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Physicists 'record' magnetic breakthrough

An international team of scientists has demonstrated a revolutionary new way of magnetic recording which will allow information to be processed hundreds of times faster than by current hard drive technology.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (46) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

IceCube: World's largest neutrino observatory completed at South Pole

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Saturday, December 18, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory sank the last of 86 strings of sensitive photodetectors to a depth of almost two and a half kilometers in the ice at the South Pole, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (30) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Crossing the icy unknown, hunting climate clues

(AP) -- On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'd never heard in two decades on the ice.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Super-Sensors to Measure 'Signature' of Inflationary Universe (w/Video)

What happened in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? Super-sensitive microwave detectors, built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, may soon ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (27) | comments 8

Ghosts of the future: First giant structures of the universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope report that they have discovered the most massive galaxy cluster yet seen at a distance of 7 billion light-years. The cluster (designated SPT-CL ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Ice cores yield rich history of climate change

On Friday, Jan. 28 in Antarctica, a research team investigating the last 100,000 years of Earth's climate history reached an important milestone completing the main ice core to a depth of 3,331 meters (10,928 ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 37 | with audio podcast

Ripples in the cosmic background

(PhysOrg.com) -- The universe was created 13.73 billion years ago in a blaze of light -- the big bang. We also think that, about 380,000 years later, after matter (mostly hydrogen atoms) had cooled enough ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

The most massive distant object known

(PhysOrg.com) -- Galaxies often occur in groups. Our own Milky Way galaxy, for example, and its local neighborhood with about fifty galaxies are at the edge of the Virgo Cluster, a collection of somewhere ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 61 | with audio podcast

Is it snowing microbes on Enceladus?

There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe -- just maybe -- microbes.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

South Pole Telescope hones in on dark energy, neutrinos

Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy — the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for the ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

NASA's Dawn spacecraft beams back new photo

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dawn took this image during its current orbit of Vesta, traveling from the day side to the night side.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

New study links ozone hole to climate change all the way to the equator

In a study to be published in the April 21st issue of Science magazine, researchers at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science report their findings that the ozone hole, which is located over the So ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (13) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Earth from Space: Icebreaker event

(PhysOrg.com) -- This animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97-km long B-9B iceberg (right) ramming into the Mertz Glacier Tongue in Eastern Antarctica in early February. The collision ...

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created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 6

The shape-shifting southern vortex of Venus

(PhysOrg.com) -- New analysis of images taken by ESA's Venus Express orbiter has revealed surprising details about the remarkable, shape-shifting collar of clouds that swirls around the planet's South Pole. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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New map of cosmic rays in the Southern sky presented at physics meeting

For the first time, scientists have an almost complete sky map of high-energy cosmic rays.

Physics / General Physics

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

South Pole

Coordinates: 90°S 0°W / 90°S 0°W / -90; -0

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole. Situated on the continent of Antarctica, it is the site of the United States Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, which was established in 1956 and has been permanently staffed since that year. The Geographic South Pole should not be confused with the South Magnetic Pole.

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