Why Some Electronics, And Their Component Alloys, Age More Quickly Than Others Observation of a film of aluminum at 420°C by transmission electronic...
Scientists identify smallest known black hole The lowest-mass known black hole belongs to a binary system named XTE J1650-500. The black hole has about 3.8...
Two Yellow Supergiant Eclipsing Binary Systems Discovered: First Of Their Kind Ever Found Ohio State University astronomers and their colleagues have...
Huge Amounts Of Data Storage May Be Possible Using Ultra-small Needles Dutch researcher Alexander le Fèbre has demonstrated that a field-emission current...
March 27, 2008 Does Turning Fluorescent Lights Off Use More Energy Than Leaving Them On? Incandescent lightbulbs are lumbering toward extinction. Now, how best...
Newly Discovered Galaxy Cluster In Early Stage Of Formation Is Farthest Away Ever Identified Two galaxies interacting. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of...
Bon MOT: Innovative atom trap catches highly magnetic atoms Trapped erbium: Color-enhanced image of a cloud of erbium atoms trapped and cooled and a...
2,500 Researchers, 1 Large Hadron Collider, 1 New Snapshot Of The Universe ScienceDaily (Apr. 2, 2008) - Deep in the bowels of the earth --100 metres below...
Stars Burst Into Life In The Early Universe Simulation of dramatic merging event of two galaxies in the early universe. (Credit: Tiziana Di Matteo (MPE/CMU),...
'Alice' loss would 'waste £25m' By Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News Alice will cost approximately £3m a year to run A world class...
Hybrid computer materials may lead to faster, cheaper technology A modern computer contains two different types of components: magnetic components, which...
Graphene gazing gives glimpse of foundations of universe Researchers at The University of Manchester have used graphene to measure an important and mysterious...
Source Of Solar Wind Discovered Image of the Sun in X-rays. (Credit: NASA)ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2008) - An international team of scientists have found the...
Published Online April 3, 2008 Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1156965 Submitted on February 25, 2008 Accepted on March 26, 2008 Fine Structure Constant Defines...
Proceedings of The Royal Society A ISSN: 1364-5021 (Paper) 1471-2946 (Online) Issue: Volume 463, Number 2086 / 08 October 2007 Pages: 2557-2568 DOI:...
Robert, It is interesting that no one actually knows what a magnetic or electric field is. We can describe it mathematically, but what it actually is eludes...
Edgar, I believe the E&M fields are actually quantum waves or eigenfunctions of the photon and as such have the same level of existence or reality as say the...
Old galaxies stick together in the young universe UK astronomers have developed the most sensitive infrared map of the distant universe ever produced,...
T-REX is monster light source with multiple applications T-REX schematics. When it comes to laser-based light sources, there are few brighter than T-REX, an...
Week of April 5, 2008; Vol. 173, No. 14 , p. 216 Quantum Cocoon Diamonds are a physicist's-and perhaps quantum computing's-best friend Davide Castelvecchi ...
By the numbers. This map from 1540 has notations in Aztec numbers depicting dimensions of lands near Texcoco, the ancient capital of the Acolhua Aztecs. ...
Green light. Clumped up material from a stellar companion breaks free and releases x-rays (bright spot) before becoming trapped permanently in a black hole's...
Thousand visit at atom-smashing lab, ahead of major research More than 60,000 people this weekend visited the immense cathedral of cables and steel at CERN,...
Don't know if this has been said yet, but the LCH is the GOD Machine or at least a modern cathedral that everyone will want to visit and worship Clem ... From:...
Periodic Table: Nuclear Scientists Eye Future Landfall On A Second 'Island Of Stability' In the region of the heaviest (superheavy) elements, there may be an...
Milky Way seen to be a galactic cannibal A stream of debris across the sky is the result of intergalactic cannibalism, researchers from The Australian National...
Solar System's 'look-alike' found By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News, Belfast Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star...
Entanglement on demand One of the problems in quantum information processing is inefficiency. Photon entanglement is generally considered a leading candidate...