News tagged with cosmological mysteries

IceCube building goals exceeded at South Pole

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the 2008-09 Antarctic drilling season concludes, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is on track to be finished as planned in 2011.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1




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A new way to discover pulsars

(Phys.org) -- The Large Area Telescope (LAT), built by SLAC for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, collects information on high-energy gamma rays from numerous sources in the sky. Among these are small, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries

Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (87) | comments 254 | with audio podcast

WiggleZ project reaches new heights in measuring neutrino mass

The lightest known subatomic particles in the Universe are now able to be more accurately scrutinised, in light of new astronomic research two years in the making.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Searching for the elusive Higgs Particle

The world of physics has its mysteries, but one of its biggest—whether the elusive Higgs boson actually exists—is closer to a resolution, of sorts.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 15

New Domain: International team installs first of three telescopes in Antarctica

A team of scientists representing several international institutions, including Texas A&M University, has succeeded in installing the first of three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3-1) at the Chinese Kunlun ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The earth is not at rest

(Phys.org) -- The Earth is not at rest. It orbits the Sun, which in turn orbits the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, which in turn moves within the Local Group of Galaxies - a collection of about fifty four ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Magnetic fields can send particles to infinity

Researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain) have mathematically shown that particles charged in a magnetic field can escape into infinity without ever stopping. One of the conditions ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (26) | comments 42 | with audio podcast

New KIPAC tool gives scientists a closer look at merging galaxies

(Phys.org) -- Scientists at SLAC’s Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) have created sophisticated computer simulations that show galaxy mergers in much more detail than ever ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

First-ever model simulation of the structuring of the observable universe

A team of researchers from the Laboratoire Univers et Theorie (France) coordinated by Jean-Michel Alimi has performed the first-ever computer model simulation of the structuring of the entire observable universe, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 44

WISE mission sees skies ablaze with blazars

(Phys.org) -- Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The ...

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created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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