No Big Bang? Endless Universe Made Possible by New Model

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A new cosmological model demonstrates the universe can endlessly expand and contract, providing a rival to Big Bang theories and solving a thorny modern physics problem, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physicists.


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New Membrane Model May Unlock Secrets of Early-Stage Alzheimer's

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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and three collaborating institutions are using a new laboratory model of the membrane surrounding neurons in the brain to study how a protein ...

Sandia to Demonstrate Hyperspectral Confocal Fluorescence Microscope

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Sandia National Laboratories will demonstrate a new hyperspectral confocal fluorescence microscope Friday, Aug. 8 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. MDT in Bldg. 897 on Kirtland Air Force Base. This patent-protected and patent-pending technology ...

A 'New Dimension' at the LHC

Jul 22, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Later this year, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, will begin operating, sending beams of protons hurling around circular tracks ...

Physicists shed light on key superconductivity riddle

Jul 21, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT physicists believe they have identified a mysterious state of matter that has been linked to the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity.

Exotic materials using neptunium, plutonium provide insight into superconductivity

Jul 21, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Physicists at Rutgers and Columbia universities have gained new insight into the origins of superconductivity – a property of metals where electrical resistance vanishes – by studying exotic chemical compounds that contain ...
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