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Physicists propose mechanism that explains the origins of both dark matter and 'normal' matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Through precise cosmological measurements, scientists know that about 4.6% of the energy of the Universe is made of baryonic matter (normal atoms), about 23% is made of dark matter, and the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 10, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (52) | comments 70 | with audio podcast feature

Study finds there may be multiple 'God particles'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research in the US suggests there may be five versions of the theorized Higgs boson.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (40) | comments 110 | with audio podcast report

A revolution in knot theory

In the 19th century, Lord Kelvin made the inspired guess that elements are knots in the "ether". Hydrogen would be one kind of knot, oxygen a different kind of knot---and so forth throughout the periodic table ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 21 | with audio podcast

Could dark baryons explain dark matter?

(PhysOrg.com) -- "The prevailing belief about dark matter particles is that they should be about 100 or more times heavier than protons," Subir Sarkar tells PhysOrg.com. "However, we were thinking about the possibility of lig ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 18 | with audio podcast feature

Sun's dark matter trap

The Sun could be the best place to look for dark matter - the invisible ‘stuff’ that is thought to make up about 83% of the matter in the Universe.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Physicists find charge separation in a molecule consisting of two identical atoms

Physicists from the University of Stuttgart show the first experimental proof of a molecule consisting of two identical atoms that exhibits a permanent electric dipole moment. This observation contradicts ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

H3+: The molecule that made the Universe

(Phys.org) -- In a study that pushed quantum mechanical theory and research capabilities to the limit, University of Arizona researchers have found a way to see the molecule that likely made the universe - ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Neanderthal Lacked Anatomical Competitive Edge: Skeletal Remains Tell the Story

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of the skeletal fossils of Neanderthal and Early modern man suggest the lack of a "throwing arm" may have made the difference in human evolution. Researchers Jill A. Rhodes and ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 20 weblog

UBC physicists make atoms and dark matter add up

Physicists at the University of British Columbia and TRIUMF have proposed a unified explanation for dark matter and the so-called baryon asymmetry -- the apparent imbalance of matter with positive baryon charge and antimatter ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Researchers offer alternate theory for found skull's asymmetry

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new turn in the debate over explanations for the odd features of LB1 -- the specimen number of the only skull found in Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of Flores and sometimes called "the hobbit" ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 06, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Physicist finds colder isn't always slower as electron emissions increase at temps to -452 F

(PhysOrg.com) -- Science is detective work so it was not unexpected that new questions would follow old ones as Indiana University Bloomington nuclear physicist Hans-Otto Meyer's work progressed on testing ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

CERN's LHCb experiment takes precision physics to a new level

(PhysOrg.com) -- Results presented by CERN1's LHCb experiment at the biennial Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India on Saturday 27 August are becoming the most precise yet on particles called B mesons, which provide a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Game of two halves leads to brain asymmetry

A tug-of-war between the two sides of the brain causes it to become asymmetrical, according to research published today in the journal Neuron. Asymmetry in the brain is thought to be important to enable the two hemispheres to spe ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Right/left handedness of snails changed in the lab

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like most animals, snails have either left- or right-handed asymmetry (chirality), both internally and externally, and the handedness is hereditary. A new study has for the first time found ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2 weblog

Asymmetry

Asymmetry is the absence of, or a violation of, a symmetry.

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