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X-ray 'echoes' map a supermassive black hole's environs

(Phys.org) -- An international team of astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton satellite has identified a long-sought X-ray "echo" that promises a new way to probe supersized ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists set strongest limit on mass of dark matter

Brown University physicists have set the strongest limit for the mass of dark matter, the mysterious particles believed to make up nearly a quarter of the universe. The researchers report in Physical Review Le ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (12) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

Challenge theoretical models, Crab pulsar beams most energetic gamma rays ever detected from a pulsar

A thousand years ago, a brilliant beacon of light blazed in the sky, shining brightly enough to be seen even in daytime for almost a month. Native American and Chinese observers recorded the eye-catching event. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

Hints of universal behavior seen in exotic three-atom states

A novel type of inter-particle binding predicted in 1970 and observed for the first time in 2006, is forming the basis for an intriguing kind of ultracold quantum chemistry. Chilled to nano-kelvin temperatures, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Fermi telescope spots 'superflares' in the Crab Nebula (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any flare previously seen from the object. On April 12, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Thunderstorms hurling antimatter into space caught by Fermi (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Chevy Volt's official mileage: 93 mpg on electric

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) official mileage ratings of the Chevrolet Volt have been released and show the car will be capable of 93 "miles per gallon equivalent" when running ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 25, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (14) | comments 27 | with audio podcast report

Neutrino mass: 'Ghost particle' sized up by cosmologists

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cosmologists at UCL (University College London) are a step closer to determining the mass of the elusive neutrino particle, not by using a giant particle detector, but by gazing up into space.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider sets new record for beam energy -- 3.5 TeV

Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (27) | comments 18

How does the proton get its spin?

(PhysOrg.com) -- At a meeting this week of the American Physical Society in Washington, MIT Associate Professor of Physics Bernd Surrow reported on new results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (33) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Record-breaking LHC collisions offer first glimpse of physics at new energy frontier

(PhysOrg.com) -- In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (40) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

Atom smasher catches 1st high-energy collisions

(AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 27

A line on string theory

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Harvard theoretical physicist has discussed with scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland the possibility that they may discover a theorized "stau" particle, with a lifetime ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (47) | comments 15

Big Blue dreams of a big green battery

Spike Narayan watched a Tesla electric sports car rocket from zero to 60 mph (100 kph) in less than four seconds and knew batteries would be the next big thing.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (17) | comments 11

Fermi telescope explores new energy extremes

(PhysOrg.com) -- After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast