• "90% of Distant Galaxies in Universe Undetected" --(2012 Most Popular)

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    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Advanced ET Technology May Exist on a Third Level' Beyond Matter 2012 Most Popular Main December 31, 2012 90 of Distant Galaxies in Universe Undetected 2012 Most Popular The European Space Agency s Herschel space telescope has discovered that previously unseen distant galaxies are responsible for a cosmic fog of infrared radiation The galaxies are some of the faintest and furthest objects seen by Herschel , and open a new window on the birth of stars in the early Universe . Astronomers estimate that there are billions and billions of galaxies in the observable universe as well as some seven trillion dwarf galaxies ESA astronomers say that for every ten far galaxies observed , a hundred go . undetected

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Great Lakes of Titan

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  • "Advanced ET Technology May Exist on a 'Third Level' Beyond Matter" (2012 Most Popular)

    Updated: 2012-12-30 23:03:14
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy DNA Nucleotides Were Present Before Origin of Life Holiday Feature Main December 30, 2012 Advanced ET Technology May Exist on a Third Level' Beyond Matter 2012 Most Popular World renowned experts from physicist  Sir Martin Rees of  Cambridge University to astrobiologist Paul Davis of  Arizona State have asked that if we were to encounter alien technology far superior to our own , would we even realize what it was . A technology a million or more years in advance of ours would appear . miraculous In fact , Davies writes in his book , 0160 Eerie , Silence that advanced technology might not even be made of matter . That it might have no fixed size or shape have no well-defined boundaries . Is dynamical on

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Hidden Flames

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  • "Pillars of Creation" --A Galactic Artifact Vaporized by a Supernova Explosion 6,000 Years Ago ('2012 Most Popular')

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    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy No Jupiter , No Advanced Life 2012 Most Popular' Main DNA Nucleotides Were Present Before Origin of Life Holiday Feature December 30, 2012 Pillars of Creation A Galactic Artifact Vaporized by a Supernova Explosion 6,000 Years Ago 2012 Most Popular' In early 2007, scientists using the Spitzer discovered evidence that potentially indicates the famed three Pillars of Creation photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 in the Eagle Nebula were destroyed by a nearby supernova explosion about 6,000 years ago , but the light showing the new shape of the nebula will not reach Earth for another thousand . years A new , striking image from Spitzer shows the intact dust towers next to a giant cloud of

  • Colossal Black Hole Equal to 17 Billion Suns Discovered ('2012 Most Popular')

    Updated: 2012-12-29 17:28:52
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy The Primordial Star at the Edge of the Milky Way that Shouldn't Exist Challenges Theories of Star Formation Main No Jupiter , No Advanced Life 2012 Most Popular' December 29, 2012 Colossal Black Hole Equal to 17 Billion Suns Discovered 2012 Most Popular' A group of astronomers led by Remco van den Bosch from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy MPIA have discovered a  black hole that could shake the foundations of current models of  galaxy evolution The Hubble image above shows the small , flattened  disk galaxy NGC 1277, which contains one of the biggest central  super-massive black holes ever found in its center . With the mass of 17 billion Suns , the black hole weighs in at an extraordinary 14 of

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Tri-Color Sun

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  • The first International Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Physics (IWTCP-1): Condensed Matter, Soft Matter and Materials Physics

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    Workshop: 30 Jul 2013 - 2 Aug 2013, Da Nang, Viet Nam. Organized by The Center for Theoretical Physics, IOP-VAST; Vietnamese Theoretical Physics Society.

  • International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems (OECS13)

    Updated: 2012-12-29 00:00:00
    Conference: 9 Sep 2013 - 13 Sep 2013, Rome, Italy.

  • Top 10 space stories of 2012 Astronomy Magazine

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  • Southampton researchers find a “glitch” in pulsar “glitch” theory Astronomy Magazine

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  • Southampton researchers find a “glitch” in pulsar “glitch” theory Astronomy Magazine

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  • The Primordial Star at the Edge of the Milky Way that Shouldn't Exist --Challenges Theories of Star Formation

    Updated: 2012-12-28 22:58:47
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy The Antimatter Supernova One of the Largest Cosmic Explosions Ever Recorded Main December 28, 2012 The Primordial Star at the Edge of the Milky Way that Shouldn't Exist Challenges Theories of Star Formation A primordial star at the outer edges of our  Milky Way galaxy upsets current theories of star formation in the universe . The star simply shouldn't exist since it lacks the materials astronomers have long thought necessary for low-mass stars to form , scientists say . 0160 When  Lorenzo Monaco of the  European Southern Observatory in Chile and colleagues examined the elemental composition of the oddball star , prosaically named  SDSS J102915+172927 image below they discovered that it has a mass

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Galaxy Hides Black Hole

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  • "The Antimatter Supernova" --One of the Largest Cosmic Explosions Ever Recorded

    Updated: 2012-12-28 16:30:49
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy December 27, 2004 The Day Planet Earth Survived Its Greatest Space-Ray Attack Main The Primordial Star at the Edge of the Milky Way that Shouldn't Exist Challenges Theories of Star Formation December 28, 2012 The Antimatter Supernova One of the Largest Cosmic Explosions Ever Recorded In 2007, a supergiant star two hundred times bigger than the sun was utterly obliterated by runaway thermonuclear reactions triggered by gamma ray driven antimatter production . The resulting blast was visible for months because it unleashed a cloud of radioactive material over fifty times the size of our own star , giving off a nuclear fission glow visible from galaxies away . SN 2007bi was discovered by the international

  • A panoramic loop in Cygnus Astronomy Magazine

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  • A panoramic loop in Cygnus Astronomy Magazine

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  • Join us in Tucson for a day filled with astronomy Local Group Astronomy Astronomy Community

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  • Don Parker’s Christmas Jupiter Dave's Universe Astronomy Astronomy Community

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  • Orion†s Belt open cluster M35, and the Christmas Tree Cluster NGC 2264 Astronomy Magazine

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  • Breaking of supersymmetry and Ultraviolet Divergences in extended Supergravity (BUDS)

    Updated: 2012-12-28 00:00:00
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  • Meteors will light up the winter sky Astronomy Magazine

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  • WMAP releases final results on the infant universe Astronomy Magazine

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  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Really Hot Stars

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  • Measurement and calibration of noise bias in weak lensing galaxy shape estimation

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 427, Number 4 Measurement and calibration of noise bias in weak lensing galaxy shape estimation Authors : Kacprzak , Tomasz Zuntz , Joe Rowe , Barnaby Bridle , Sarah Refregier , Alexandre Amara , Adam Voigt , Lisa Hirsch , Michael : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 427, Number 4, 21 December 2012 pp . 2711-2722(12 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy :

  • ALFALFA Hsci/sc data stacking III. Comparison of environmental trends in Hsci/sc gas mass fraction and specific star formation rate

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    . . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 427, Number 4 ALFALFA H Authors : Fabello , Silvia Kauffmann , Guinevere Catinella , Barbara Li , Cheng Giovanelli , Riccardo Haynes , Martha . P : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 427, Number 4, 21 December 2012 pp . 2841-2851(11 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract It is well known that both the star formation rate and the cold gas

  • An optimal estimator for the CMBLSS angular power spectrum and its application to iWMAP/i and NVSS data

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  • Newtonian acceleration scales in spiral galaxies

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 427, Number 4 Newtonian acceleration scales in spiral galaxies Authors : Cardone , V . F . Del Popolo , . A : Source Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Volume 427, Number 4, 21 December 2012 pp . 3176-3187(12 Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 48.00 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We revisit the issue of the constancy of the dark matter DM and baryonic Newtonian acceleration scales within the

  • One vertex spin-foams with the dipole cosmology boundary

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  • Can gravitation accelerate neutrinos?

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 30, Number 2 Can gravitation accelerate neutrinos Authors : Hojman , Sergio A . Asenjo , Felipe . A : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 30, Number 2, 21 January 2013 pp . 25008-25017(10 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 46.17 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract The Lagrangian equations of motion for massive spinning test particles tops moving on a gravitational background using general relativity are presented . The

  • Spherically symmetric gravity coupled to a scalar field with a local Hamiltonian: the complete initial-boundary value problem using metric variables

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    . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 30, Number 2 Spherically symmetric gravity coupled to a scalar field with a local Hamiltonian : the complete initial-boundary value problem using metric variables Authors : Gambini , Rodolfo Pullin , Jorge : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 30, Number 2, 21 January 2013 pp . 25012-25018(7 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 46.17 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We discuss a gauge fixing of gravity coupled to a

  • Scaling up the extrinsic curvature in asymptotically flat gravitational initial data: generating trapped surfaces

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    . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 30, Number 2 Scaling up the extrinsic curvature in asymptotically flat gravitational initial data : generating trapped surfaces Authors : Bai , Shan Murchadha , Niall Ó : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 30, Number 2, 21 January 2013 pp . 25013-25021(9 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 46.17 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract The existence of the initial value constraints means that specifying initial data for the

  • Connecting the cosmic web to the spin of dark haloes: implications for galaxy formation

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  • The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations in the Data Release 9 spectroscopic galaxy sample

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  • Erratum: A new method to detect solar-like oscillations at very low S/N using statistical significance testing

    Updated: 2012-12-26 07:16:28
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  • "Some Regions of the Universe are Not Favorable for Life"

    Updated: 2012-12-25 15:10:24
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Holiday Weekend Image : A Spectacular Masar Main December 24, 2012 Some Regions of the Universe are Not Favorable for Life Holiday Weekend Feature The answer may be that other regions of the Universe are not quite so favorable for life as we know it , and that the laws of physics we measure in our part of the Universe are merely local by-laws' , in which case it is no particular surprise to find life here , quot says John Webb of the University of New South . Wales  One of the most cherished principles in science the constancy of physics may not be true , according to research carried out at the University of New South Wales UNSW Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Cambridge in

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Merry Radio Christmas

    Updated: 2012-12-25 11:30:15
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  • Comment of the Day: Advanced ET Civilizations May Be Impossible to Detect (Holiday Weekend Feature)

    Updated: 2012-12-23 14:00:00
    : : The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Supermassive Black Holes Are They Exit Doors from Our Universe Weekend Feature Main Advanced ET Civilizations May Be Impossible to Detect Holiday Weekend Feature December 23, 2012 Comment of the Day : Advanced ET Civilizations May Be Impossible to Detect Holiday Weekend Feature Even if there is only 1 intelligent civilization per galaxy where you have over 100 billion stars per galaxy with some galaxies sporting nearer to a trillion stars . There are over 100 billion galaxies in the visible universe maybe more . So even assuming you have only 1 species per galaxy , that's still 100 billion x 100 billion possible life sustaining solar systems . Which is probably a small estimate . We know that the

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Hourglass Nebula

    Updated: 2012-12-23 11:30:32
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  • 33rd. International Cosmic Ray Conference

    Updated: 2012-12-23 00:00:00
    Conference: 2 Jul 2013 - 9 Jul 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  • The week in pictures December 15–21, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

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  • The week in pictures December 15–21, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

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  • February 2013 When stars go bang Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-12-22 23:40:25
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  • Supermassive Black Holes --Are They "Exit Doors from Our Universe"? (Weekend Feature)

    Updated: 2012-12-22 16:00:32
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy We're on the Threshold of Unraveling the Biggest Mystery in Modern Physics World's Dark-Matter Cosmologists Main December 22, 2012 Supermassive Black Holes Are They Exit Doors from Our Universe Weekend Feature Earlier this fall , an international team , led by researchers at MIT’s  Haystack Observatory measured the radius of a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy the closest distance at which matter can approach before being irretrievably pulled into a black hole , which can be billions of times more massive than our sun may reside at the heart of most galaxies . Such supermassive black holes are so powerful that activity at their boundaries can ripple throughout their host . galaxies The

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Canyon Details on Mars

    Updated: 2012-12-22 11:30:38
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  • MECO38, Trieste, Italy from 25 to 27 March 2013

    Updated: 2012-12-22 00:00:00
    Conference: 25 Mar 2013 - 27 Mar 2013, Trieste, Italy. Organized by A.Gambassi, M.Marsili, M.Mueller and A.Scardicchio.

  • Erika Rix's Astro Sketching Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-12-21 20:33:39
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  • English Astronomers Sirs Halley Harrison Herschel and Wren Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-12-21 20:33:37
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  • Worlds on fire Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-12-21 20:33:30
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  • A vast variety of supernova remnants Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-12-21 20:33:26
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  • Discover more about the Orion Nebula Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-12-21 20:33:21
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  • Listen to Sheldon Reynolds on life in the universe Dave's Universe Astronomy Astronomy Community

    Updated: 2012-12-21 20:33:16
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  • Listen to Sheldon Reynolds on life in the universe Dave's Universe Astronomy Astronomy Community

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  • Guest blog Dean Regas on the world’s end Dave's Universe Astronomy Astronomy Community

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  • Guest blog Dean Regas on the world’s end Dave's Universe Astronomy Astronomy Community

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  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Star Making Waves

    Updated: 2012-12-21 18:07:54
    WIRED Gear Gadget Lab Year in Apps : The Biggest Hits , Misses and Absolute Fails of 2013 Facebook Shares Fall Briefly Amid Report of Instagram Quitters Wired’ s Great In-Flight Wi-Fi Speed Test Autopia Crowdsourced BMW Prototypes Light the Street , Call for Help Bridge Design Defect Drops Ice on Canadian Motorists Bluetooth Tracking Can Predict the Length of Your Commute Hell Reviews Spin Art Earphones Made for the Dancefloor Mojitos in the Mist Science Science Wired Science Space Photo of the Day : Great Lakes of Titan Wired Science’s Top Image Galleries of the Year Wired Science Space Photo of the Day : Hidden Flames Science Blogs Neuron Culture’s Top Ten of 2012 Top Dot Physics Posts of 2012 Dumb Poisoners : A Year-End Appreciation Entertainment Underwire How Real Navy SEALs Would

  • Swarms of Tiny Galaxies Found Bursting with Star Creation

    Updated: 2012-12-21 16:41:18
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Genetic Phenomenon Found that Creates Differences Between Species Main December 21, 2012 Swarms of Tiny Galaxies Found Bursting with Star Creation In2011, using its infrared vision to peer nine billion years back in time , the NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope uncovered an extraordinary population of tiny , young galaxies that are vibrant with star formation . The galaxies are churning out stars at such a rate that the number of stars in them would double in just ten million years . For comparison , the Milky Way has taken a thousand times longer to double its stellar . population These newly discovered dwarf galaxies are around a hundred times smaller than the Milky Way . Their star formation rates are

  • "We're on the Threshold of Unraveling the Biggest Mystery in Modern Physics" --World's Dark-Matter Cosmologists

    Updated: 2012-12-20 20:20:15
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy EcoAlert : Strong Link Between Climate Change and Volcanic Eruptions Discovered Main December 20, 2012 We're on the Threshold of Unraveling the Biggest Mystery in Modern Physics World's Dark-Matter Cosmologists Dark matter makes up about 23 percent of the mass-energy content of the universe , even though we don’t know what it is or have yet to directly see it which is why it’s called dark” So how can we detect it and when we do , what will it reveal about the universe In mid-October , more than 100 cosmologists , particle physicists and astrophysicists gathered for a meeting called Dark Matter Universe : On the Threshold of Discovery at the National Academy of Sciences’ Beckman Center in Irvine , CA .

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Cygnus Loop Filaments

    Updated: 2012-12-20 18:36:31
    WIRED Gear Gadget Lab Year in Apps : The Biggest Hits , Misses and Absolute Fails of 2013 Facebook Shares Fall Briefly Amid Report of Instagram Quitters Wired’ s Great In-Flight Wi-Fi Speed Test Autopia Crowdsourced BMW Prototypes Light the Street , Call for Help Bridge Design Defect Drops Ice on Canadian Motorists Bluetooth Tracking Can Predict the Length of Your Commute Hell Reviews Spin Art Earphones Made for the Dancefloor Mojitos in the Mist Science Science Wired Science Space Photo of the Day : Great Lakes of Titan Wired Science’s Top Image Galleries of the Year Wired Science Space Photo of the Day : Hidden Flames Science Blogs Neuron Culture’s Top Ten of 2012 Top Dot Physics Posts of 2012 Dumb Poisoners : A Year-End Appreciation Entertainment Underwire How Real Navy SEALs Would

  • AMIG Spring Meeting 2013

    Updated: 2012-12-20 00:00:00
    Conference: 20 Mar 2013 - 21 Mar 2013, National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM), Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Organized by IOP Atmoic Molecular Interactions Group.

  • 27th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics

    Updated: 2012-12-20 00:00:00
    Conference: 8 Dec 2013 - 13 Dec 2013, Dallas, TX, United States.

  • Observables in a lattice Universe: the cosmological fitting problem

    Updated: 2012-12-19 21:00:47
    : . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 30, Number 2 Observables in a lattice Universe : the cosmological fitting problem Authors : Bruneton , Jean-Philippe Larena , Julien : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 30, Number 2, 21 January 2013 pp . 25002-25020(19 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 46.17 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We explore observables in a lattice Universe described by a recently found solution to Einstein field equations . This

  • Gravity localization in a string-cigar braneworld

    Updated: 2012-12-19 21:00:46
    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 30, Number 2 Gravity localization in a string-cigar braneworld Authors : Silva , Jose Euclides G . Santos , Victor Almeida , . C.A.S : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 30, Number 2, 21 January 2013 pp . 25005-25021(17 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 46.17 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We proposed a six-dimensional string-like braneworld built from a warped product between a 3-brane and the Hamilton cigar soliton

  • Primordial gravitational wave enhancement

    Updated: 2012-12-19 21:00:46
    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 30, Number 2 Primordial gravitational wave enhancement Authors : Romania , Maria G . Tsamis , N.C . Woodard , . R.P : Source Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 30, Number 2, 21 January 2013 pp . 25004-25020(17 Publisher : IOP Publishing view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article OR Pressing the buy now button more than once may result in multiple purchases Price : 46.17 plus tax Refund Policy : Abstract We reconsider the enhancement of primordial gravitational waves that arises from a quantum gravitational model of inflation . A distinctive

  • Ten Toys That You Won’t Mind Buying

    Updated: 2012-12-19 19:16:17
    If you’ve ever had to shop for kids toys, you know it can be a demoralizing experience. Rows and rows of schlock, organized in alternating rows of “pink” or “camo”, anchored to their boxes by 43 twist ties, reeking of child labor and waste.  (Can you guess how much I like shopping?) To help you [...]

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Back-Lit Saturn

    Updated: 2012-12-19 18:59:08
    WIRED Gear Gadget Lab Year in Apps : The Biggest Hits , Misses and Absolute Fails of 2013 Facebook Shares Fall Briefly Amid Report of Instagram Quitters Wired’ s Great In-Flight Wi-Fi Speed Test Autopia Crowdsourced BMW Prototypes Light the Street , Call for Help Bridge Design Defect Drops Ice on Canadian Motorists Bluetooth Tracking Can Predict the Length of Your Commute Hell Reviews Spin Art Earphones Made for the Dancefloor Mojitos in the Mist Science Science Wired Science Space Photo of the Day : Great Lakes of Titan Wired Science’s Top Image Galleries of the Year Wired Science Space Photo of the Day : Hidden Flames Science Blogs Neuron Culture’s Top Ten of 2012 Top Dot Physics Posts of 2012 Dumb Poisoners : A Year-End Appreciation Entertainment Underwire How Real Navy SEALs Would

  • Astronomers Zoom in on Stars Orbiting Milky Way's Center

    Updated: 2012-12-19 17:20:55
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Getting Closer : Habitable Planet May Be 12 Light Years Away Orbiting Tau Ceti Main December 19, 2012 Astronomers Zoom in on Stars Orbiting Milky Way's Center Scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III SDSS-III have announced the discovery of hundreds of stars rapidly moving together in long , looping orbits around the center of our Galaxy . The best explanation for their orbits is that these stars are part of the Milky Way bar , quot says David Nidever , a Dean B . McLaughin Fellow in the Astronomy Department at the University of Michigan . We know that the bar plays an important role in determining the structure of the Galaxy , so learning more about these stars will help us understand the whole

  • Getting Closer: Habitable Planet May Be 12 Light Years Away Orbiting Tau Ceti

    Updated: 2012-12-19 17:15:00
    : : The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Humans May be the First Generation of Advanced Life in the Milky Way Today's Most Popular Main Astronomers Zoom in on Stars Orbiting Milky Way's Center December 19, 2012 Getting Closer : Habitable Planet May Be 12 Light Years Away Orbiting Tau Ceti We're getting closer An international team of astronomers has discovered that Tau Ceti one of the closest and most Sun-like stars image above may host five planets , including one in the star's habitable zone Goldilocks Zone At a distance of twelve light years from Earth and visible to the naked eye in the evening sky , Tau Ceti is the closest single star that has the same spectral classification as our Sun . Its five planets are estimated to have masses

  • US-CERN partnership to accelerate neutrino research

    Updated: 2012-12-19 15:42:07
    A new partnership between scientists from US institutions and CERN could improve results from neutrino experiments around the world. The scientists hope to use equipment at CERN to gain a more precise understanding of the process of creating a neutrino beam.

  • International Workshop on Advances in Quantum Chaotic Scattering: From (Non-)Linear Waves to Few-Body Systems

    Updated: 2012-12-19 00:00:00
    Workshop: 9 Sep 2013 - 13 Sep 2013, Dresden, Germany. Organized by R. Ketzmerick, U. Peschel, K. Richter, P. Schlagheck.

  • Uwingu for the holidays Local Group Astronomy Astronomy Community

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  • Uwingu for the holidays Local Group Astronomy Astronomy Community

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  • From Super to Ultra: Just How Big Can Black Holes Get?

    Updated: 2012-12-18 05:00:00
    Some of the biggest black holes in the Universe may actually be even bigger than previously thought, according to a study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

  • Does This Trampoline Violate the Laws of Physics?

    Updated: 2012-12-17 11:46:30
    Late last week, I ran across a spectacular video of a man being completely awesome: The video shows Christophe Hamel jumping/falling/hurtling off of walls, landing on a trampoline, and then bouncing up to land back on top of the wall — sometimes in a handstand in case there was a risk you wouldn’t be impressed [...]

  • 16th International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics

    Updated: 2012-12-17 00:00:00
    Conference: 22 Sep 2013 - 26 Sep 2013, Madison, WI, United States.

  • The particle at the end of the Universe

    Updated: 2012-12-17 00:00:00
    Lecture/talk: 15 Jan 2013, United Kingdom. Organized by The Royal Institution.

  • Our dynamic Sun

    Updated: 2012-12-17 00:00:00
    Lecture/talk: 26 Apr 2013, United Kingdom. Organized by The Royal Institution.

  • Quantum life: how physics can revolutionise biology

    Updated: 2012-12-17 00:00:00
    Lecture/talk: 25 Jan 2013, United Kingdom. Organized by The Royal Institution.

  • The quantum Universe

    Updated: 2012-12-17 00:00:00
    Lecture/talk: 24 Apr 2013, United Kingdom. Organized by The Royal Institution.

  • Ironing out an astrophysics problem

    Updated: 2012-12-14 00:00:00
    Space telescopes have greatly advanced our understanding of the universe, but they have also surfaced some new and puzzling problems. Recently scientists gained insight into a mismatch between theory and observation uncovered by space telescope research by using a ground-based X-ray technology that grew out of particle physics.

  • PETER Conference 2013

    Updated: 2012-12-14 00:00:00
    Conference: 18 Feb 2013 - 19 Feb 2013, London, United Kingdom. Organized by Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College London.

  • Advances in Photovoltaics

    Updated: 2012-12-14 00:00:00
    Conference: 24 Sep 2013, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT, United Kingdom. Organized by IOP Ion and Plasma Surface Interactions Group.

  • A Moon With a View

    Updated: 2012-12-13 21:34:01
    This weekend the Seattle Times published a lovely interview with Bill Anders, one of the Apollo astronauts.  The article is full of interesting little tidbits, but I was most taken with his description of taking photos while his capsule orbited the moon: While he had been meticulously trained to photograph the moon, making pretty pictures [...]

  • Revealing Hidden Black Holes

    Updated: 2012-12-13 05:00:00
    This composite image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3627, located about 30 million light years from Earth.

  • Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin Films

    Updated: 2012-12-13 00:00:00
    Conference: 12 Jun 2013, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT, United Kingdom. Organized by IOP Ion and Plasma Surface Interactions Group.

  • Cosmic Adventures Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-12-12 20:22:24
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  • DOE grants CD-1 approval to LBNE project

    Updated: 2012-12-12 16:11:23
    The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment achieved a significant milestone this week. The US Department of Energy on Monday granted Critical Decision 1 approval to the first phase of LBNE, which includes construction of a beamline at Fermilab and a near-surface far detector at the Sanford Lab in Lead, South Dakota. One of the largest proposed neutrino experiments in the world, LBNE will send neutrinos generated at Fermilab through 800 miles of earth to the South Dakota detector.

  • The 7th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (Metamaterials 2013)

    Updated: 2012-12-12 00:00:00
    Conference: 16 Sep 2013 - 21 Sep 2013, Bordeaux, France. Organized by Metamorphose Virtual Institute.

  • UK-China workshop on the chemistry and physics of functional materials

    Updated: 2012-12-12 00:00:00
    Conference: 28 Jan 2013 - 29 Jan 2013, Chicheley, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. Organized by The Royal Society.

  • Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes Higgs hunters

    Updated: 2012-12-11 17:29:23
    Many have speculated about which theorists the Nobel Committee might honor for the prediction of the Higgs boson, but it was the experimentalists involved in the search for the particle who received recognition today. 

  • Decay channel

    Updated: 2012-12-11 16:07:37
    Decay channels are the possible transformations a particle can undergo as it decays. When a particle decays, it does not break into smaller bits; its energy does. Even fundamental particles—so named because they are the basic building blocks of matter that cannot be broken into smaller parts—can decay. Many particles in the Standard Model exist for only a limited time before decaying. When a particle decays, it transforms into collections of less massive particles whose combined energy adds up to the energy of the original particle.

  • Eyes on Andromeda

    Updated: 2012-12-11 10:30:46
    The practice of astronomy is different than it used to be. Back in the day, the image was of the lone astronomer, sitting at their telescope, communing with the universe.  Over time, we got more use to the idea that maybe groups of astronomers might come together to work on a common project.  But still, [...]

  • Uwingu

    Updated: 2012-12-11 02:33:24
    About Uwingu Who We Are Contact Us Our Sponsors Donate Uwingu In The Media Read What Astronomers and Others Are Saying The Uwingu Fund Currently Funded Projects Blog Resources About Naming Planets About Voting on Planet Names Uwingu Videos YouTube FAQ Pricing Educate For Grant Applicants For the Press Buy Gifts Navigation My Cart Checkout Login Register 721 nominations and counting Welcome to Uwingu Uwingu means sky . It also means new possibilities for you to connect to the cosmos Join with us to create the first baby book of names for the billions of planets in our galaxy By participating , you’ll help fund space exploration , scientific research , and education Nominating Planet Names Voting on Nominated Names Read What Astronomers Are Saying Working in Partnership : with Number of

  • This Week’s Hype

    Updated: 2012-12-10 20:45:29
    Space.com has a new story entitled Space Bursts Provide Insight to Theory of Everything, which has been picked up elsewhere as “evidence for string theory”. For instance Physicists Find New Evidence Of A ‘Theory Of Everything’ In The Wreckage Of … Continue reading →

  • Budget woes force rethink of proposed flagship physics experiment in Italy

    Updated: 2012-12-06 16:33:36
    In its infancy, the universe was made of nearly equal parts matter and antimatter. Yet matter overwhelmingly dominates today. Scientists design experiments that examine the conditions of the early universe to investigate why. An international collaboration of scientists proposed to build one such project, a particle collider that would specialize in creating B mesons, in Italy over the next several years. However, last week the Italian government withdrew funding for the project, citing the country's weakened economic state.

  • Transition

    Updated: 2012-12-06 13:00:26
    This isn’t an easy post to write, but it’s time for me to leave Cosmic Variance and Discover and go back to blogging on my own. It’s a move I’ve been contemplating for a long time, essentially unrelated to the recent website update here. After having blogged for many years, I’ve decided that I’m happiest [...]

  • Forty Years of String Theory

    Updated: 2012-12-06 03:08:08
    The journal Foundations of Physics has been promising a special issue on “Forty Years of String Theory: Reflecting on the Foundations” for quite a while now, with a contribution first appearing back when it really was 40 years since the … Continue reading →

  • Dave Brubeck

    Updated: 2012-12-05 17:40:34
    Dave Brubeck, an innovative and influential jazz pianist over many years, has died at the age of 91. Based in California, he was a leader of so-called West Coast Jazz, bringing a spirit of experimentation to a part of the jazz world that had been resolutely mainstream. Brubeck loved to experiment with unusual time signatures, [...]

  • Scientists propose new projects to unravel dark energy secrets

    Updated: 2012-12-05 17:39:38
    About 5 billion years ago the universe underwent a crucial transition. The gravitational tug that pulled together the matter in the universe was overwhelmed by a different, repulsive phenomenon. As a result, the universe began to expand at an accelerating rate. Scientists have given that phenomenon a name: dark energy. However, they can say with confidence only what it does, not what it is, where it comes from, or why it’s pushing galaxies apart at an ever more rapid speed.

  • Easy-to-find objects in the 2012 2013 winter sky Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-12-05 08:01:14
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  • Watching the Wind

    Updated: 2012-12-04 19:46:25
    Ever since discovering Richard Long‘s work back in the 80′s, I’ve been incredibly drawn to land art of various forms.  Most work of this type tends to be fairly static, but I recently ran across some pieces that I found mesmerizing, in their capturing and visualizing wind.  (Strictly, these don’t meet the definition of “land [...]

  • Complex simulations: a driving force for LSST

    Updated: 2012-12-04 00:00:00
    Almost a decade remains before the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope sees first light, and construction has yet to begin on most of the telescope’s hardware. Even so, astrophysicists are already developing methods for analyzing the rush of data LSST will produce. In a survey this large and this advanced, data management is just as important as cameras and mirrors.

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