http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. It's the stuff of a Hollywood disaster epic: A comet plunges from outer space into the Earth's atmosphere, splitting the sky with a devastating shock wave that flattens forests and shakes the countryside. http://www.physorg.com/news179994144.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:23:19 EST news179994144 A team of physicists has directly observed a reverse shock wave of light in a specially tailored structure known as a left-handed metamaterial. Although it was first predicted over forty years ago, this is the first unambiguous experimental demonstration of the effect. The research is reported in Physical Review Letters and highlighted with a Viewpoint in the November 2 issue of Physics. http://www.physorg.com/news176397143.html Physics Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:14:10 EST news176397143 (PhysOrg.com) -- Every month, Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay fires her 20-foot gun in the basement of Harvard's Hoffman Lab, sending shivers through the concrete and steel structure that can be picked up by seismometers upstairs. http://www.physorg.com/news176050830.html Space & Earth Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:01:07 EST news176050830 (PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, most nuclear fusion power plants are large, expensive projects that will take decades to benefit from. But a startup company in Vancouver, Canada, called General Fusion is taking the fast track to fusion, with a plan to build a working prototype fusion power plant within the next decade at a cost of less than a billion dollars. http://www.physorg.com/news168623833.html Physics Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:57:53 EST news168623833 Comets contained vast oceans of liquid water in their interiors during the first million years of their formation, a new study claims. http://www.physorg.com/news168179623.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:34:46 EST news168179623 This beautiful image gives a new look at Stephan's Quintet, a compact group of galaxies discovered about 130 years ago and located about 280 million light years from Earth. The curved, light blue ridge running down the center of the image shows X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. http://www.physorg.com/news166371617.html Space & Earth Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:21:24 EST news166371617 This image of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope shows a part of the roughly circular supernova remnant known as RCW 86. http://www.physorg.com/news165682009.html Space & Earth Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:47:47 EST news165682009 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Delaware researchers in Sweden have launched a giant balloon taller than a football field that is now flying at the edge of space to collect data on cosmic rays -- the most super-charged particles in the universe. http://www.physorg.com/news162143391.html Space & Earth Thu, 21 May 2009 19:35:59 EST news162143391 (PhysOrg.com) -- A survey by the Chandra X-ray observatory has revealed in detail, for the first time, the effects of a shock wave blasted through a galaxy by powerful jets of plasma emanating from a supermassive black hole at the galactic core. The observations of Centaurus A, the nearest galaxy that contains these jets, have enabled astronomers to revise dramatically their picture of how jets affect the galaxies in which they live. The results will be presented on Wednesday 22nd April at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Hatfield by Dr Judith Croston of the University of Hertfordshire. http://www.physorg.com/news159636527.html Space & Earth Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:29:53 EST news159636527 (PhysOrg.com) -- Shock waves are a well tested phenomenon on a large scale, but scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators from Wayne State University and Cornell University have made a breakthrough that reveals the interaction between shockwaves created by high-pressure supersonic fuel jets. http://www.physorg.com/news156088475.html Physics Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:55:12 EST news156088475 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is concluding a series of flight tests to measure shock waves generated by an F-15 jet in an effort to validate computer models that could be used in designing quieter supersonic aircraft. http://www.physorg.com/news151861400.html Space & Earth Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:43:58 EST news151861400 (PhysOrg.com) -- Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. http://www.physorg.com/news145639908.html Space & Earth Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:31:48 EST news145639908 Acoustic waves play many everyday roles - from communication between people to ultrasound imaging. Now the highest frequency acoustic waves in materials, with nearly atomic-scale wavelengths, promise to be useful probes of nanostructures such as LED lights. However, detecting them isn't so easy. http://www.physorg.com/news134322564.html Nanotechnology Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:49:24 EST news134322564