News tagged with ordinary matter
Possible Fifth Force Would Make Direct Detection of Dark Matter Unlikely
Mar 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- No one knows exactly what a “fifth force” might be, but studies have shown that, if a long-range fifth force does exist, it could have surprising effects on the universe’s structure formation. ...
New detector will aid dark matter search
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Several research projects are underway to try to detect particles that may make up the mysterious “dark matter” believed to dominate the universe’s mass. But the existing detectors have a ...
A clash of clusters provides another clue to dark matter
Aug 27, 2008 |
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New Hubble and Chandra observations of the cluster known as MACSJ0025.4-1222 indicate that a titanic collision has separated dark from ordinary matter. This provides independent confirmation of a similar effect ...
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Professor: We have a 'moral obligation' to seed universe with life
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Eventually, the day will come when life on Earth ends. Whether that’s tomorrow or five billion years from now, whether by nuclear war, climate change, or the Sun burning up its fuel, the last ...
Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons
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(AP) -- Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions ...
The Shoulders of Giants
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 08, 2010 |
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America’s ambition to explore space has not come without a human cost. The decisions being made today about our future in space depend on lessons learned from past tragedies.
Node-3 and Cupola: European technology to complete the ISS
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 08, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched at 10:14:08 CET today and is heading for the International Space Station carrying two sophisticated European modules: Node-3 (Tranquility) and Cupola. ...
Virus-free technique enables scientists to easily make stem cells pluripotent
Feb 07, 2010 |
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Tiny circles of DNA are the key to a new and easier way to transform stem cells from human fat into induced pluripotent stem cells for use in regenerative medicine, say scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine. ...
Space Station Primed for New Era of Scientific Discoveries
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 05, 2010 |
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NASA is looking forward to unprecedented scientific opportunities aboard the International Space Station. With station assembly nearing completion, the ISS Partnership is looking forward to using the station to its fullest ...
Blacks with MS have more severe symptoms, decline faster than whites
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 05, 2010 |
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Fewer African Americans than Caucasians develop multiple sclerosis (MS), statistics show, but their disease progresses more rapidly, and they don't respond as well to therapies, a new study by neurology researchers at the ...
Physicist proposes method to teleport energy
Feb 05, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the same quantum principles that enable the teleportation of information, a new proposal shows how it may be possible to teleport energy. By exploiting the quantum energy fluctuations ...
Conductive eTextiles: Researchers move from making batteries from paper to making batteries from cloth
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 05, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have moved from making batteries from paper to making batteries from cloth. Your-T-shirt could become a lighted, moving display.
Record-breaking LHC collisions offer first glimpse of physics at new energy frontier
Feb 05, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world?s largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions.
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