Electrons discover their individuality Electrons between cooperative (coherent) and egocentric behaviour: If an electron is catapulted out of a nitrogen...
Cosmic connections: Scientist locates the origin of cosmic dust Dr Genge's work locates the origin of some cosmic dust. (PhysOrg.com) -- The origin of the...
Physicists Rule Out the Production of Dangerous Black Holes at the LHC Image credit: Maximilien Brice, CERN (PhysOrg.com) -- On August 8, the world's largest...
Is it just me or does this really look like a great 8 legged spider ready to wake up and devour the world! Wonder what alien civilization sent us the...
Giant Furnace Opens to Reveal 'Perfect' LSST Mirror Blank Members of the team building the LSST, a large survey telescope being built in Northern Chile, gather...
This ain't no jive, particle physics rap is a hit (AP) -- Who says science doesn't turn people on? Kate McAlpine is a rising star on YouTube for her rap...
The thousand-ruby galaxy Color-composite image of the startling spiral galaxy Messier 83, made using data from the Wide Field Imager on the ESO/MPG 2.2-m...
Hello Edgar, It seems appropriate to make some predictions here. True, you could probably guess what I am about to state but who is prepared to go on record...
Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole This computer simulation shows what a "hot spot" of gas orbiting a black hole would look like in an extremely...
Fermilab physicists discover 'doubly strange' particle Baryons are particles made of three quarks. The quark model predicts the combinations that exist with...
Nature 455, 2 (4 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/455002a; Published online 3 September 2008 Cool philosophies Abstract High-energy physicists should not gloss...
Published online 3 September 2008 | Nature 455, 13 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455013f Mars rover climbs out of crater to focus on plains NASA/JPL-CALTECH Almost a...
ature 455, 36-37 (4 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/455036a; Published online 3 September 2008 Big data: The Harvard computers Sue Nelson1 1.. Sue Nelson is a...
Theory of the sun's role in formation of the solar system questioned Pale specks on the surface of this meteorite are among the oldest minerals in the solar...
A fine-tooth comb to measure the accelerating universe Artist's impression of the laser comb developed for astronomy. Such a laser comb is necessary to act as...
Volume 22 | Issue 9 | Page 30 The Future of U.S. Science Policy Illustrations by Jordan Domont With an administration change at hand, research could come out...
Physicists investigate how time moves forward As humans, we have a very intuitive concept of time, and of the differences between the past, present, and...
Astronomer Discovers Upper Mass Limit for Black Holes Natarajan found that ultra-massive black holes, which lurk in the centers of huge galaxy clusters like...
New Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Milky Way's Super-massive Black Hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*): The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way...
Speaking of Betelgeuse, Rigel, and supergiant stars in general... The following is from: http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsletter/comparisons.html   ...
New concept for creating quantum states in many-body systems (PhysOrg.com) -- In the online edition of Nature Physics, theoretical physicists from the...
NASA to Explore 'Secret Layer' of the Sun Zeeman splitting of spectral lines from a strongly-magnetized sunspot. Next April, for a grand total of 8 minutes,...
Could Graphene Replace Semiconductors? (PhysOrg.com) -- "People want a faster computer chip," Philip Kim tells PhysOrg.com. "And it needs to be smaller. But in...
Space: The not-so-final frontier Of all environments, space must be the most hostile: It is freezing cold, close to absolute zero, there is a vacuum, so no...
Robert, Fascinating creatures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade , amazing that each adult of some species may have the same number of cells. Edgar ... ...
Published online 9 September 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1085 LHC by the numbers The largest particle accelerator in the world, which will feel its...
Working LHC produces first images a.. 10:51 10 September 2008 b.. NewScientist.com news service c.. Valerie Jamieson, Geneva Some of the first protons to be...