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Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole

Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image of data from three different telescopes shows an ongoing collision between two galaxies, NGC 6872 and IC 4970.


City Tech physicist thinks small and big with CERN Large Hadron Collider research

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New York City College of Technology Physics Professor Giovanni Ossola thinks both small and big. He is currently developing a new tool that will lead to more precise computations involving the actions of particles (the smallest ...


I see your pain

I see your pain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- How can some sportsmen and women, in the heat of the moment, play on through pain that would floor anyone else? Bert Trautmann, the Manchester City goalkeeper, famously played on through to ...


Aviation-based team training may influence clinicians' safety behaviors

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Team training based on protocols originally developed for aviation crews may change safety-related behaviors and contribute to perceptions of empowerment among nurses and other surgical staff, according to a report in the ...


Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light

Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, ...


Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 29

(PhysOrg.com) -- New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component ...


An Advance in Superconducting Magnet Technology Opens the Door for More Powerful Colliders

An Advance in Superconducting Magnet Technology Opens the Door for More Powerful Colliders

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Preparing for as much as a 10-fold increase in the Large Hadron Collider's luminosity within the next decade, U.S. scientists and engineers have demonstrated a powerful magnet based on an ...


Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin rain of charged particles continually bombards our atmosphere from outer space. The mysterious particles were first detected 100 years ago but until 10 years ago when a new type of ...


The LHC tunnel

Large Hadron Collider preparing 2010 new science restart

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 3

At its 153rd session today, the CERN Council heard that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ended its first full period of operation in style on Wednesday 16 December. Collisions at 2.36TeV recorded since last ...


New study finds gender divide in children's use of cell phone features (w/ Video)

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

It's a given that many children will ask their parents for cell phones this Christmas. Now, a recent study by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) sociologist Shelia Cotten, Ph.D., finds that the way the kids will use ...



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