The new software package accurately simulates the physics of radiation particles passing through spacecraft walls and human bodies. Such techniques will be…
The 20-tonne European resupply and space-tug module will be carried into orbit by a special version of the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. The launcher, operated by…
In parallel, another international team has analyzed with new techniques the last data obtained by the WMAP satellite and found a topological signal…
The concentration of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) and metal nanoparticles can be easily varied within the shaped carbonaceous solid. Carbon nanotube…
If drums of different shapes always produce their own unique sound spectrum, then it should be possible to identify the shape of a specific drum merely by…
Scientists hope that a new supercomputer being built by Syracuse University's Department of Physics may help them identify the sound of a celestial black hole.The supercomputer, dubbed SUGAR (SU Gravitational and Relativity Cluster), will soon receive massive amounts of data from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that was collected over a two-year period at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). LIGO is funded by the National Science Foundation and operated by Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. …
Like two ballroom dancers waltzing together, the two atoms of an oxygen molecule severed by a metal catalyst usually behave identically. But new research…
Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1% precision level, the distance of a…
In a total lunar eclipse, the Earth, Sun and Moon are almost exactly in line and the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. The Moon is full,…
The physicists performing the study used a small nuclear reactor used exclusively for research purposes at the University of Pavia, applying techniques that…
The Southampton Transient Oxygen and Radiation Monitor (STORM) instrument is destined for the International Space Station where it will be used in an…
Herschel’s telescope, which will carry the largest mirror ever flown in space, has just been delivered to ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre,…
The holographic displays – which are viewed without special eyewear – are the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory ever to be developed,…
The research shows that these T-rays, electromagnetic waves in the far infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum that have a wavelength 500 times longer…
As its frequency is higher than that of the microwave oscillations of the cesium atomic clocks, physicists expect another increase in the accuracy, stability…
In visible light NGC 1132 appears as a single, isolated, giant elliptical galaxy, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Scientists have found that NGC 1132…
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