Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Water, Blood, Wind, Movies, Robots, and Coffee Rings: Highlights of APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting

Many of nature's most fascinating phenomena involve various forms of fluid flow, and scientists who study fluid dynamics investigate everything from the way…

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Exploring Nanotechnology Oversight: Voluntary Initiatives and Regulation

A new report from the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars explores a variety of voluntary…

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New Physics Experiment Hints at Unseen Particle Discovery

The new results go further to describe a violation of a fundamental symmetry of the universe asserting that particles of antimatter behave in the same way as…

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Webb Supercomputer Models Offer Sneak Previews of Space Discoveries

“It's an interesting problem,” said Jonathan Gardner, the project's deputy senior project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md….

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Cosmic Curiosity: Dead Quasar’s Ghostly Glow Revealed

Two years later, a team led by Yale University researchers has discovered that the unique object represents a snapshot in time that reveals surprising clues…

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Earth’s Night Sky: Possible Alien Meteor Shower Unveiled

NASA meteor experts had predicted it was a long shot, but the evenings of November 2nd and 3rd might display a meteor shower from dust which puffed off this…

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Function Analysis Fuels New Mars Rover Concept Development

Humans have walked on the Moon, and inevitably, according to NASA, humans will tread the Red Planet as well, possibly by 2037.An ergonomist and an industrial…

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Rutgers, Chilean astrophysicists discover new galaxy clusters revealed by cosmic 'shadows'

An international team of scientists led by Rutgers University astrophysicists have discovered 10 new massive galaxy clusters from a large, uniform survey of…

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NYU Researchers Create Algebraic Model for Cellular Monitoring

Their work, which is described in the journal Physical Review E, provides an additional tool for understanding how biological systems function and could…

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Mars Gullies Linked to Carbon Dioxide by UA HiRISE Camera

A growing bounty of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals that the timing of new activity in a type of gully on Mars implicates carbon dioxide…

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New Spacecraft Set to Explore Moon and Earth’s Environment

One of these satellites has been in the lunar environment since Aug. 25, and the second arrived Oct. 22, marking the start of the ARTEMIS mission to gather new…

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Developing Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced GIS Software

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software has been widely used for spatial problem solving and decision making applications since the 1960s. It has become…

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NASA’s Kepler Mission Changing How Astronomers Study Distant Stars

“It’s really amazing,” said Kawaler, an Iowa State professor of physics and astronomy. “It’s as amazing as I feared. I didn’t appreciate how hard it is to…

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THEMIS Probes Redirected to Moon for Magnetosphere Study

Two micro-satellites originally launched into Earth's orbit in 2007 by NASA have been redirected by University of California, Berkeley, scientists toward new…

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NIST Launches First Programmable AC/DC 10-Volt Standard

The new 10-volt system* builds on a number of previous NIST inventions, from the initial 1-volt standard in 1984 through the 2006 unveiling of the world's…

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Introducing the 'A-Train'

The formation of satellites — which currently includes Aqua, CloudSat, Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) and Aura…

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