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Magnetic Trapping Will Help Unlock the Secrets of Anti-Matter
November 18, 2010 A clearer understanding of the Universe, its origins and maybe even its destiny is a significant step closer, thanks to new research. As part of a major international experiment called ALPHA, based ... > full story -
Enigma of Missing Stars in Local Group of Galaxies May Be Solved
November 18, 2010 In the local group of galaxies that includes the Andromeda Nebula and our Milky Way, there are about 100 billion stars. According to astronomers' calculations, there should be many more. Now, ... > full story -
Artificial Black Holes Made With Metamaterials: Design for Human-Made Light Trapping Device Could Help Harvest Light for Solar Cells
November 16, 2010 While our direct knowledge of black holes in the universe is limited to what we can observe from thousands or millions of light years away, a team of Chinese physicists has proposed a simple way to ... > full story -
NASA's Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole
November 15, 2010 Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighborhood. The 30-year-old black hole provides a unique opportunity ... > full story -
Detailed Dark Matter Map Yields Clues to Galaxy Cluster Growth
November 11, 2010 Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a giant cosmic magnifying glass to create one of the sharpest and most detailed maps of dark matter in the universe. Dark matter is ... > full story -
Atoms-for-Peace: A Galactic Collision in Action
November 10, 2010 European Southern Observatory astronomers have produced a spectacular new image of the famous Atoms-for-Peace galaxy. This galactic pile-up, formed by the collision of two galaxies, provides an ... > full story -
CERN Completes Transition to Lead-Ion Running at the Large Hadron Collider
November 9, 2010 Four days is all it took for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operations team at CERN to complete the transition from protons to lead ions in the LHC. After extracting the final proton beam of 2010 on ... > full story -
Large Hadron Collider Throws Lead
November 4, 2010 The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland, enters a new phase of operations Nov. 4. Scientists will stop running streams of protons ... > full story -
Close-Up of Hidden Galaxies With New Cosmic Zoom Lenses
November 8, 2010 Astronomers have discovered a new way of locating a natural phenomenon that acts like a zoom lens and allows astronomers to peer at galaxies in the distant and early Universe. These results are from ... > full story -
The Large Hadron Collider Enters a New Phase
November 4, 2010 Proton running for 2010 in the LHC at CERN came to a successful conclusion on November 4. Since the end of March, when the first collisions occurred at a total energy of 7 TeV, the machine and ... > full story
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