five whole protons all together. Physicists believe that there is a mystery to ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 10 2011 - 5:01pm

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John
”Just this week, Iran responded to Israel preemptively bombing their planned nuclear weapons facility by launching missiles, and the Israeli missile defense system, the Iron Dome, stopped most of...

Golden Dome Missile Shield A 'No-Brainer', According To EMP Expert · 5 hours ago
John
We can know that this isn't purely a Trumpian thing because of the reviews from two years ago which basically said: 1) Astronomers have treated the people of Hawai'i like crap and owe...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 16 hours ago
Hontas Farmer
I'm not going to say you are wrong about any of the above. I'd not be surprised by a rising price tag as that seems to be how these things always go. I can't think of any big science...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
John
To be honest, TMT did this to themselves by not being honest about the cost from the start. Had they told everyone that the cost for the installation would be on the order of $3 billion (most of...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
Zack Y.
Isn't this a dangerous inversion of how science is supposed to be done? What's to prevent this same scenario playing out for ANY potential discovery coming from a precision measurement...

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