Disappearing Superconductivity Reappears -- in 2-D Stripe order in the copper oxide planes involves both a modulation of the charge density (blue), detectable...
Ship-in-a-bottle kit on a microchip Pumps teaming up and working together: In a magnetic field the microspheres (orange) form diamond shaped valves and a cog...
Omega Centauri -- The Glittering Giant of the Southern Skies The globular cluster Omega Centauri -- with as many as 10 million stars -- is seen in all its...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 391, Issue 3, 2008. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121540358/issue Online ISSN: 1365-2966 ...
Published online 3 December 2008 | Nature 456, 559 (2008) | doi:10.1038/456559b Hawking plans long commute to Canada Stephen Hawking is taking a position in...
Brown Dwarfs Do Form Like Stars This artist's conception shows the brown dwarf ISO-Oph 102. Observations by the Submillimeter Array suggest that it is forming...
Why Is The Earth's Mantle Conductive? ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2008) - Researchers from INSU-CNRS, working with chemists at a CNRS research unit, have explained...
Inbox Astronomy - A Celestial Snow Globe of Stars December 4, 2008 A Celestial Snow Globe of Stars Get larger image formats Find the entire Hubble News...
First superconducting transistor promises PC revolution a.. 03 December 2008 by Paul Marks b.. Magazine issue 2685. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. A sample...
This week in Physics — December 8, 2008 Viewpoint: Filling a cavity with photons, and watching them leave Alexandre Blais, Jay M. Gambetta, Physics 1, 39...
LHC to Restart in 2009 The LHC tunnel Click here to enlarge image CERN today confirmed that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will restart in 2009. This news...
Wait a second: 2008 gets extended by timekeepers (AP) -- With a brutal economic slowdown, 2008 may feel as if it will never end. Now the world's timekeepers...
Inbox Astronomy - Hubble Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar Planet December 9, 2008 Hubble Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar Planet Artists' concept Get...
HiRISE Camera Captures High-Resolution 3-D Images of Mars Swirls of rock appear on the floor of Candor Chasma, about 4 kilometers, or 2.5 miles, below the...
Unprecedented 16-year-long study tracks stars orbiting Milky Way black hole This is the central parts of our galaxy, the Milky Way, as observed in the...
Lights, Camera, Render: Visualizing the Universe Scientists at the KIPAC Computational Physics Department simulate the birth of a galaxy. The red plumes...
Atomic Clock Could Be Miniturized ScienceDaily (Dec. 9, 2008) - The world's most precise clock - on which all time-keeping and navigation systems are based -...
Robert, Red/cyan 3D images are called anaglyphs. Here is an even better one of Phobos: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2008/details/phobos/ anaglyph.jpg ...
Black hole confirmed in Milky Way By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News The Milky Way was tracked from an observatory in Chile There is a giant black...
Published online 10 December 2008 | Nature 456, 689 (2008) | doi:10.1038/456689f Hadron collider faces long wait for repairs CERN The Large Hadron Collider...
Nature 456, 773-777 (11 December 2008) | doi:10.1038/nature07607; Received 27 June 2008; Accepted 30 October 2008 A solid-state light-matter interface at the...
New detector will aid dark matter search An inside view of a neutron detector in development at MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science. Pappalardo Fellow Jocelyn...
Researchers Observe Magnus Effect in Light for First Time (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have become the first to...
Voiding the Cosmic Void: We're not at Center of the Universe After All Models of the universe that place us near the center of a large, sparse region don't...
Researchers explain mystery of gravity fingers Researchers at MIT recently found an elegant solution to a sticky scientific problem in basic fluid mechanics:...
Bit of bling adds new dimension to laser beam technology Richard Mildren works with a CVD diamond. Click here to enlarge image (PhysOrg.com) -- No longer just...
Researcher nabs 'doubly magic' tin isotope Daniel Bazin is a senior physicist with MSU's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. Photo by G.L. Kohuth. ...
Did our cosmos exist before the big bang? a.. 10 December 2008 by Anil Ananthaswamy b.. Magazine issue 2686. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. c.. For similar...