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The day the universe froze

The day the universe froze: New dark energy model includes cosmological phase transition

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (23) | comments 16

Imagine a time when the entire universe froze. According to a new model for dark energy, that is essentially what happened about 11.5 billion years ago, when the universe was a quarter of the size it is today.


Tackling the big questions -- approaching a revolution in our understanding of gravity

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (46) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- The way galaxies move through the cosmos has recently begun to baffle scientists. Even when the gravitational theories of Newton and Einstein are taken into account, the universe is expanding and galaxies ...





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Nanotech in Space: Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

Nanotech in Space: Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer were sent into orbit on Nov. 16 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.


Crashing the size barrier

Crashing the size barrier

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 6

Like surfers on monster waves, electrons can ride waves of plasma to very high energies in a very short distance. Scientists have proven that plasma acceleration works. Now they're developing it as a way to ...


Nanotech in Space: Rensselaer Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

Nanotech in Space: Rensselaer Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are scheduled to blast off into orbit on November 16 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.


Danish nanowires have great potential

Danish nanowires have great potential

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research - nanowires. The discovery has great potential for the development of nanoelectronics and highly ...


Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this round

Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this round

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (35) | comments 62

Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The dead-heat finish ...


Fermi telescope caps its first year with a glimpse of space-time

Fermi Telescope Caps First Year With Glimpse of Space-Time (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 5

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 ...


FASTSAT instruments shipped to NASA Marshall for tests and launch preparation

FASTSAT instruments shipped for tests and launch preparation

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Three of the satellite instruments that will fly on an upcoming satellite mission called "FASTSAT" have been created at one NASA center and have arrived at another for more tests to ensure they are flight ...


Cooking Up Water From the Moon? NASA Studies Water Extraction With Microwaves

Cooking Up Water From the Moon? NASA Studies Water Extraction With Microwaves

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intrigued by NASA lunar missions in the 1990s which suggested the existence of ice within craters at the moon's poles, NASA scientist Dr. Edwin Ethridge and his team started cooking up a way ...


New designs for smarter buildings

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

After two years of design, experimentation, fund-raising and building, the University of Arizona's Solar Decathlon team has completed construction of its 800-square-foot solar-powered house on the National Mall in Washington, ...


Prostate cancer gives a new outlook on life

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Men who have prostate cancer often feel quite healthy, but the diagnosis still gives them a whole new outlook on life. Once they have learned to live with their cancer, they choose to focus on valuable relationships and appreciate ...



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