Brian May, guitarist for rock band Queen, completes Ph.D. thesis following 30-year hiatus Brian May, the guitarist and founding member of the legendary rock...
Mother Earth naked -- a modern masterpiece Have you ever wondered what our world would look like stripped bare of all plants, soils, water and man-made...
Dust and gas in the early universe The computer simulation designed by Dr. Yoshida et al. demonstrates how gas and dust came together in the early universe to...
Researchers may have found cosmic Rosetta stone (AP) -- Star light, star bright. The first star grew fast, but began slight. The first cosmological object...
The Amazing Quantum World Of Ultra Cold Matter ScienceDaily (Aug. 1, 2008) - Scientists have been fascinated by the concept of absolute zero, the temperature...
Robert, Does anyone know if this mechanism was stopped at some particular date like clocks sometimes are when a disaster strikes? If so that would date the...
July 30, 2008 The 11th Dimension -Could a Warp Drive Engine Travel Faster Than Light? It is possible to travel faster than light; the catch is that you just...
Tracking down abrupt climate changes In an article in the scientific magazine Nature Geosciences, the geoscientists Achim Brauer, Peter Dulski and Jörg...
A Brief History of Solar Sails NanoSail-D poses after a successful laboratory deployment test. so'lar sail, n. - A gossamer material that, when unfurled in the...
Hitachi Shows Technical Feasibility Of Perpendicular Magnetic Recording At 610 Gbit/in2 Hitachi, Ltd. announced today that it has demonstrated the technical...
China becomes a physics powerhouse Judged by the astonishing increase in journal papers written by scientists in China, there can be little doubt that China is...
The brightest, sharpest, fastest X-ray holograms yet A coherent X-ray beam illuminates both the sample and a uniformly redundant array placed next to it. The...
Clues. Astronomers have found evidence of dark energy among galactic superclusters (red circles) as well as vast supervoids of space (blue circles). Credit: B....
Starbirth. Simulation shows a nascent protostar (lower right) condensing out of a diffuse gas cloud in the early universe (upper left). Credit: N. Yoshida et...
Superfluid-superconductor relationship is detailed Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers at Washington...
Found: The hottest water on Earth a.. 12:05 04 August 2008 b.. NewScientist.com news service c.. Catherine Brahic A Black Smoker Even Jules Verne did not...
SpaceX launch fails a third time The first launch in March 2006 ended with a fuel line leak and a fire A private rocket carrying three satellites, including a...
Tevatron experiments double-team Higgs boson Scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at DOE's Fermilab have combined Tevatron data from their two...
Inbox Astronomy - Globular Clusters Tell Tale of Star Formation in Nearby Galaxy Metropolis August 5, 2008 Globular Clusters Tell Tale of Star Formation in...
Martian soil may contain detrimental substance This undated image provided by NASA shows the Phoenix spacecraft's inverted scoop preparing to take soil samples...
Researchers make milestone discovery in quantum mechanics A close-up of one of the circuits used in the quantum mechanics experiment. Credit: UCSB photo ...
Thousands Of Globular Clusters Identified In Virgo Cluster Of Galaxies enlarge These images taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show four members of...
Viterbi Algorithm Goes Quantum Alice would like to transmit a stream of quantum information to Bob. She shares entanglement in the form of ebits before quantum...
Elastic electronics see better By Jennifer Carpenter Science reporter, BBC News Scientists used a 2cm concave camera to take better pictures A new camera...
Rochester physicist's quantum-'uncollapse' hypothesis verified In 2006, Andrew Jordan, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester,...
Skipping Atomic-scale Stones to Study Some Chemistry Basics Thought experiment: a carbon dioxide molecule-think of a cheerleader's baton-comes slanting in at...