Buffer gas cooling could open up the field of ultracold physics
Sep 17, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (22) |
2
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Scientists have been making Bose-Einstein Condensates [BECs] for nearly 15 years," Charlie Doret tells PhysOrg.com. "Essentially all BEC research to date, however, begins with laser cooling. Unfortunately, ...
Researchers make rare meteorite find using new camera network in Australian desert
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (19) |
4
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered an unusual kind of meteorite in the Western Australian desert and have uncovered where in the Solar System it came from, in a very rare finding published today ...
Out of darkness, sight: How the brain learns to see
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 17, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (17) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cases of restored vision after a lifetime of blindness, though exceedingly rare, provide a unique opportunity to address several fundamental questions regarding brain function. After being ...
New NASA temperature maps provide 'whole new way of seeing the moon'
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (14) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's first-ever moon temperature-mapping effort has returned its first data.
Vaginal Orgasm is Best According to New Study
Sep 17, 2009 |
3.1 / 5 (21) |
3
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by Stuart Brody and Petr Weiss suggests vaginal orgasm is best and that sex education and medical approaches might undervalue its benefits. It also asserted the major factors in achieving vaginal ...
'Tiny' new T-Rex ancestor found in China (w/ Video)
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 17, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (14) |
2
(PhysOrg.com) -- A 9-foot dinosaur from northeastern China had evolved all the hallmark anatomical features of Tyrannosaurus rex at least 125 million years ago. University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno ...
Magnetism observed in gas for the first time
Sep 17, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (14) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, MIT scientists have observed ferromagnetism in an atomic gas, addressing the decades-old question of whether gases could show properties similar to a magnet made of iron or nickel. Specifically, ...
Solar Cycle Driven by More than Sunspots
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
4.2 / 5 (14) |
4
(PhysOrg.com) -- Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun's impact on Earth over the course of the 11-year solar ...
Galaxy-Sized Observatory for Gravitational Waves
Sep 17, 2009 |
4.2 / 5 (13) |
14
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers are making plans to create a galaxy-sized observatory to look for gravitational waves. The project is part of a joint effort with astronomers from Australia and Europe, who also ...
Planck first light yields promising results (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (11) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Planck, ESA's mission to study the early Universe, started surveying the sky regularly from its vantage point at L2 on 13 August. The instruments of ESA's 'time machine' were fine-tuned for ...
Yes, that soda will make you fat
Sep 17, 2009 |
4.1 / 5 (13) |
12
(PhysOrg.com) -- While health officials have long suspected the link between obesity and soda consumption, research released today provides the first scientific evidence of the potent role soda and other sugar-sweetened ...
New Drake equation to quantify habitability?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
3.5 / 5 (13) |
6
Researchers from the Open University are laying the groundwork for a new equation that could mathematically quantify a habitat's potential for hosting life, in a similar way to how the Drake equation estimates ...
Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks
Sep 17, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (8) |
0
(AP) -- Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.
Oddball stars explained
Sep 17, 2009 |
4.1 / 5 (9) |
2
(PhysOrg.com) -- New observations solve longstanding mystery of tipped rotation. In addition to shedding light on how binary stars form, the explanation knocks down a possible challenge to Einstein's theory ...
Handheld 3M digital projector offers glimpse of the future
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 17, 2009 |
4.1 / 5 (9) |
1
You probably shouldn't buy the MPro120 handheld digital projector from 3M. But you should definitely be excited about it.
