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Leading the quest to crack cosmological mysteries

Sometimes a scientist can only laugh in the face of a seemingly insurmountable challenge.

Physics / General Physics

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NASA to Probe the Universe's First Moments

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sophisticated new technologies created by NASA and university scientists are enabling them to build an instrument designed to probe the first moments of the universe's existence.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Super-Sensors to Measure 'Signature' of Inflationary Universe (w/Video)

What happened in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? Super-sensitive microwave detectors, built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, may soon ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (27) | comments 8

Cosmologists aim to observe first moments of universe

During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic density fluctuation in ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4




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Repulsive gravity as an alternative to dark energy (Part 2: In the quantum vacuum)

(PhysOrg.com) -- During the past few years, CERN physicist Dragan Hajdukovic has been investigating what he thinks may be a widely overlooked part of the cosmos: the quantum vacuum. He suggests that the quantum vacuum has ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (73) | comments 143 | with audio podcast report

Right-to-work has minimal impact on manufacturing

If the Indiana General Assembly passes a controversial right-to-work (RTW) bill currently being debated, no impact is likely for industrial composition, manufacturing income, employment or wages, says a Ball State University ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 17

Emergency medicine physicians develop device to stop lethal bleeding in soldiers

Two emergency medicine physicians with wartime experience have developed a weapon against one rapidly lethal war injury.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

A 40-year-old puzzle of superstring theory solved by supercomputer

A group of three researchers from KEK, Shizuoka University and Osaka University has for the first time revealed the way our universe was born with 3 spatial dimensions from 10-dimensional superstring theory in which spacetime ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (83) | comments 72 | with audio podcast

Nobel laureates receive 2011 prizes at Stockholm ceremony

The 2011 Nobel laureates in medicine, literature, economics, physics and chemistry received their prizes from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf at a gala ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday.

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA satellite could reveal if primordial black holes are dark matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- The primary objective of NASA’s Kepler satellite, which was launched in March 2009 to orbit the Sun, is to search for Earth-like planets in a portion of the Milky Way galaxy. But now ...

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created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 46 | with audio podcast feature

How smart managers make dumb decisions and why shareholders encourage them

From Enron in the United States to Satyam in India, there are plenty of examples of corporate managers lying about their companies' earnings and ultimately hurting themselves and the businesses they work for.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shedding new light on supernova mystery

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have a new theory on the mysterious mechanism that causes the explosion of massive, or core, stars. These ‘Type II supernovae’, the term given to exploding core stars, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Angry Birds Comes to Life on MIT Quad

Armed with catapults, giant crossbows, and bungee cords, eight teams of senior engineering students brought Angry Birds to life on the main quad of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The James Webb Telescope will see Earth-like worlds

The James Web Space Telescope has been in the news a lot lately.  Often referred to as the replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, its existence has been in jeopardy since a House committee voted ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 7


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