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, ...
Sep 29, 2011 |
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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 ...
May 09, 2011 |
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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.
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Mar 25, 2011 |
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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.
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Feb 25, 2011 |
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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?
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Jan 31, 2011 |
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Astronomers probe ancient radio waves for clues about the universe's first light
In the beginning, there was no light.
Jan 13, 2011 |
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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 ...
Sep 09, 2010 |
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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?
Jun 10, 2010 |
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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, ...
Mar 16, 2010 |
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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
Dec 14, 2009 |
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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 ...
Oct 28, 2009 |
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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."
Sep 08, 2009 |
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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 ...
Sep 01, 2009 |
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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 ...
Aug 17, 2009 |
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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.
May 15, 2009 |
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