Unravelling the random fluctuations of nothing The dream of theoretical physics is to unite behind a common theory that explains everything, but that goal has...
Inbox Astronomy - Uncovering the Veil Nebula August 2, 2007 Uncovering the Veil Nebula Get larger image formats Find the entire Hubble News archive, image...
Free will - is our understanding wrong? 01 August 2007 NewScientist.com news service Zeeya Merali REDEFINE the concept of free will? Only a Nobel laureate...
Quantum Dance Draws Unexpected Guests Science Daily - It was always thought to be restricted to everyday types, with no magnetic sorts allowed in the door. But...
Researchers answer long-standing question in the field of condensed matter physics Northeastern University Physics professor Sergey V. Kravchenko along with...
First light for word's largest 'thermometer camera' The world's largest bolometer camera for submillimetre astronomy is now in service at the 12-m APEX...
Spitzer Spies Monster Galaxy Pileup One of the biggest galaxy collisions ever observed is taking place at the center of this image. The four yellow blobs in...
Probing Question: Why does the Earth rotate? We spend our lives on a spinning globe -- it takes only 24 hours to notice that, as night follows day and the...
Scientist float levitation theory St Andrews scientists have discovered a new way of levitating tiny objects - paving the way for future applications in...
New Dark Matter Candidate Proposed A vacuum - space essentially void of any matter whatsoever - is a strange thing. And it may be even stranger, according to...
Nature 448, 672-675 (9 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/nature06036; Received 4 May 2007; Accepted 15 June 2007 Strong dipolar effects in a quantum ferrofluid ...
Can meteorites carry primitive life from one planet to another? An academic from the University of Aberdeen will be one of more than 60 scientists and...
Researchers rely on Newton's interference for new experiment The FEL pulse from the left passes through a hole in a multilayer-coated detector mirror. The...
Astronomers Spot Brightest Galaxies in the Distant Universe The AzTEC submillimeter camera detected this bright source (left) in a region of the sky studied by...
Nearby black hole caught burping gamma rays 23:21 07 August 2007 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga Matter sucked from a companion star swirls in a disc...
Science 10 August 2007: Vol. 317. no. 5839, p. 765 DOI: 10.1126/science.317.5839.765 Introduction to special issue The Electron Stopwatch Ian Osborne and Jake...
Long-standing Question In The Field Of Condensed Matter Physics Answered Science Daily - Northeastern University Physics professor Sergey V. Kravchenko along...
First Light For Word's Largest 'Thermometer Camera' Science Daily - The world's largest bolometer camera for submillimetre astronomy is now in service at the...
Unleashed Computer Power Science Daily - Supercomputing-like performance could be available for countless scientific applications through an approach that...
Pick of the litter. This little dot is one of five recently discovered full-sized galaxies that are more than 12 billion years old. Credit: Harvard-Smithsonian...
Computers Expose The Physics Of NASCAR Science Daily - It's an odd combination of Navier-Stokes equations and NASCAR driving. The Draft Track technology lets...
Race Is on to Detect Dark Matter (AP) -- In deep underground laboratories around the globe, a high-tech race is on to spot dark matter, the invisible cosmic...
Physicist Takes A Trip To Nuclear 'Island Of Inversion' Science Daily - Far from the everyday world occupied by such common elements such as gold and lead lies...
Tectonic plates act like variable thermostat Like a quilt that loses heat between squares, the earth's system of tectonic plates lets warmth out at every...
Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern...
China reveals deadly threat to historic space flight China's historic first manned space mission narrowly averted disaster when ground control lost contact...
Israeli Researcher Develops New Theoretical Model of Time Machine Technion Israel Institute of Technology researchers have developed a theoretical model of a...
Full-time Sensors Can Detect Bridge Defects Science Daily - Networks of small, permanently mounted sensors could soon check continuously for the formation of...
Quantum Analog Of Ulam's Conjecture Can Guide Molecules, Reactions Science Daily - Like navigating spacecraft through the solar system by means of gravity and...