News tagged with gravity waves

Israeli astrophysicists say neutron star collisions can help detect gravity waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neutron stars are what’s left over from supernova explosions; so dense that protons and electrons are crushed together forming neutrons. The result is something relatively small in size, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 31 | with audio podcast report

Water waves exhibit negative gravity near a periodic array of buoys

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ocean waves can be incredibly strong and very difficult to block completely. When a wave moving across the ocean interacts with a buoy, the wave can be slightly dampened, but will still pass ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (21) | comments 17 | with audio podcast feature

Close lunar orbit causes high waves in Honduras

(AP) -- The Honduran government says unusually high waves almost 8 feet (2.4 meters) tall have destroyed more than a dozen food stalls and homes and a lot of palm trees on the country's Pacific Coast.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The mysterious rumble of thundersnow

NASA atmospheric scientists got an unexpected chance to study a curious phenomenon called "thundersnow" when a recent storm unleashed it right over their heads.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Researchers get close view of winter storm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Who would have guessed that the perfect place to gather detailed scientific data from a powerful snowstorm would be in Alabama?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Astronomers probe ancient radio waves for clues about the universe's first light

In the beginning, there was no light.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

How can we use neutrinos to probe dark matter in the Sun?

The existence of Dark Matter particles in the Sun's interior seems inevitable, despite dark matter never having been observed (there or elsewhere), despite intensive ongoing searches. Once gravitationally ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 12

Planck Mission: Space Probe Peers Into Dark Cosmos

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine watching the birth of the universe -- the Big Bang -- from the outside. What would you have seen?

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Quantum Sensor Developed by LSU Researcher Breaks New Limits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Louisiana State University have invented an optical sensor that surpasses a quantum limit to sensitivity previously believed to be unbeatable. The breakthrough has a broad array of applications, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Yellowstone's plumbing exposed

(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (49) | comments 18

Fermi Telescope Caps First Year With Glimpse of Space-Time (w/ Video)

During its first year of operations, NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope mapped the extreme sky with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. It captured more than one thousand discrete sources of gamma ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 5

A Theory of Dark Matter

Among the most astounding, unexpected, and important achievements of the past century (or even more) have been the discoveries of dark matter and dark energy, collectively dubbed the "dark sector."

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (44) | comments 58

Precise Radio-Telescope Measurements Advance Frontier Gravitational Physics

(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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 7

New Law of Physics Could Explain Quantum Mysteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the early days of quantum mechanics, scientists have been trying to understand the many strange implications of the theory: superpositions, wave-particle duality, and the observer’s ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (98) | comments 162 feature

QUIET team to deploy new gravity-wave probe in June

A tiny fraction of a second following the big bang, the universe allegedly experienced the most inflationary period it has ever known.

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 7