News tagged with anomalies
SBU researchers discover significant water anomaly
(Phys.org) -- A team of researchers from the Stony Brook University Department of Physics & Astronomy along with colleagues from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ...
May 10, 2012 |
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Why Does Water Expand When it Cools? A New Explanation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most of us, when we take our first science classes, learn that when things cool down, they shrink. (When they heat up, we learn, they usually expand.) However, water seems to be the exception ...
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Researchers suggest magnetic anomalies on the Moon are the result of asteroid collision
In the nearly five decades since the first lunar surveys were conducted as part of NASA's Apollo program, scientists have advanced a number of increasingly complex theories to explain the vast swaths of highly ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Study suggests precognition may be possible
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell University scientist has demonstrated that psi anomalies, more commonly known as precognition, premonitions or extra-sensory perception (ESP), really do exist at a statistically significant level. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Research team appears to solve the Pioneer anomaly
(Phys.org) -- Back in the early 70’s NASA launched two exploratory spacecraft, Pioneer 10 and 11. Their missions were to gather information about the solar system as they made their way through it by ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Researchers find strange new nanoregion can form in quasicrystals
A team of international researchers has discovered a new type of structural anomaly, or defect, that can appear in quasicrystals, a unique material with some crystal-like properties but a more complex structure.
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Researchers reveal the internal dance of water
(PhysOrg.com) -- Water is familiar to everyone - it shapes our bodies and our planet. But despite this abundance, the molecular structure of water has remained a mystery, with the substance exhibiting many ...
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Exoplanets Clue to Sun's Curious Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- A ground-breaking census of 500 stars, 70 of which are known to host planets, has successfully linked the long-standing "lithium mystery" observed in the Sun to the presence of planetary systems. ...
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Mystery force may be due to mirrors
Portuguese physicists report that they have identified the unknown force whose influence on outward bound interplanetary space probes has puzzled scientists since 1998. ...
May 05, 2011 |
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With climate and vegetation data, geographers closer to predicting droughts in Africa
What might happen if droughts were predicted months ahead of time? Food aid and other humanitarian efforts could be put together sooner and executed better, say UC Santa Barbara geographers Chris Funk, Greg ...
May 01, 2012 |
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New theory proposed to explain Pioneer probe gravitational anomaly
(PhysOrg.com) -- Portuguese physicists might have finally solved the decades old mystery of why the Pioneer probes, launched in the early 70’s, haven’t been decelerating from the Sun’s gravitational ...
Apr 27, 2011 |
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US looks for answers after hypersonic plane fails
Pentagon scientists on Friday acknowledged they were puzzled by the failed flight test of an experimental hypersonic plane and said they were trying to understand what went wrong. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 12, 2011 |
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Evolutionary reasons for believing in luck
How far will you go to avoid bad luck? Do you avoid walking under ladders, carry lucky charms, or perhaps instead perform special rituals before important meetings or sporting events?
Jun 07, 2011 |
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Magnetic anomalies shield the Moon
Scientists have discovered a new type of solar wind interaction with airless bodies in our solar system. Magnetized regions called magnetic anomalies, mostly on the far side of the Moon, were found to strongly ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Mars Orbiter in Safe Mode Increases Communication Rate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter project have stepped up the communication rate being received from the orbiter as an early step in the process of determining why the spacecraft ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 31, 2009 |
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