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NASA Sees Orbiting Stars Flooding Space With Gravitational Waves
June 1, 2005 — A scientist using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found evidence that two white dwarf stars are orbiting each other in a death grip, destined to merge. The data indicate that gravitational waves ... > full story -
Photoemission 100 Years After Einstein
April 30, 2005 — In 1921 Einstein won the Nobel Prize not for his work on relativity, but for solving a puzzle that had baffled scientists since 1887 -- the photoelectric effect. Today (Friday 29th April 2005) New ... > full story -
Observing Einstein's Gravitational Waves
April 19, 2005 — A hundred years ago, Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity. The joint ESA-NASA "LISA" mission hopes to detect gravitational waves in space. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna ... > full story -
Now Scientists Think You'd Be 'Roasted' In A Black Hole
April 19, 2005 — Contrary to established scientific thinking, you'd be roasted and not "spaghettified" if you stumbled into a supermassive black hole. New research being presented at the Institute of Physics ... > full story -
What Is Time?
April 15, 2005 — The concept of time is self-evident. An hour consists of a certain number of minutes, a day of hours and a year of days. But we rarely think about the fundamental nature of time, says one ... > full story -
Exotic Physics Finds Black Holes Could Be Most 'Perfect,' Low-Viscosity Fluid
March 25, 2005 — In three spatial dimensions, it is a close relative of the quark-gluon plasma, the super-hot state of matter that hasn't existed since the tiniest fraction of a second after the big bang that ... > full story -
Italian, US Cosmologists Present Explanation For Accelerating Expansion Of The Universe
March 25, 2005 — Why is the universe expanding at an accelerating rate, spreading its contents over ever greater dimensions of space? An original solution to this puzzle, certainly the most fascinating question in ... > full story -
Light May Arise From Relativity Violations
March 22, 2005 — Light as we know it may be a direct result of small violations of relativity, according to new research scheduled for publication online Tuesday (March 22) in the journal Physical Review ... > full story -
Moonbeams Shine On Einstein, Galileo And Newton
March 7, 2005 — Thirty-five years after Moon-walking astronauts placed special reflectors on the lunar surface, scientists have used these devices to test Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity to ... > full story -
NYU's Dvali Says Change In Laws Of Gravity, Not 'Dark Energy,' Source Of Cosmic Acceleration
February 23, 2005 — New York University physicist Georgi Dvali concludes that the cosmic acceleration of the universe may be caused by the modification of standard laws of gravity at very large distances, and not by ... > full story
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