News tagged with mirror symmetry

Chiral metal surfaces may help to manufacture pharmaceuticals

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research provides insight into novel approach which could be used in pharmaceutical drug synthesis.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Graduate's Belle experiment thesis published in Physical Review

Working together with other UH Manoa colleagues on the Belle experiment at the KEKB factory in Tsukuba, Japan, postdoctoral researcher Himansu Sahoo first reported the first observation of a new type of rare ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

The universe may have been born spinning, according to new findings on the symmetry of the cosmos

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists and astronomers have long believed that the universe has mirror symmetry, like a basketball. But recent findings from the University of Michigan suggest that the shape of the Big ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (37) | comments 82 | with audio podcast

Signs of dark matter may point to mirror matter candidate

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dark matter, which contains the "missing mass" that's needed to explain why galaxies stay together, could take any number of forms. The main possible candidates include MACHOS and WIMPS, but there is no shortage ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 27, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (41) | comments 28 | with audio podcast weblog

Particle physics study finds new data for extra Z-bosons and potential fifth force of nature

The Large Hadron Collider is an enormous particle accelerator whose 17-mile tunnel straddles the borders of France and Switzerland. A group of physicists at the University of Nevada, Reno has analyzed data from the accelerator ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 13