It is obvious from the data of the KASCADE-Grande experiment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) that the so-called "knee" of the cosmic rays, a bend in the energy spectrum at high energies, is ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jun 03, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 0 |

Researchers at the University of Southampton have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our Universe.

Physics - General Physics

May 30, 2013 4.3 / 5 (64) 64 |

(Phys.org) —Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment conducted by Vanderbilt physicist Julia Velkovska and her ...

Physics - General Physics

May 17, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 1 |

It is obvious from the data of the KASCADE-Grande experiment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) that the so-called "knee" of the cosmic rays, a bend in the energy spectrum at high energies, is ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

May 09, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

(Phys.org) —Mathematics is, in essence, an artificial language for precisely articulating theories about the physical world. Unlike natural language, however, translating different classes of mathematics ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Apr 29, 2013 4.8 / 5 (45) 38 |

The planet Earth will die – if not before, then when the Sun collapses. This is going to happen in approximately seven billion years. In the universe however the death of suns and planets is an everyday ...

Physics - General Physics

Jan 17, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 7

(Phys.org)—Former President Bill Clinton recently expressed his support for interstellar travel at the 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating for human expansion into other star ...

Physics - General Physics

Oct 09, 2012 4.6 / 5 (26) 23 |

(Phys.org) -- The start of the Universe should be modeled not as a Big Bang but more like water freezing into ice, according to a team of theoretical physicists at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University.

Physics - General Physics

Aug 20, 2012 3.4 / 5 (29) 100 |

(Phys.org) -- Gamma-ray photons seen emanating from the center of the Milky Way galaxy are consistent with the intriguing possibility that dark-matter particles are annihilating each other in space, according to research ...

Physics - General Physics

Aug 13, 2012 3.3 / 5 (11) 18 |

Each century, about two massive stars in our own galaxy explode, producing magnificent supernovae. These stellar explosions send fundamental, uncharged particles called neutrinos streaming our way and generate ...

Physics - General Physics

Jul 12, 2012 5 / 5 (6) 10 |

Long distance space travel could create the ultimate 'killer entrance', devastating your destination and anything around the arriving spacecraft, according to calculations by Professor Geraint Lewis and two ...

Physics - General Physics

Mar 12, 2012 3.8 / 5 (24) 34 |