Black hole expelled from its parent galaxy Ejection from the nucleus: for the first time in nature, astronomers have observed a supermassive black, which -...
Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor' 17 memristors in a row are visible on this AFM image. The memristor...
Physicists Build a Quantum Gambling Machine Physicists have realized a quantum gambling machine using optical elements. From a helium-neon laser, a polarizer...
Published online 29 April 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/453011a If you go down to the woods today... Theoretical physicists decamp to the countryside. Eric Hand ...
Published online 30 April 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/453022a Physics: Quantum all the way How does our classical world emerge from the counterintuitive...
Searching the heavens -- GLAST A new space mission, due to launch this month, is going to shed light on some of the most extreme astrophysical processes in...
Scientists describe technique for extracting hierarchical structure of networks Networks -- used throughout the sciences in the study of biological,...
New type of pulsating white dwarf star discovered The image shows the changes in light output over time of the first-discovered pulsating carbon white dwarf...
Geochemists challenge key theory regarding Earth's formation Working with colleagues from NASA, a Florida State University researcher has published a paper...
The Light of Silence Scientists have found a way of protecting quantum systems against noise using adaptively 'shaped' pulses of laser light. Quantum systems...
Big Black Holes Cook Flambeed Stellar Pancakes The disruption of a star by the tidal forces of a massive black hole. The diagram illustrates the progressive...
Supercomputer To Simulate Extreme Stellar Physics A snapshot of a three-dimensional simulation of a Type Ia supernova, shortly after the nuclear flame bubble...
Quantum Mechanical Con Game For the first time, physicists have come up with a scheme that would allow a quantum mechanical expert to win every time in a con...
The Particle Whisperers: Mathematics Explains Why A Gentle Touch Works ScienceDaily (May 5, 2008) - As many parents know, it's often easier to keep your kids...
Cosmic time warp revealed in slow-motion supernovae 20:09 28 April 2008 NewScientist.com news service Stephen Battersby Once upon a time, time was different....
The title of this article is entirely misleading. The supernovae do not experience a time warp Only our observation of them does due to universe expansion ... ...
Published online 30 April 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.789 Found: the missing circuit element Described in 1971, made in 2008: 'memristors' promise a...
Astrophysical Fluid Mechanics: A New Method For Simulating Supersonic Turbulence ScienceDaily (May 7, 2008) - Using DEISA's computational resources within the...
Published online 7 May 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/453146a Earth science: Harnessing the hum A new way to analyse seismic vibrations is bringing order out of...
1968 Science Fiction is Today's Reality Astronauts suited up for a spacewalk in 2001, top, and on the International Space Station. Movie image courtesy...
Researchers Observe Hydrogen-Bond Exchange Image of the H20 and D20 dimers. The H20 dimer appears to fluctuate in the image because they exchange hydrogen...
Caught! This composite image, taken in optical and x-ray light, reveals a filament of hot gas (red) stretching between two interacting galaxy clusters. Credit:...
Yum-yum! It would sicken or kill other organisms, but this mycorrhizal fungus consumes depleted uranium and leaves it in a less mobile form. Credit: Marina...
Designer isotopes push frontiers May 9, 2008 Courtesy U.S. National Science Foundation and World Science staff Designer labels have cachet, and that may now be...
Astronauts say there must be life in space The human race will find life elsewhere in the universe as it pushes ahead with space exploration, astronauts back...
Molecule With 'Self-control' Synthesized ASU researchers synthesize molecule with self-control. (Credit: Image courtesy of Arizona State University) ...
Black holes not black after all International scientists have used flowing water to simulate a black hole, testing Stephen Hawking's theory that black holes...
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