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Inbox Astronomy - Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks July 1, 2008 Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks Get larger image...
Proposed NASA Mission Could Explore Twisted Space Around Black Holes This is a still image from a computer artist's animation of hot iron gas riding upon a...
Can we freeze time? Using lasers to film the secret lives of atoms -- frame by frame Visitors to the exhibit are able to record a slow motion film of a water...
Physicists create millimeter-sized 'Bohr atom' Using laser beams and electric fields, Rice physicists coaxed a point-like, "localized" electron to orbit far...
Super atoms turn the periodic table upside down A small twisted wire, just like the filament in an incandescent bulb, but made of silver, forms the basis for...
June, 2008 Using Causality to Solve the Puzzle of Quantum Spacetime A new approach to the decades-old problem of quantum gravity goes back to basics and shows...
Robert has kindly converted my files on BECs and you can access these pdf versions at this site or paste the link below: Message reads; Alex Not everyone can...
The exhibit, run by a team of Imperial physicists, explains how they use incredibly short flashes of laser light in their London lab to record images of...
Published online 2 July 2008 | Nature 454, 7 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454007a Closer than ever to the Sun Astronomers plan successor for Ulysses spacecraft. Eric...
Published online 2 July 2008 | Nature 454, 8-9 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454008a Reincarnation can save Schrödinger's cat Physicists reverse quantum-classical...
Atomic Tug of War Still of Trajectory 3: forward scattering, clockwise rotation. Credit: Eckart Wrede A new form of energy-transfer, reported today in Nature...
Some fundamental interactions of matter found to be fundamentally different than thought Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's...
This article is self-contradictory, first considering only scattering where there is no chemical reaction and then calling forward scattering a chemical...
This is the same experiment done at the University of Bristol also reported by Robert and commented on by me. However, this write up by the team at Stanford?...
Hi Robert, I followed the link in this article and was quite surprised by what I saw in the animations. There is no indication of the axis titles on both...
I don't understand the image. Since the electron pulls the middle deuterium towards it, it's trajectory in turn should bend toward the deuterium not away from...
Neither Rain Nor Sleet Will Stop NASA's Ares Rockets Kevin McGrath, left, a terrestrial environments engineer at the Marshall Center, and Barry Roberts, a...
Roundest objects in the world created a.. 00:27 01 July 2008 b.. NewScientist.com news service c.. Devin Powell The spheres have "rough spots" that stick out...
Einstein was right: Unique stellar system provides 'laboratory' for testing relativity The double pulsar PSR J0737-3039A/B consists in a binary system made two...
Qubits and Branes Share Surprising Features (Left) A simulated view of a black hole, and (right) a qubit representation. Credit for black hole: Ute Kraus,...
'Smart' materials get smarter with ability to better control shape and size A dynamic way to alter the shape and size of microscopic three-dimensional...
Smallest planet shrinks in size An image of Mercury captured by Messenger at a distance of approximately 17,000 miles (27,500km). On the upper right is the...
Mercury's Surface Dominated By Volcanism And Iron-deficiency Low-iron volcanic plains filling the Caloris impact basin make a large pale-orange patch (C) in...
Japanese sailor first to cross Pacific in wave-powered boat Japanese sailor and adventurer Kenichi Horie takes a cup of coffee on his double-hull boat,...
Want to fly? Don't copy the birds and the bees Karin Jespers studies the flight of a racing pigeon. Reflective tape, similar to that used on safety clothing,...
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