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More precise measurements of the W boson

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (17) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- "The W boson is one of the very few major building blocks of matter," Dmitri Denisov tells PhysOrg.com. "It is a member of a family of particles that is the most fundamental in nature. The W boson is res ...


Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

Large Hadron Collider produces first physics results

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (34) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first paper on proton collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - designed to provide the highest energy ever explored with particle accelerators - is published online this week ...


Theorists propose a new way to shine -- and a new kind of star

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 4

Dying, for stars, has just gotten more complicated. For some stellar objects, the final phase before or instead of collapsing into a black hole may be what a group of physicists is calling an electroweak star.


Rice physicists find reappearing quantum trios

Rice physicists find reappearing quantum trios

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (43) | comments 8

Using atoms at temperatures colder than deep space, Rice University physicists have delivered overwhelming proof for a once-scoffed-at theory that's become a hotbed for research some 40 years after it first ...


Bacteria

Plasma produces KO cocktail for MRSA

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 3

MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) and other drug-resistant bacteria could face annihilation as low-temperature plasma prototype devices have been developed to offer safe, quick, easy and un ...


Iran to unveil new home-built satellite: report

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Iran will unveil a new home-built satellite in February, a newspaper reported Thursday, amid Western concerns that Tehran is using its nuclear and space industries to develop atomic and ballistic weapons.


The Formation of Blue Stragglers

Vampires and collisions rejuvenate stars

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Stars in globular clusters are generally extremely old, with ages of 12-13 billion years. However, a small fraction of them appear to be significantly younger than the average population and, because they ...


IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities in the Next Five Years (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years.


Beaming in on Warm Dense Matter (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment II (NDCX-II) now under construction at Berkeley Lab will deliver a high-current pulse of lithium ions to a foil target almost simultaneously, momentarily heating ...


Researchers revise long-held theory of fruit-fly development

Researchers revise long-held theory of fruit-fly development

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For decades, science texts have told a simple and straightforward story about a particular protein—a transcription factor—that helps the embryo of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, pattern tissues in a m ...


Giant Planet Set for a Cataclysmic Show

Giant Planet Set for a Cataclysmic Show

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Chinese astronomers have discovered a giant planet close to the exotic binary star system QS Virginis. Although dormant now, in the future the two stars will one day erupt in a violent ...


Inside the dark heart of the Eagle

Inside the dark heart of the Eagle

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Herschel has peered inside an unseen stellar nursery and revealed surprising amounts of activity. Some 700 newly-forming stars are estimated to be crowded into filaments of dust stretching ...


Miracle light: Can lasers solve the energy crisis?

Technology / Energy

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 4

Next year will mark the 50th birthday of the laser, one of the most productive and widely used mega-inventions of the last century. Scientists hope that 2010 also will see the launch of laser technology's greatest challenge: ...


A new kind of micro-mobility: Moving tiny particles using magnetic fields

A new kind of micro-mobility: Moving tiny particles using magnetic fields (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new microscopic system devised by researchers in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering could provide a novel method for moving tiny objects inside a microfluidic chip, and ...


An unusual light phenomenon above the Norwegian city of Skjeroy

New Russian missile failure sparks UFO frenzy

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 25

Russia's new nuclear-capable missile suffered another failed test launch, the defence ministry said Thursday, solving the mystery of a spectacular plume of white light that appeared over Norway.