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'Halo 3' Beta Test Gets off to Rough Start
May 18, 2007 |
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Microsoft Corp.'s public test of its upcoming "Halo 3" video game got off to a rocky start on Wednesday after many users found they were unable to try out the science fiction-themed shooter.
Argonne research unveiling the secrets of nanoparticle haloing
Jun 05, 2008 |
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A glass of milk, a gallon of paint, and a bottle of salad dressing all look to the naked eye like liquids. But when viewed under a microscope these everyday liquids, called "colloids," actually contain small globules or ...
For the First Time, Scientists Measure the Size of a One-Neutron Halo with Lasers
Feb 20, 2009 |
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Atomic nuclei are normally compact structures defined by a sharp border. About twenty-five years ago, it was discovered at the University of California in Berkeley that there are exceptions to this picture: ...
Discovery shows Milky Way halo is split in two
Dec 12, 2007 |
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The Milky Way is an iconic fixture of the night sky for Australians, but if looking at it makes you feel dizzy it could be because distinct parts of the system are spinning in different directions.
Playing a ruthless game
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Plenty of young gamers dream about playing videogames for a living, but Robert Bishop has a plan: It's all a matter of suckering in enough victims to make it happen.
New Limits on the Origin of Dark Matter
Jan 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Determining the identity of dark matter, the mysterious stuff thought to make up the vast majority of matter in the universe, is one of the most fundamental challenges facing modern physics. Through theory ...
Astronomers discover an enormous halo of red giant stars around Andromeda
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Astronomers have found an enormous halo of stars bound to the Andromeda galaxy and extending far beyond the swirling disk seen in images of the famous galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor. The discovery, reported at ...
Dark Matter in a Galaxy
Oct 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stars, the most familiar objects in the night sky, make up only a tiny percentage of the total amount of matter in the universe -- about 2%.
Giant galaxy Messier 87 finally sized up
May 20, 2009 |
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The new observations reveal that Messier 87's halo of stars has been cut short, with a diameter of about a million light-years, significantly smaller than expected, despite being about three times the extent ...
Astronomers Gravitate Toward Einstein's Telescope
Feb 20, 2009 |
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Scientists are harnessing the cosmos as a scientific 'instrument' in their quest to determine the makeup of the universe.
NGC 5746: Detection of hot halo gets theory out of hot water
Feb 03, 2006 |
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Scientists using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have detected an extensive halo of hot gas around a quiescent spiral galaxy. This discovery is evidence that galaxies like our Milky Way are still accumulating ...
A dark matter disk in our Galaxy
Sep 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists predict that our Galaxy, the Milky Way, contains a disk of ‘dark matter’. In a paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers ...
Saturn's Moon Rhea Sports a Dusty Halo
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 06, 2008 |
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Who'd have guessed that Saturn has its own moon-sized vacuum cleaners, circling the ringed planet and sucking up electrons from the plasma at the orbit of the icy moons. Or that one of Saturn's moons has its ...
Study shows clumps and streams of dark matter in inner regions of the Milky Way
Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world to simulate the halo of dark matter that envelopes our galaxy, researchers found dense clumps and streams of the mysterious stuff ...
Video game industry faces tougher year
Feb 22, 2009 |
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After enjoying a banner year in 2008 despite the slowing economy, the video game industry may find the coming year to be more of a challenge.
