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Newly Observed Properties of Vacuums: Light Particles Illuminate the Vacuum
February 26, 2013 — Researchers have succeeded in showing experimentally that vacuums have properties not previously observed. According to the laws of quantum mechanics, it is a state with abundant potentials. Vacuums ... > full story -
Is There a Neanderthal in the House?
February 17, 2013 — As we humans evolved over the millennia to walk on two legs, grow larger brains and shorter jaws, bear big babies and live longer, we’ve also experienced some negative consequences. But keeping ... > full story -
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Lead U.S. Science Team for Dark Energy Mission
February 12, 2013 — The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in their planned Euclid mission, including one team led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ... > full story -
Does Probability Come from Quantum Physics?
February 5, 2013 — Ever since Erwin Schrodinger put his unfortunate cat in a box, his fellow physicists have been using quantum theory to explain and understand the nature of waves and particles. But a new article ... > full story -
Hubble Catches the Moment the Lights Went out
February 5, 2013 — The further away you look, the further back in time you see. Astronomers use this fact to study the evolution of the Universe by looking at nearby and more distant galaxies and comparing their ... > full story -
Astronomers Ask 'Where Are All the Dwarf Galaxies?'
February 1, 2013 — Astronomers have identified “Cosmic Web Stripping” as a new way of explaining the famous missing dwarf problem: the lack of observed dwarf galaxies compared with that predicted by the ... > full story -
New Method of Measuring the Mass of Supermassive Black Holes
January 30, 2013 — Astronomers report the exciting discovery of a new way to measure the mass of supermassive black holes in galaxies. By measuring the speed with which carbon monoxide molecules orbit around such ... > full story -
Hubble Finds Appearances Can Be Deceptive: Looking at the Stars in NGC 411
January 26, 2013 — Globular clusters are roughly spherical collections of extremely old stars, and around 150 of them are scattered around our galaxy. Hubble is one of the best telescopes for studying these, as its ... > full story -
Red Explosions: Secret Life of Binary Stars Is Revealed
January 24, 2013 — An astrophysicist has revealed the workings of a celestial event involving binary stars that produce an explosion so powerful its luminosity ranks close to that of a supernova, an exploding ... > full story -
NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission
January 24, 2013 — NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark ... > full story
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