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Neutrino data to flow in 2010; NOvA scientists tune design

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists may see data as soon as late summer from the prototype for a $278 million science experiment in northern Minnesota that is being designed to find clues to some fundamental mysteries ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 09, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction begins this month on a cutting-edge physics laboratory in northern Minnesota, supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 15




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Astronomers release unprecedented data set on celestial objects that brighten and dim

Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Arizona have released the largest data set ever collected that documents the brightening and dimming of stars and other ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Need a new material? New tool can help

Thanks to a new online toolkit developed at MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, any researcher who needs to find a material with specific properties — whether it’s to build a better ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Closest Type Ia supernova in decades solves a cosmic mystery

Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia's) are the extraordinarily bright and remarkably similar "standard candles" astronomers use to measure cosmic growth, a technique that in 1998 led to the discovery of dark energy ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 177 | with audio podcast

Online tool helps predict college costs

Choosing a college is one of the most important financial decisions that a teenager - and his or her parents - will ever make. But families that are going through the college-application process have usually had little in ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Entomologists begin to control winter moth infestation in eastern Massachusetts

A six-year campaign to control invasive winter moths with a natural parasite led by entomologist Joe Elkinton of the University of Massachusetts Amherst now has concrete evidence that a parasitic fly, Cyzenis ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA eyes two more Atlantic tropical cyclones while Irene drenches Canada

While the remnants of Hurricane Irene drench Quebec and Newfoundland, Canada today, NASA satellites are keeping tabs on two other tropical cyclones in the Atlantic: Tropical Storm Jose and newly formed Tropical ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Whimbrel successfully negotiates most severe part of Hurricane Irene

Scientists are tracking a migrating shorebird that appears to have survived flying through the most dangerous segment of Hurricane Irene.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Iowa State physicist to test next-generation neutrino detector for major experiment

Hundreds of physicists from around the world are making plans to shoot the world's most intense beam of neutrinos from Illinois, underground through Iowa, all the way to a former gold mine in South Dakota. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

YouTube chemistry sensations share formula for success

It started on an impulse, made unlikely YouTube stars of its scientific presenters and has grown to a global audience of more than 15 million.

Chemistry / Other

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hubble views the star that changed the universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, the discovery of a single variable star in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. And, at least one famous astronomer ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 51 | with audio podcast


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