Published online 1 October 2008 | Nature 455, 577 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455577a Teams merge for dark-energy mission Competition scrapped in favour of joint...
Nature advance online publication 1 October 2008 | doi:10.1038/nature07332; Received 2 May 2008; Accepted 12 August 2008; Published online 1 October 2008 ...
First detection of magnetic field in distant galaxy produces a surprise The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the world's largest fully...
More star births than astronomers have calculated The "birth rate" for stars is certainly not easy to determine. Distances in the universe are far too great...
Inbox Astronomy - A Celestial Landscape in Celebration of 10 Years of Stunning Hubble Heritage Images October 2, 2008 A Celestial Landscape in Celebration of...
'Little bang' triggered solar system formation Cross-sectional view of one-half of a solar-mass target cloud being struck by a supernova shock front that is...
UK physics in good health - study Big physics facilities in the UK have benefited from a larger science budget UK physics is in good shape but faces a number...
NASA Spacecraft Finds the Sun is Not a Perfect Sphere In this diagram, the sun's oblateness has been magnified 10,000 times for easy visibility. The blue curve...
Originally published in Science Express on 28 August 2008 Science 3 October 2008: Vol. 322. no. 5898, pp. 71 - 73 DOI: 10.1126/science.1162087 Time Reversal...
World's Biggest Computing Grid Launched The world's largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind's biggest data challenge from the earth's most powerful...
Fuzziness on the road to physics' grand unification theory UO physics doctoral student David Reeb and Stephen Hsu, professor of physics and member of the UO...
Physics 1, 26 (2008) doi:10.1103/Physics.1.26 Reconnecting to superfluid turbulence By Joseph J. Niemela The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical...
This week in Physics — October 6, 2008 Viewpoint: Reconnecting to superfluid turbulence Joseph J. Niemela, Physics 1, 26 (2008) – Published October 6,...
In quantum channels, zero plus zero can equal non-zero Two quantum channels that have zero capacity when used individually (orange and yellow figures) can...
Scientific American Magazine - October 6, 2008 Big Bang or Big Bounce?: New Theory on the Universe's Birth Our universe may have started not with a big bang...
Broken symmetry: Answering the solace of quantum NASA file photo of a star formation. Humans like the comfort of symmetry -- the identical image in the mirror,...
Stars stop forming when big galaxies collide M86-NGC4438 complex: A deep image of part of the Virgo cluster revealing tendrils of ionized hydrogen gas 400,000...
Bad connection caused atom smasher shutdown (AP) -- A bad electrical connection likely caused the malfunction that sidelined the world's largest atom smasher...
 Hubble telescope's top ten greatest space photographs  The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth - was voted best picture taken by the...
Spotless Sun: Blankest Year Of The Space Age enlarge Left: A photo of the sun taken Sept. 27, 2008. The face of the sun is "blank," i.e., completely unmarked...
Scientists create superconducting thin films Ivan Bozovic (PhysOrg.com) -- One major goal on the path toward making useful superconducting devices has been...
World first for sending data using quantum cryptography A Computersimulation done by "Die Drahtwarenhandlung" of the Quantumcryptography-Network. Photo by...
New invention that could change design of future memory storage devices A research team at Singapore A*STAR's Data Storage Institute (DSI) has invented a new...
Winding the clock back to the big bang - or not? Whenever I innocently ask an Astronomer or Cosmologists why they conclude a Big Bang in the distant past,...
Cosmic eye sheds light on early galaxy formation The Cosmic Eye, showing the foreground galaxy in yellow at the centre of the image surrounded by the blue arc...
Research center to free chemistry from Earth's bonds A new research center combining the tools of chemistry and astronomy will use the unique laboratory of...
Cosmic strings might emit cosmic sparks, answer cosmological questions (PhysOrg.com) -- For astronomers, understanding what happened in the early moments of...