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The effect of gamma waves on cognitive and language skills in children

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 2

New studies conducted by April Benasich, professor of neuroscience at Rutgers University in Newark, and her colleagues reveal that gamma wave activity in the brains of children provide a window into their cognitive development, ...





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NASA's Fermi telescope unveils a dozen new pulsars

Fermi telescope unveils a dozen new pulsars

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others. The finds are transforming our understanding of how these ...


Fermi Large Area Telescope Reveals Pulsing Gamma-Ray Sources

Fermi Large Area Telescope Reveals Pulsing Gamma-Ray Sources

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created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Space Science Division and a team of international researchers have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through the discovery ...


Fermi Telescope reveals a population of radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars

Fermi Telescope reveals a population of radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new class of pulsars detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is solving the mystery of previously unidentified gamma-ray sources and helping scientists understand the mechanisms ...


VLBA locates superenergetic bursts near giant black hole

VLBA locates superenergetic bursts near giant black hole

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a worldwide combination of diverse telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a giant galaxy's bursts of very high energy gamma rays are coming from a region very close to the supermassive ...


Fermi Large Area Telescope reveals pulsing gamma-ray sources

Fermi Large Area Telescope reveals pulsing gamma-ray sources

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created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 9

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division and a team of international researchers have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through the discovery of 16 ...


Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking Explosion

Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking Explosion

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 11, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (42) | comments 1

Researchers working at the University of Warwick, with colleagues in Leicester University, ESA and NASA, have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to pin point what remains of what was the brightest naked-eye ...


Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Sees Most Extreme Gamma-Ray Blast Ever

Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Sees Most Extreme Gamma-Ray Blast Ever

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the greatest total energy, the fastest motions, and the highest-energy initial emissions ever before seen, a gamma-ray burst recently observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is ...


Swift, Fermi probe fireworks from a flaring gamma-ray star

Swift, Fermi probe fireworks from a flaring gamma-ray star (Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from ...


The Oddball Hosts of Gamma-ray Bursts

The Oddball Hosts of Gamma-ray Bursts

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 2

There's a universal tendency to heed Dylan Thomas's exhortation and go out with a bang instead of a whimper. Nowhere is this more evident than deep in the cosmos.


First gamma-ray-only pulsar observation opens new window on stellar evolution

First gamma-ray-only pulsar observation opens new window on stellar evolution

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created Oct 16, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 4

About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. This object, known as a pulsar, is the first one known to "blink" only in gamma rays, and was discovered ...



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