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Iowa State physicists beginning to see data from the Large Hadron Collider

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three Iowa State University physicists who took winter trips to the Large Hadron Collider for meetings and experimental work are starting to see real data from the planet's biggest science ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast




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Powerful pixels: Mapping the 'Apollo Zone'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Grayscale pixels – up close, they look like black, white or grey squares. But when you zoom out to see the bigger picture, they can create a digital photograph, like this one of our moon.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

NASA details achievements of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA has declared full mission success for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). As a result of the mission, LRO has changed our view of the entire moon and brought it into sharper focus with unprecedented ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Testing Mars missions in Morocco

“This site is called Moon 2,” says Gian Gabriele Ori of the International Research School of Planetary Sciences (IRSPS). He pauses, looks around, and then says with a laugh, “I don’t remember ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Mouse brain seen in sharpest detail ever

The most detailed magnetic resonance images ever obtained of a mammalian brain are now available to researchers in a free, online atlas of an ultra-high-resolution mouse brain, thanks to work at the Duke Center ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

World's largest particle collider may unlock secrets of universe

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, could generate astonishing new insights into the Big Bang, the building blocks of the universe, the mysterious ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (19) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Avalanche! The Incredible Data Stream of SDO

When NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) leaves Earth in November 2009 onboard an Atlas V rocket, the thunderous launch will trigger an avalanche.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

New Atlas to Reveal Landscape and Undiscovered Archeological Sites in 3-D

(PhysOrg.com) -- New methods developed at the University of Arkansas will make decades-old satellite imagery readily available to archeologists and others who need to know what a landscape looked like before ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 30, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The ATLAS Pixel Detector

With the Large Hadron Collider start-up only weeks away, SLAC researchers working on the LHC are feeling the excitement. SLAC has been involved in designing and building the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Edinburgh astronomers deliver 'origins' camera

Today the Science and Technology Facility Council’s UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh shipped its biggest and most complex ever instrument. The giant camera known as SCUBA-2 will be ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 21, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Complete Internet census taken -- perhaps the first since 1982

Researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, one of the birthplaces of the Internet decades ago, have just completed and plotted a comprehensive census of all of the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 09, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (41) | comments 0


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