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Primordial beryllium could reveal insights into the Big Bang

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some chemical elements appear much more abundantly in nature than others, which is partly due to how the elements originally formed. Scientists know that the light elements (hydrogen, deuterium, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 16 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists demonstrate conditions for laser-driven fusion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, commercial nuclear power plants generate electricity using nuclear fission, in which an atom’s nucleus is split into lighter nuclei. But scientists are also researching the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 26 | with audio podcast report

Stars Fueled by Dark Matter Could Hold Secrets to the Universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first stars in the universe may have been very different from the stars we see today, yet they may hold clues to understanding some of the mysterious features of the universe. These "dark ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (58) | comments 44 feature

Ultra-cool companion helps reveal giant planets

(Phys.org) -- An international team of astronomers led by David Pinfield of the University of Hertfordshire has found a brown dwarf that is more than 99% hydrogen and helium. Described as ultra-cool, it has ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists see solution to critical barrier to fusion

(Phys.org) -- Physicists have discovered a possible solution to a mystery that has long baffled researchers working to harness fusion. If confirmed by experiment, the finding could help scientists eliminate ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (49) | comments 57 | with audio podcast

Nuclear fusion simulation shows high-gain energy output

(PhysOrg.com) -- High-gain nuclear fusion could be achieved in a preheated cylindrical container immersed in strong magnetic fields, according to a series of computer simulations performed at Sandia National ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (43) | comments 120 | with audio podcast

World's most powerful X-ray laser creates two-million-degree matter

Researchers working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to create and probe a two-million-degree piece of matter in a controlled way for the first time. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Our galaxy might hold thousands of ticking 'time bombs'

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the Hollywood blockbuster "Speed," a bomb on a bus is rigged to blow up if the bus slows down below 50 miles per hour. The premise - slow down and you explode - makes for a great action ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

The curious case of germanium-72: An unusual isotope changes phases as temperature rises

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's a lot we don't know about the atomic nucleus, even though it was discovered a century ago this year.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Hubble finds rare 'blue straggler' stars in Milky Way's hub

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a rare class of oddball stars called blue stragglers in the hub of our Milky Way, the first detected within our galaxy's bulge.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover the cause of irradiation-induced instability in materials surfaces

A new discovery about the dynamic impact of individual energetic particles into a solid surface improves our ability to predict surface stability or instability of materials under irradiation over time.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Overturned scientific explanation may be good news for nuclear fusion

Flat out wrong. That’s what a team of Duke researchers has discovered, much to its surprise, about a long-accepted explanation of how nuclei collide to produce charged particles for electricity – ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (39) | comments 49 | with audio podcast

Study reveals how fusion protein triggers cancer

What happens when two proteins join together? In this case, they become like a power couple, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Italian scientists claim to have demonstrated cold fusion (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Few areas of science are more controversial than cold fusion, the hypothetical near-room-temperature reaction in which two smaller nuclei join together to form a single larger nucleus while ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (158) | comments 298 | with audio podcast report

A step toward fusion power: MIT advance helps remove contaminants that slow fusion reactions

The long-sought goal of a practical fusion-power reactor has inched closer to reality with new experiments from MIT’s experimental Alcator C-Mod reactor, the highest-performance university-based fusion ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (39) | comments 34 | with audio podcast