Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth An artist's concept of Earth's magnetic field connecting to the sun's--a.k.a. a "flux transfer event"--with a spacecraft...
'Ghost of Mirach' Materializes in Space Telescope Image The "Ghost of Mirach" galaxy is shown in visible light on the left, and in ultraviolet on the right....
Rough neighborhood. Miniplanets, called planetesimals, enjoyed only a brief existence in the early solar system. Credit: Damir Gamulin (Science) First Planets...
Hubble Back In Business: Pair Of Gravitationally Interacting Galaxies In Full View Perfect "10" due to the chance alignment of two galaxies. The left-most...
Cosmic consistency check Consistency Tests for the Cosmological Constant Caroline Zunckel and Chris Clarkson Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 181301 (Published October...
Physics 1, 33 (2008) DOI: 10.1103/Physics.1.33 Switching a nanomagnet is all in the timing Jonathan Sun IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research...
What to do with 15 million gigabytes of data When it is fully up and running, the four massive detectors on the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN...
On another list I proposed that these particles are the first evidence of the existence of super symmetric partners. yanni ... From: Robert Karl Stonjek...
Nature 456, 73-76 (6 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/nature07411; Received 19 June 2008; Accepted 4 September 2008 Prospects for detecting supersymmetric dark...
Giant simulation could solve mystery of 'dark matter' The search for a mysterious substance which makes up most of the Universe could soon be at an end,...
Electron pairs precede high-temperature superconductivity Map of the spectral intensity of photoelectrons emitted from a high-Tc superconductor in the...
Tackling the big questions -- approaching a revolution in our understanding of gravity (PhysOrg.com) -- The way galaxies move through the cosmos has recently...
Proof by computer - Harnessing the power of computers to verify mathematical proofs New computer tools have the potential to revolutionize the practice of...
A pool of distant galaxies -- the deepest ultraviolet image of the universe yet The Chandra Deep Field South, observed in the U-, B-, and R-bands with ESO's...
Physicists create BlackMax to search for dimensions in space at the Large Hadron Collider A team of theoretical and experimental physicists, with participants...
Giant simulation could help solve "dark matter" mystery Nov. 5, 2008 Courtesy Durham University and World Science staff A giant computer simulation could help...
This week in Physics — November 10, 2008 Viewpoint: Undoing a quantum measurement Christoph Bruder, Daniel Loss, Physics 1, 34 (2008) – Published...
Physics 1, 34 (2008) DOI: 10.1103/Physics.1.34 Undoing a quantum measurement Christoph Bruder and Daniel Loss Department of Physics, University of Basel,...
Physicists Create BlackMax To Search For Extra Dimensions In The Universe enlarge Black holes are theorized to be regions in space where the gravitational...
The Sun Shows Signs of Life New-cycle sunspot group 1007 emerges on Halloween and marches across the face of the sun over a four-day period in early November...
'Super-microscope' opens at Isis The world's newest "super microscope" is fired up and ready to go. The £200m second target station at Isis in Oxfordshire...
NASA Begins Hunt for New Meteor Showers An outburst of bright meteors over the Marshall Space Flight Center observed by the Sentinel system on Sept. 9, 2008. ...
Dusty Shock Waves Generate Planet Ingredients NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected quartz-like crystals called cristobalite in young planetary systems....
Robert, 'Peer into a newborn baby's lungs as it takes its first breath' by irradiating it with a flux of 20,000,000,000,000 neutrons/sec! YOu've got to be...
Scientists fabricate first plasma transistor A plasma lamp contains a partially ionized gas. For the first time, researchers have fabricated a plasma...
Physicists testing Nobel-winning theory (PhysOrg.com) -- Soeren Prell and a team of Iowa State University researchers are part of an international research...