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Making a Point: Picoscale Stability in a Room-Temperature AFM

(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget dancing angels, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) has shown how to detect and monitor the tiny amount ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (40) | comments 1

Mars explorer says we'll find life on other planets within 10 years

Within 10 years, we'll find life outside Earth -- that's the prediction of Peter Smith, the University of Arizona professor who led NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (44) | comments 11

A big surprise from the edge of the solar system: magnetic bubbles (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (35) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

New super strong alloy discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- International team of researchers has discovered a new super-strength light alloy and had their key findings published in Nature Communications.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (41) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Gravity Probe B confirms two Einstein theories

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford and NASA researchers have confirmed two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, concluding one of the space agency's longest-running projects.

Physics / General Physics

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 86 | with audio podcast

Voyager set to enter interstellar space

(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system. Not only that, they're still working. And with each passing day they are beaming ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 29, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Deep Impact, Moon Mineralogy Mapper find clear evidence of water on moon

New data from the Deep Impact spacecraft and the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), an instrument aboard India's recently ended Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, provide, for the first time, clear evidence that water exists ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 17

Future NASA mission to sun 'a life's dream' for some

The chest-high rack of electronics Justin Kasper is assembling in a Massachusetts office park will fit in a shoe box before he's done.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 10

Japanese asteroid probe returns to Earth (Update)

A Japanese space probe which scientists hope contains material from the surface of an asteroid returned to Earth on Sunday, Japan's space agency JAXA said, landing in the remote Australian outback.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 2

Northwestern research team turns theory of static electricity on its head

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bartosz Grzybowski, a physical chemist at Northwestern University, and his team of colleagues offer evidence in a paper published in Science, that shows that what scientists have believed to be ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 31 | with audio podcast report

NASA studying ways to make 'tractor beams' a reality

Tractor beams -- the ability to trap and move objects using laser light -- are the stuff of science fiction, but a team of NASA scientists has won funding to study the concept for remotely capturing planetary ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 38 | with audio podcast

Mystery force may be due to mirrors

Portuguese physicists report that they have identified the unknown force whose influence on outward bound interplanetary space probes has puzzled scientists since 1998. ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Fuel for deep space exploration running on empty

(AP) -- NASA is running out of nuclear fuel needed for its deep space exploration.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 12

China's second lunar probe enters moon orbit: media

China's second lunar probe entered the moon's orbit on Saturday, eight days after the Long March 3C rocket carrying the Chang'e-2 blasted off from the launch centre, state media reported.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 09, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 9

Japanese space probe Hayabusa close to home

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hayabusa, the Japanese space probe launched in 2003, is returning home from its five-billion-kilometer round-trip journey to collect samples from the asteroid 25143 Itokawa.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report