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Possible Fifth Force Would Make Direct Detection of Dark Matter Unlikely

Possible Fifth Force Would Make Direct Detection of Dark Matter Unlikely

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (41) | comments 52 feature

(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

New detector will aid dark matter search

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (40) | comments 19

(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 ...


Hubble and Chandra Composite of the Galaxy Custer MACS J0025.4-1222

A clash of clusters provides another clue to dark matter

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 39

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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Rho Ophiuchus cloud

Professor: We have a 'moral obligation' to seed universe with life

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 10 hours ago | popularity 3.7 / 5 (19) | comments 31 | with audio podcast report

(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 (AP)

Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons

Space & Earth / Environment

created 11 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(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

The Shoulders of Giants

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

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.


International Space Station

Node-3 and Cupola: European technology to complete the ISS

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(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

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

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

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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 ...


Energy teleportation

Physicist proposes method to teleport energy

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (56) | comments 53 | with audio podcast weblog

(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: Stanford finds a new use for cloth

Conductive eTextiles: Researchers move from making batteries from paper to making batteries from cloth

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

(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 collisions

Record-breaking LHC collisions offer first glimpse of physics at new energy frontier

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (39) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

(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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