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Looking Back 13.8 Billion Years: The countdown for Planck satellite has started

The Planck satellite is set to eavesdrop with hitherto unsurpassed precision on the echo of the Big Bang, thereby providing a sharp image of the infancy of the Universe. The satellite is due to be launched ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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Astronomers fret over Webb Telescope's future

Congressional wrangling over the future of the overdue, over-budget James Webb Space Telescope has split astronomers in a struggle over billions in funding.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Could the Higgs boson explain the size of the Universe?

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Universe wouldn't be the same without the Higgs boson. This legendary particle plays a role in cosmology and reveals the possible existence of another closely related particle.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (25) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Reverence for the heavens

For some, the contemplation of the cosmos is a religious experience. Vatican astronomers say this can lead to profound insights about ourselves and the nature of the universe.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 14, 2011 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (15) | comments 28

Procter & Gamble moves from soap operas to tweets

(AP) -- Goodbye, "Guiding Light." Hello, YouTube.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Particle collision thought to replicate Big Bang forces, may help explain how things exist

By the logic of science, things simply shouldn't exist. The best scientific minds of several generations have reasoned that shortly after the Big Bang created the universe, matter and antimatter should have wiped each other ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (22) | comments 30

Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots

A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Listening for Gravitational Echoes of the Universe's Birth

(PhysOrg.com) -- An investigation by a major scientific group has advanced understanding of the early evolution of the universe.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (24) | comments 66

The cosmic comic: Riding early waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fundamental research in cosmology continues to disclose ever more mysteries of the first millennia of the universe. More detailed knowledge will be delivered by the recently launched Planck ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

How do we support today’s Einsteins?

Is today's academic and corporate culture stifling science’s risk-takers and stopping disruptive, revolutionary science from coming to the fore? In April’s Physics World the science writer Mark Buchanan looks at those who ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Census of modern organisms reveals echo of ancient mass extinction

Paleontologists can still hear the echo of the death knell that drove the dinosaurs and many other organisms to extinction following an asteroid collision at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 0


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