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CU-Boulder to build $6 million instrument for NASA lunar orbiter

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a $6 million grant from NASA to build a high-tech lunar dust detector for a 2011 mission to orbit the moon and conduct science investigations of the dusty lunar surface ...





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Highlight: Capturing quasiparticles

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A physics research team from the University of St Andrews and Cornell University in the USA has managed to 'photograph' the traces left by orbiting electrons in a special oxide material, and their observations ...


NASA Mission Gets Closer to Solving Magnetic Reconnection Mystery

NASA Mission Gets Closer to Solving Magnetic Reconnection Mystery (w/ Videos)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is designing a mission to investigate one of the most fundamental and explosive physical processes in the universe - magnetic reconnection. Known as the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) ...


Precise Radio-Telescope Measurements Advance Frontier Gravitational Physics

Precise Radio-Telescope Measurements Advance Frontier Gravitational Physics

Physics / General Physics

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

(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 ...


Taiwan has developed tiny microchips that could lead to lighter and cheaper laptops or mobile phones

Taiwan unveils super-tiny microchip

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Taiwan has developed tiny microchips that could lead to lighter and cheaper laptops or mobile phones, researchers and observers said Wednesday.


European astroparticle physicists to celebrate 100 years of cosmic ray experiments

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

From 10 to 17 October 2009, in France, Italy, Spain and many other countries, astroparticle physicists will meet the public to reveal some of the most exciting mysteries of the Universe. Within the first European Week of ...


New Law of Physics Could Explain Quantum Mysteries

New Law of Physics Could Explain Quantum Mysteries

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (98) | comments 163

(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 ...


Research looks at how light and matter behave around black holes, other celestial objects

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Dr. Dentcho Genov, an assistant professor of physics and electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University and a Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) Institute fellow, is featured in the most recent issue of Nature Ph ...


Scientists explain mystery of observed turbulent density fluctuations in interplanetary space

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville have developed a three-dimensional simulation model to understand behavior of interplanetary charged particles in space.


Louisiana Tech professor's 'metamaterials' research lands cover of international journal

'Metamaterials' used to look at effects of black holes, other celestial objects

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Dentcho Genov, an assistant professor of physics and electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University and a Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) Institute fellow, is featured ...


Shuttle astronauts prepare for Texas homecoming (AP)

Space Shuttle Discovery Returns to Earth After Successful Mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven astronauts ended a 14-day journey of more than 5.7 million miles with an 5:53 p.m. PDT landing Friday at Edwards Air Force Base in California.



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