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Gravity Waves Make Tornados
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 19, 2008 |
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Did you know that there's a new breakfast food that helps meteorologists predict severe storms? Down South they call it "GrITs."
Cosmologists aim to observe first moments of universe
Feb 16, 2009 |
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During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic density fluctuation in ...
Gravity waves could hold key to supersymmetry
Nov 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "In Geneva," Anupam Mazumdar tells PhysOrg.com, "there is a big effort to discover supersymmetry particles at the Large Hadron Collider. But that is not the only way to find these particles. We should also b ...
Weird wave behavior may explain why the whirligig walks in circles
Mar 04, 2008 |
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The whirligig beetle is named for its trademark of walking in circles on the surface of water. Upon investigating a new phenomenon of water wave generation, scientists might now understand why.
Precise Radio-Telescope Measurements Advance Frontier Gravitational Physics
Sep 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using a continent-wide array of radio telescopes have made an extremely precise measurement of the curvature of space caused by the Sun's gravity, and their technique promises a ...
Method of predicting clear air turbulence could make flights smoother in the future
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 01, 2008 |
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It comes blasting out of the blue on your airplane flight: sudden bumpiness and sometimes even a violent plummeting. It arrives without warning, and it can be more than frightening, since it causes tens of millions of dollars ...
'Van Gogh' simulations give new insight into turbulent stars
Apr 18, 2007 |
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Stunning simulations that give a multi-dimensional glimpse into the interior of stars show that material bubbling around the convection zone induces a rich spectrum of internal gravity waves in the stable layers above and ...
Star crust 10 billion times stronger than steel, physicists find
May 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys.
'Gravity Waves' in Atmosphere May Strengthen Tornadoes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 01, 2006 |
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Giant waves of air rippling through the atmosphere might spin up or intensify tornadoes when they interact with powerful thunderstorms.
QUIET team to deploy new gravity-wave probe in June
May 15, 2009 |
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A tiny fraction of a second following the big bang, the universe allegedly experienced the most inflationary period it has ever known.
Team simulates first merger of 3 black holes on a supercomputer
Apr 08, 2008 |
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The same team of astrophysicists that cracked the computer code simulating two black holes crashing and merging together has now, for the first time, caused a three-black-hole collision.
Faking it for physicists
Jul 06, 2006 |
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In a "faking it" style test, a social scientist has fooled a panel of physicist judges into believing he was an experienced gravitational wave physicist.
Who cares about the fourth dimension?
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Austrian scientists are trying to understand the mysteries of the holographic principle: How many dimensions are there in our universe?
Space tech helps to find natural resources
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Using space-based technology developed during ESA's gravity mission studies, a novel gradiometer is being developed by a UK-based company to help oil and gas companies find the most appropriate locations to ...
Can you hear black holes collide?
Jun 11, 2008 |
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A team of gravitational-wave researchers from four universities has been selected to exhibit at the prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.
