Right in time for the festive season, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has discovered a huge cloud of high-temperature gas resting in a spectacular nearby star-forming region, shaped somewhat like the silhouette of Santa ...
Astronomy
Nov 30, 2007
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Some meteorologists say the National Hurricane Center is giving out more storm names, which can mean higher costs for homeowners.
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2007
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A Swedish hemp farmer was given an environmental prize in his local community for his efforts to fight a ban on the growing of industrial hemp.
Environment
Nov 30, 2007
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The head of the Texas Education Agency's science curriculum alleges she was forced to resign because of a memo about a talk on intelligent design.
Other
Nov 30, 2007
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It can crush ice sideways and stay precisely on station to an accuracy of a metre. It can drill a hole 1,000 metres deep into the seabed while floating above 5,000 metres of ocean and it can generate 55 megawatts of power. ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2007
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Three new giant underground particle detectors have been proposed for construction in Europe that could help achieve some major milestones in physics, such as verifying the decay of a proton, which has been theorized but ...
Under an atomic force microscope, the tiny structures look like fragments of nanoscopic pearl necklaces. In reality, the “pearls” are fullerene molecules that are linked together by means of a special fullerene-binding ...
Nanophysics
Nov 30, 2007
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Three quarters of our universe is made up of some weird, gravitationally repulsive substance that was only discovered ten years ago – dark energy. This month in Physics World, Eric Linder and Saul Perlmutter, both at the ...
General Physics
Nov 30, 2007
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