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Physicists Consider Their Own Carbon Footprint
September 29, 2011 — An astrophysicist calls on physicists to pull their weight when it comes to climate change, drawing on his own research showing that astronomers average 23,000 air miles per year flying to ... > full story -
Scientists Release Most Accurate Simulation of the Universe to Date
September 29, 2011 — The Bolshoi supercomputer simulation, the most accurate and detailed large cosmological simulation run to date, gives physicists and astronomers a powerful new tool for understanding such cosmic ... > full story -
CERN Sets Course for Extra-Low-Energy Antiprotons
September 28, 2011 — The kick-off meeting for ELENA, the Extra Low Energy Antiproton Ring, has begun at CERN . Approved by CERN Council in June this year, ELENA is scheduled to deliver its first antiprotons in ... > full story -
Light from Galaxy Clusters Confirms General Theory of Relativity
September 28, 2011 — All observations in astronomy are based on light (electromagnetic radiation) emitted from stars and galaxies and, according to the general theory of relativity, the light will be affected by gravity. ... > full story -
Could the Higgs Boson Explain the Size of the Universe?
September 21, 2011 — The race to identify the Higgs boson is on at CERN. This Holy Grail of particle physics would help explain why the majority of elementary particles possess mass. The mysterious particle would also ... > full story -
Tests Under Way on the Sunshield for NASA's Webb Telescope
September 19, 2011 — NASA is testing an element of the sunshield that will protect the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors and instruments during its mission to observe the most distant objects in the universe. The ... > full story -
Black Hole, Star Collisions May Illuminate Universe's Dark Side
September 19, 2011 — Researchers have unveiled a ready-made method for detecting the collision of stars with an elusive type of black hole that is on the short list of objects believed to make up dark matter. Such a ... > full story -
Gamma-Ray Bursts Shed Light on the Nature of Dark Energy
September 16, 2011 — Dark energy is the basic constituent of the today's Universe, one that is responsible for its accelerated expansion. Although astronomers observe the cosmological effects of the impact of dark ... > full story -
Small Distant Galaxies Host Supermassive Black Holes, Astronomers Find
September 15, 2011 — Using the Hubble Space Telescope to probe the distant universe, astronomers have found supermassive black holes growing in surprisingly small galaxies. The findings suggest that central black holes ... > full story -
Discovering the Hidden Universe: TheSkyNet Launched
September 14, 2011 — A community computing science initiative to help discover the hidden Universe was officially launched September ... > full story
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